US1284260A - Cardboard tire-stand. - Google Patents

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Speeieetien of Lettere Rite-nit.

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it keewe. thetwe. Nimiiie M. .Dori :me :md J. (meme, citizens of the United States, emi residing 'et Cincineet, in the county of Hemiltonend Stute o Ghie, ybeve invented e. new and useful y 'fovement in Cerdboerl Tire-Stands, of e. the foewng speeiesitien is a, full tiem-esule. A

e iiveneo ieietes te e. twe piece cerd- 1, eimpfie and strong eereboed 'tine etezifi, which een be 'Whely assembled at the ectoiy, shipped; fief, en@ epened 'by the mi femetien.

uejeet eveetion is to proe sii-e1 ei twe i'eeriioers: of euch our invention me more the description of the @Wing immuni; e part of liberte. wie Y ei: the two pieces ,..eeteiry 1n fiat o1" ibeirs mpi'ises :i eee-tions if?, 3, proany irme, epposite ends et' eiefiiie the' iegoneily pe'eiwy the -te i3.; he eveieppiiig eitremithe emi sections 2, 3, ereermed I-ii pivete erioes 'Y end the upper gi-e ei? euri seetois 2, 3, have the eeneeve eoiitoui 8. n the factory the end eee'en 2 of one memier'ere nterlepped tie eed eeeten 3 ofthe opposite seci ci seemed by pivets 9 et each end of eteee, the eoiieave merging registering te the time reeeivinf; notches 10. `When etteeee tiie'ueited memfiers are folded so that when opened up into View oit one et the v Het upon the opposite seme? (iegenely folding seoied linee, pvetei eenneetions of the ends foiding; ovm tiet against the side members, the side and end members overlapping, es shown in Fir. 2.

The user Simply epene up the fiat 'oded members into the stand formation i3, Fig. 3, to support the tire 142. Prefiere-Uv, the Stand is slightly sheliow in relation. to the' diemetei' of a tire tube, so the-t the bottom extremity of the tire Wil tengentely eenteet the ground to help support the tire, It is not necessary te have internal eide wells or bttom. The characteristics e'' the de vice are, e two-piece stam. bied foiing Het, to open up inte e permenent steed formation, and @pen et the iep en@ heiterem.

In the prefered form ef en? inveiiton, the bottem margins of end sections 2, 3, me upwzmly inclined, as shown et le", l, eli steed for mation, there being ne bottega?, tile 'bei-,tem edges of the side Wells it, alone eenteet the groun, and the bottom edges et the eed Sections 2, 3, de Het contact the gesund, eept et the eornere 15, 1-Yneieit'oee the two side Wells being connected hy the pivete ends, ulerum on these ground edges. 16, constituting two tire gripping jews, which, when the Weight of the tire is eppef, grip the tire in proportien to the Weight, anni lower the tire into ground eov Having described ou;i eleim;

Imeekdewn stenfi, assuming the feinstem ef e ,ge-mamie, eme. e L arising e rectangular shell epee -,e tcp and bettom, heJng-Hexibe corners eeebing the structure to be oided upon itset' F-Qgo-A nelly into fiat form and to epee up inte stand formation, the end weie comprising pivotelly Gonnected sections, the uope'- mel*- gins being sheped-to suple-srt e tire.

` 2'. A knock-down ceidbee' tire eenensiend, assuming the general shepe ef e frais tum of e pyramid, seid eteetue eempising e rectangular shell epee the enf,

bottom, having exble corners enablingthe' our names, Aas attested by the two subscribstrucurefto be cded upon itself dagln-(llly ing Witnesses. e

Junto at orm an to open u into stan o1'- 1 mation, the side walls hving marginal 5 ground contact, and the end Walls comprislng pivoally connected sections shaped to Witnesses: constitute pmcer jaws to grip the tire. D. DRACHENBERG,

' In Wtne'ss whereof, We' hereunto subscribe L; A. BECK.

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