US Patent Issued to Hunter Engineering on Oct. 20 for "Tire hook assembly for tire changer" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,895, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hunter Engineering Co. (Bridgeton, Mo.).

"Tire hook assembly for tire changer" was invented by Michael Olsen (Lake St. Louis, Mo.) and Joshua Dierking (Leslie, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire changer demount tool assembly configured to automatically orient towards a tire and wheel assembly secured for rotation about a drive assembly of a tire changing machine. The demount tool assembly including a linearly driven demount tool biased to traverse a predetermined path of motion during a tire demount procedure."

The patent was filed on Oct. 25, 2022, under Application No. 18/703,231.

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