Title: Tire truing machine

Abstract: A tire truing machine that has a continuously orbiting band saw moving across a tool guide that has a plurality of adjustable guide members that can be shaped to the profile of the tire to be trued or contoured to a preexisting cam profile with the cumulative guide members defining an arcuately shaped recess or guide which positions the cutting edge of a band saw adjacent to the tread of a pneumatic tire in a precise profile control. The tire is chucked and rotated as the band saw operates on the tread surface or portions thereof to the profile set or adjusted.

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Inventors: Kuts, Mathew (Akron, OH, US)

Application Number: 551891
Filing Date: 1975-02-21
Publication_date: 1976-03-16
Assignee: The B. F. Goodrich Company (Akron, OH)
Primary Class(es): 82/49 82/100, 82/101, 157/13
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US Patent Ref:

2121062	Jun, 1938	Vincke	82/49.
2986205	May, 1961	Okerstrom	157/13.
3584673	Jun, 1971	Lehman	157/13.
3604084	Sep, 1971	Krieger et al.	157/13.

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Primary Examiner: Vlachos, Leonidas
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Januszkiewicz; Joseph, Shira, Jr.; W. A.