JPH1159516A - Tire installation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tire installation device capable of mounting front and rear wheel tires and also temporarily fixing a wheel hub nut easily and manually to a wheelbase while avoiding a heavy manual work. SOLUTION: A lifting base part 16 which is lifted drivingly by a lifting cylinder 18 along a frame 15 installed erectedly on a traveling base stand 10 is installed, a manually operated laterally moving table 20 is put on a rail in lateral direction, and a manually operated vertically moving stand 30 in which a pair of rollers 32 which move in longitudinal direction and support a tire 5 during a separation from each other is put on a rail installed on the laterally moving stand in longitudinal direction. Also the base end part of a tire loading stand 43 formed in L-shape with the wall surface of its top end part is supported pivotally on a supporting frame installed erectedly on the traveling base stand 10, and an air cylinder 45 which rotates the tire loading stand 43 through a distance from a slant lower storing position to a slant upper retrieval position is attached to the tire loading stand 43. Then a manually operated switch 51 to fine adjust the lifting position of the lifting cylinder 18 is attached to the lifting cylinder 18.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tire mounting method for mounting a tire supplied from a tire supply device on a wheel base of an automobile body, the tire traveling in a front-rear direction at front and rear wheel positions along the automobile body. It concerns the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When mounting a tire on a wheel base, the height of a traveling vehicle that moves up and down with an air cylinder is adjusted with a foot switch, the center of the tire is aligned with a hub bolt with one hand, and the other hand is used with the other hand. The nut was temporarily tightened.

[0003]

Therefore, adjusting the position of the tire in the front-rear direction and in the width direction of the vehicle requires heavy work.
The work posture was poor and the alignment was difficult. In addition, the efficiency of tire loading work is not good because one tire is mounted on the truck.

In view of the above, the present invention can mount two tires for a front wheel and a rear wheel, and can temporarily and manually tighten a wheel hub nut to a wheel base easily without heavy work. It is an object of the invention to provide a tire mounting device of the kind mentioned at the outset.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a vehicle body for mounting a tire supplied from a tire supply device on a wheel base of the vehicle body. In a tire mounting device that travels in the front-rear direction at front and rear wheel positions along a traveling base on a rail along an automobile body, a lifting cylinder along a guide frame erected on the traveling base. In addition to providing a lifting base that is driven up and down by a vertical movement base, a horizontal moving table that moves in the vehicle width direction by manual operation is mounted on a rail provided in the vehicle width direction on the lifting base, and On a rail provided at a vertical moving table on which a pair of rollers that are moved in the front-rear direction by manual operation and support the tire while separating the tires from each other are arranged in the front-rear direction, The base end of the L-shaped tire mounting table formed by the wall surface of the front end portion and the front end of the existing vertical moving base is pivotally attached to a support frame erected on the traveling base. At the same time, an actuator for rotating the tire mounting table between a storage position at an obliquely lower position and an unloading position at an obliquely upper position for rolling in the tire onto the rollers is attached to the tire mounting table, and the elevating position of the actuator is adjusted by a lifting cylinder. A hand-operated switch for fine adjustment is attached.

[0006] In order to align the tire with the wheel base, the tire is finely adjusted in the front-rear direction and the width direction of the vehicle by manual operation of the horizontal moving table and the vertical moving table, and the height is finely adjusted by operating the switch. The second mounted tire is carried into the vertical moving table by rolling from the tire mounting table that has been rotated upward with the vertical moving table at the reference position.

According to the third aspect, the horizontal moving table and the vertical moving table can be exchanged up and down. According to the second or fourth aspect, in order to position the horizontal moving table and the vertical moving table at the reference position with a simple configuration, a cylinder is used in one direction and a cam is used in the other direction.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A tire mounting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. A traveling base 1 that travels along a rail 1 along an automobile body
0 has wheels 11 at four corners and a drive wheel 13 driven by a motor 12.

The traveling base is provided with an elevating base 16 which is driven up and down by an elevating air cylinder 18 along a guide frame 15 erected on the traveling base. On a rail 17 provided on the elevating base in the vehicle width direction, a horizontal moving table 20 which is moved in the vehicle width direction by manual operation is mounted by a slide member 21 provided on the back surface thereof. On the rail 22 provided in the front-rear direction on the horizontal moving table, the roller 22 is moved in the front-rear direction by manual operation, and
Are mounted on the vertical moving table 30 arranged in the front-rear direction. The pair of inner rollers 31 are separated from each other by a predetermined distance so as to support the tire 5 in the concave portion therebetween, and the pair of outer rollers 32 are for transporting the tire.

