Tire pressure gauge

• US 4,845,980 A
• Filed: 08/31/1988
• Issued: 07/11/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hsi-Kuang Weng
• Original Assignee: Hsi-Kuang Weng
• Inventors: Weng, Hsi-Kuang
• Primary Examiner(s): Woodiel, Donald O.
• Application Number:
  US06/238,482
• Time in Patent Office: 314 Days
• Field of Search: 73/146.8, 73/146.3, 73/744, 137/227, 137/228, 137/229
• US Class Current: 73/146.8
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 17/00 Devices or apparatus for measuring tyre pressure or the pressure in other inflated bodies

Abstract

A tire pressure gauge includes as in the prior art a cylindrical housing securing thereto a tubular member securing thereto a first measuring head, a piston rod, a spiral spring, a sectorial plate capable of being pivoted by the rod, a pinion meshing with the plate, a scale plate, and a needle connected to the pinion wherein the improvement is that the gauge further includes a soft tube having a first end detachably connected to the first measuring head and a second end connected to a second measuring head. Such gauge can conveniently measure the air pressure of inner wheels of a truck or a bus with the second measuring head without the need of bringing the cylindrical housing into the bottom of the bus.

Claims

1. A tyre pressure gauge comprising a cylindrical housing having an open top, a tubular member having a first end secured to said housing and a second end, a first measuring head fixed to said second end and capable of being inserted upon an air valve of a type for passing therethrough an air pressure from said tyre into said tubular member, a piston rod received in said member for being axially actuated therein by said air pressure, a spiral spring mounted between said housing and said piston rod for restoring said rod into a position not actuated by said pressure, a sectorial plate pivotally mounted in said housing, capable of being pivoted by said rod and having an arcuate toothed edge, a restoring spring mounted between said housing and said sectorial plate for restoring said plate into a position not pivoted by said rod, a pinion rotatably mounted in said housing and meshing with said toothed edge, a scale plate covered on said open top, a needle connected to said pinion for pointing on said scale plate when said rod pivots said sectorial plate which in turn rotates said pinion, and a pawl mounted in said housing and capable of pawling said pinion in a position rotated by said sectorial plate, characterized in that said gauge further includes:

a soft tube having a first end detachably connected to said first measuring head and a second end; and

a second measuring head including;

a hollow measuring rod having a third end connected to said second end of said soft tube and a fourth end having a central axial projection having an eccentrical axial through hole communicating with a hollow center of said measuring rod; and

a cylindrical piece coaxially secured to said fourth end and capable of cooperating with said projection to form therebetween an annular space capable of inserting therein a top portion of said air valve.

2. A tyre pressure gauge according to claim 1, wherein said pawl is an elastic metal wire.

3. A tyre pressure gauge according to claim 1, further comprising a hollow connector having a first end detachably connected to said first measuring head and a second end connected to said first end of said soft tube.

4. A tyre pressure gauge according to claim 1, wherein:

said first measuring head includes a circular diaphragm coaxially mounted in said second end of said tubular member and having an eccentrical through hole capable of passing therethrough said air pressure, and a second central axial projection extended from said diaphragm and capable of cooperating with a wall of said second tubular member end to form therebetween an annular space; and

said second tubular member end, said circular diaphragm and

said second projection are integrally formed.

5. A tyre pressure gauge acording to claim 1, further comprising a mounting block fixed to said housing, securing therein said first tubular member end, and protruding therefrom said piston rod in said housing.