Automotive tire dressing applicator

• US 8,601,972 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2011
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Piston OPW, Inc. (Dover Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Belanger, Inc. (Dover Corporation)
• Inventors: Tognetti, David L., Morin, Mark D., Belanger, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yuan, Dah-Wei
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kurple, Karl
• Application Number:
  US13/332,445
• Publication Number:
  US 20120090540A1
• Time in Patent Office: 720 Days
• Field of Search: 151/46, 151/79, 152/36, 152/361, 152/360.3, 15/534, 401/206, 401/283, 134/900, 134/6, 134/79, 134/83, 134/123, 134/255, 134/258, 118/216, 118/223, 118/264, 118/255, 118/258, 427/428.05, 427/428.08
• US Class Current: 118/264
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 1/08 using a roller or other rotating member which contacts the work along a generating line
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 5/366 for grinding tyres

Abstract

A tire dressing applicator assembly comprises a linearly arranged series of toroidally-shaped plastic rollers having one or more beveled edges and reinforced for shape retaining purposes by pins which extend axially through the bodies of the elements outboard of a center opening which is adapted to receive a support shaft.

Claims

1. A roller for use in a tire dressing applicator comprising:

a toroidal body of absorbent cellular foam plastic material having

a continuous cylindrical tire contacting outer surface configured to transfer tire dressing to an automotive tire side wall;

said body having a longitudinal axis of rotation, and a cylindrical through bore formed therein along said axis of rotation configured to friction mount on a shaft; and

a plurality of circumferentially spaced elongate pins of a length substantially equal to the axial length of said body and extending through the foam plastic material radially outwardly spaced from said cylindrical through bore and inserted into the foam plastic material to reduce distortion of said body during transfer of the tire dressing to an automotive tire side wall.

2. A roller as defined in claim 1 wherein the pins are attached to the foam plastic material.

3. A roller as defined in claim 2 wherein the pins are attached by adhesive.