[0010] A support frame 4 erected on the traveling base 10 so as to be adjacent to the front of the vertical moving base 30 at the reference position.
The base end of a tire mounting table 40 formed in an L-shape with a wall surface 43 at the distal end of the tire mounting base 2 and having guide rollers 48 on both sides is pivotally mounted. Between the rear side of the tire mounting table and the running base 10, there is provided an actuator as an actuator for rotating the tire mounting table to a diagonally upper unloading position so as to roll the tire 5 from a storage position diagonally downward onto the roller 31. An air cylinder 45 and its cylinder rod 46 are pivotally mounted.

As shown in FIG. 2, a cam 37 having a triangular shape in the front-rear direction is provided on the back surface of the vertical moving base 30 near the vehicle body.
A protruding triangular concave driven surface 35 is provided. The cam 37 is provided at the tip of a support frame 38 erected on the traveling base 10, and when the vertical moving table 30 moves down to the reference position, the driven surface 35 is moved to the cam 37 by the notch 20 a of the horizontal moving table 20.
Automatically slides through and is set at the reference position in the front-rear direction. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, an air cylinder 27 is mounted on the elevating base 16 toward the automobile body, and an engaging portion 28 a provided at the tip of the cylinder rod 28 is provided on the rear surface of the horizontal moving base 20. Engaging projection 2 formed on
9 and is linked to the reference position in the vehicle width direction when the vehicle retreats. In the forward position of the cylinder rod 28, the horizontal moving table 20
Can be operated manually in the vehicle width direction.

A sequence control circuit 19 is attached to the motor drive circuit 12a of the motor 12 and the cylinder drive circuit 18a of the lift air cylinder 18, and a switch 51 for manually operating the lift base 16 at an upper position is provided in the cylinder drive circuit 18a. The motor drive circuit 12a has a switch 52 for manually operating the traveling.

When the motor 12 is driven forward by the switch 52 at the time when the loading of the tire is completed, the sequence control circuit 19 stops the rear wheel position, and the air cylinder 1
8 is slightly raised from the reference position to disengage the vertical moving table 30 from the cam 37, and the air cylinder 27 is driven forward to separate from the horizontal moving table 20 so as to be manually operable. After the rear wheel is mounted, when the motor 12 is driven forward by the switch 52, the motor 12 is stopped at the front wheel position. During the traveling, the air cylinder 1 is positioned so that the vertical moving table 30 is positioned at the reference position.
8 and 27 are moved to their original positions, and the air cylinder 45 is moved forward to carry the tire 5 from the tire mounting table 40. Further, the air cylinder 18 is driven upward from the reference position, and the air cylinder 27 is driven forward. After the rear wheels are mounted, the motor 12 is driven so as to return to the tire loading position by manual operation of the switch 52, and the air cylinders 18, 27, and 45 are operated to their original positions.

The operation of the thus-configured tire mounting device is as follows. The tire 5 is extruded from the rear along the rail 1 to the tire mounting table 40 and the vertical moving table 30 by the tire supply device and carried in. The traveling base 10 is moved to the rear wheel position, and the elevating base 16 is automatically slightly raised. The operator manually operates the horizontal moving base 20 and the vertical moving base 30, finely adjusts the tire 5 to a position corresponding to the wheel base center by operating the height of the switch 51, aligns the hub bolt, and adjusts one hand. Hold the tire with, and temporarily tighten the nut with the other hand. Next, when the vehicle is driven to the front wheel position, the tire 5 is carried in while the vertical moving table 30 is aligned with the tire mounting table 40 on the way, and the tire 5 is similarly manually mounted in a slightly raised state.

It is to be noted that, instead of the above-described embodiment, it is possible to exchange the horizontal moving table and the vertical moving table up and down. In this case, a roller is attached to the horizontal moving table, and the lower vertical moving table is connected to an air cylinder. To automatically position to the reference position. Also,
The horizontal moving table allows the horizontal moving table to be positioned at the reference position in the horizontal direction by the cam through the cutout of the vertical moving table without intentionally providing an actuator to the movable vertical moving table. It is also conceivable that the movement to these reference positions is performed by manual operation alone without providing the above-described cylinder and cam. When the tire supply device is carried in from the front, the tire mounting table may be pivotally attached to the rear end of the upper moving table.

