Patent Grant
11090988
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The disclosure and prior art relates to tire blocks and more particularly pertains to a new tire block for adding and removing chains to dual tire trucks.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a block base having a top side separated from a bottom side, an inner side separated from an outer side, and a front side separated from a back side. The front side slopes from the bottom side to the top side to form a front ramp. A pair of chain mounts is coupled to the inner side and the outer side proximal the front side. A capture chain is coupled to the pair of chain mounts. The capture chain extends between the pair of chain mounts to form a U-shape adjacent the front side of the block base. The capture chain is configured to be driven on by a truck to prevent the block base from slipping away as the truck tires climb the front ramp to rest an inner tire on the top side to elevate an outer tire to receive or remove a snow chain.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A plurality of LED lights 32 is coupled to the block base 12. The plurality of LED lights 32 may comprise a pair of light strips 34 coupled within the inner side 18 and the outer side 20. Each of the pair of light strips 34 has a rectangular protective cover 36 for protection. A power source 38 is coupled to the block base 12. The power source 38 may comprise a pair of battery compartments 40 and a pair of power buttons 42 coupled within the inner side 18 and the outer side 20 adjacent the pair of light strips 34. The pair of battery compartments 40 is configured to receive a plurality of batteries. The plurality of LED lights 32 is in operational communication with the power source 38 and the pair of power buttons 42 is in operational communication with the pair of battery compartments 40 and the pair light strips 34 to operate each light strip of the pair of light strips 34 individually.
A pair of chain mounts 44 is coupled to the inner side 18 and the outer side 20 of the block base proximal the front side 22. Each of the pair of chain mounts 44 may comprise a D-ring 46 coupled within a circular housing 48. The circular housing 48 may be swivelable. A capture chain 50 is coupled to the pair of chain mounts 44. The capture chain 50 comprises a principal chain 52 extending between the pair of chain mounts 44 to form a U-shape and a plurality of cross chains 54 extending between sections of the principal chain 52.
In use, the capture chain 50 is to driven on by a truck 56 to prevent the block base 12 from slipping away as an inner tire 58 of a pair of truck tires 60 climbs the front ramp 26 to rest the inner tire 58 on the top side 14 and elevate an outer tire 62 of the pair of tires to receive or remove a snow chain 64. The truck 60 may then drive over the block base 12 down the back ramp 28 to raise an adjacent pair of tires 66.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
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