[0016]

According to the first or third aspect of the present invention, the tire can be mounted in a three-dimensional direction by easy manual operation so as to avoid heavy muscle work and difficult work. Since two tires are mounted on the traveling vehicle, work efficiency is extremely advantageous.

According to the second or fourth aspect of the present invention, the second tire can be easily brought into the working position with a simple structure.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a tire mounting device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial sectional view of a vertical carriage of the tire mounting apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of a back surface of a lateral moving base of the tire mounting device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 5 tire 10 traveling base 16 elevating base 18 elevating air cylinder 20 horizontal moving base 30 vertical moving base 31 roller 40 tire mounting base

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A tire mounting device for running a tire supplied from a tire supply device on a wheel base of a vehicle body in a front-rear direction at front and rear wheel positions along the vehicle body. On the traveling base that runs along the rails along,
Along with a lifting frame that is driven up and down by a lifting cylinder along a guide frame erected on the traveling base,
On a rail provided in the vehicle width direction on this elevating base, a horizontal moving table that moves in the vehicle width direction by manual operation is placed, and on a rail provided in the front-rear direction on this horizontal moving table, A pair of rollers that move in the front-rear direction and support the tires while they are separated from each other are placed on a vertical carriage that is arranged in the front-rear direction, and at a longitudinal end of the vertical carriage at a reference position. Adjacently, the base end of the L-shaped tire mounting table formed with the wall surface of the distal end portion is pivotally connected to a support frame erected on the traveling base, and the tire mounting table is inclined downward. A manually operated type for attaching an actuator for rotating the storage position and an obliquely upper unloading position for rolling in the tire onto the roller to the tire mounting table, and finely adjusting the raising and lowering position to the lifting cylinder. Comes with a switch Tire mounting apparatus characterized by allowed. 2. A triangular cam is formed on the traveling base in the front-rear direction, and is engaged with the cam when descending so as to be positioned at a reference position in the front-rear direction. A driven surface is formed on the bottom surface of the vertical carriage, and when the vehicle is retracted, the cylinder rod is engaged with the back surface of the horizontal carriage to position the horizontal carriage at a reference position in the vehicle width direction, and in a forward state toward the vehicle body. 2. The tire mounting device according to claim 1, wherein an air cylinder detachable from the laterally movable base is provided on a lifting base. 3. A tire mounting apparatus for running a tire supplied from a tire supply device on a wheel base of an automobile body in a front-rear direction along front and rear wheel positions along the automobile body. On the traveling base that runs along the rails along,
Along with a lifting frame that is driven up and down by a lifting cylinder along a guide frame erected on the traveling base,
A vertical moving platform that moves in the front-rear direction by manual operation is mounted on a rail provided in the front-rear direction on the lifting base, and the vehicle is manually operated on a rail provided in the vehicle width direction on the vertical moving table. A pair of rollers, which move in the width direction and support the tires while they are separated from each other, are mounted on a laterally movable table arranged in the longitudinal direction, and at the longitudinal end of the laterally movable table at the reference position. Adjacently, the base end of the L-shaped tire mounting table formed with the wall surface of the distal end portion is pivotally connected to a support frame erected on the traveling base, and the tire mounting table is inclined downward. A manually operated type for attaching an actuator for rotating the storage position and an obliquely upper unloading position for rolling in the tire onto the roller to the tire mounting table, and finely adjusting the raising and lowering position to the lifting cylinder. Comes with a switch Tire mounting apparatus characterized by allowed. 4. A triangular cam which rises and descends in the vehicle width direction is formed on the traveling base, and is engaged with the cam when descending so that the laterally movable table is positioned at a reference position in the vehicle width direction. A triangular concave driven surface is formed on the bottom surface of the horizontal moving table, and the cylinder rod is engaged with the back surface of the vertical moving table during retreat to position the vertical moving table at the reference position in the front-rear direction and advance. 4. The tire mounting device according to claim 3, wherein an air cylinder detachable from the vertical moving table in a state is provided on the lifting base.