Patents Assigned to Butler Engineering & Marketing S.p.A.
  • Publication number: 20140182704
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for feeding a fluid to a vessel (T), including a fluid inflow or inlet opening, a distribution valve placed between the inlet opening and the vessel (T), a fluid supply line between the distribution valve and the vessel, and a valve member intercepting the supply line and movable between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tullio Gonzaga, Silvano Santi
  • Patent number: 8752605
    Abstract: A device for automatic demounting of a tire from a rim having: a support arm (4); a demounting tool (10) articulated to the support arm (4); an attachment member (12) having one end articulated to the demounting tool (10) by a first articulation pin (13) and the other end thereof pivoted to the support arm (4) around a second articulation pin (14) extending substantially parallel to the first articulation pin (13); at least one extension appendage of the support arm (4) or a section (17) of the support arm (4), which extends beyond the second articulation pin (14); and at least one tie rod member (18) that is articulated on one side to the tool, and on the other side to the extension appendage or section (17) of the support arm (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tullio Gonzaga, Silvano Santi
  • Patent number: 8464774
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bead breaker group for bead breaking a tire of a tired wheel equipped with rim with bead-engagement flanges, the bead breaker group comprising a support (2, 5) and at least one bead breaker tool (3) mounted for rotation around a pin (4) borne by the support (2, 5), the bead breaker tool being substantially flat and comprising: at least one portion configured as an abutment front (3b, 3d, 3f) against a flange of a rim of a tired wheel to be bead broken; and at least one portion having curved peripheral edge substantially coaxial with the pin (4) and intended to act as an engagement-penetration zone (3a, 3c, 3e) between the flange of a rim and the bead of a tire to be bead broken, the distance between the abutment front (3b, 3d, 3f) and the pin (4) being less than the distance between the pin (4) and the at least one engagement-penetration zone (3a, 3c, 3e).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tullio Gonzaga, Silvano Santi
  • Patent number: 8322007
    Abstract: A handling device for a resistant load includes a guide track (2) or a plurality of parallel guide tracks, a pair of slides or carriages (10a, 10b) slidingly mounted on a guide track (2) or a respective guide track, removable locking means (6a, 6b) associated with each slide or carriage (10a, 10b) and designed to keep in position its respective slide or carriage along the respective guide track (2), a linear actuator means (3) associated with each slide or carriage (10a, 10b) and having at least one first component (4) and at least one second component (5a) which can be displaced, upon control, one with respect to the other parallely to the guide track (2) or plurality of parallel guide tracks, the at least one first component (4) being displaceable together with a slide or carriage (10a) of the pair, and the at least one second component (5a) being displaceable together with the other slide or carriage (10b) of the pair, engagement means (7a, 7b) for a resistant load displaceable together with the linear act
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tullio Gonzaga, Silvano Santi
  • Patent number: 7798196
    Abstract: A tire mounting-demounting machine having a bead breaking arm with a work head having a head-holder support (10), bracket member (6) pivoted at one end thereof to the head-holder support (10), a bead breaker tool (2) supported at the other end of the at least one bracket member (6) and configured to engage a bead of a tire (P), a lever element (7) pivoted to the head-holder support (10) and bearing a feeler pin arm portion (9) configured to control the lever element (7) and a biasing member configured to yieldably keep the lever element (7) in the work position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tullio Gonzaga, Silvano Santi
  • Publication number: 20100232916
    Abstract: A handling device for a resistant load includes a guide track (2) or a plurality of parallel guide tracks, a pair of slides or carriages (10a, 10b) slidingly mounted on a guide track (2) or a respective guide track, removable locking means (6a, 6b) associated with each slide or carriage (10a, 10b) and designed to keep in position its respective slide or carriage along the respective guide track (2), a linear actuator means (3) associated with each slide or carriage (10a, 10b) and having at least one first component (4) and at least one second component (5a) which can be displaced, upon control, one with respect to the other parallely to the guide track (2) or plurality of parallel guide tracks, the at least one first component (4) being displaceable together with a slide or carriage (10a) of the pair, and the at least one second component (5a) being displaceable together with the other slide or carriage (10b) of the pair, engagement means (7a, 7b) for a resistant load displaceable together with the linear act
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gonzaga Tullio, Santi Silvano
  • Patent number: 7726376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a locking device design to act between a tire and its respective wheel rim for dynamically balancing a tired wheel. The locking device is arranged to be installed on a tired-wheel maintenance machine having a support frame and a rotatable support for a wheel rim of a deflated tired wheel and locking-unlocking means for locking-unlocking the wheel rim to and from the rotatable support. The locking device comprises holding belt anchorable to the support frame and an engaging group designed removably to engage the tire of the deflated tired wheel, while its respective wheel rim is controllably angularly shifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventor: Tullio Gonzaga
  • Publication number: 20090266493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bead breaker group for bead breaking a tire of a tired wheel equipped with rim with bead-engagement flanges, the bead breaker group comprising a support (2, 5) and at least one bead breaker tool (3) mounted for rotation around a pin (4) borne by the support (2, 5), the bead breaker tool being substantially flat and comprising: at least one portion configured as an abutment front (3b, 3d, 3f) against a flange of a rim of a tired wheel to be bead broken; and at least one portion having curved peripheral edge substantially coaxial with the pin (4) and intended to act as an engagement-penetration zone (3a, 3c, 3e) between the flange of a rim and the bead of a tire to be bead broken, the distance between the abutment front (3b, 3d, 3f) and the pin (4) being less than the distance between the pin (4) and the at least one engagement-penetration zone (3a, 3c, 3e).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.P.A
    Inventors: Tullio GONZAGA, Silvano Santi
  • Patent number: 7306023
    Abstract: A protection device for tool in a tire assembling-disassembling machine, which tool (2) has at least one working slot or groove (3) designed to slidingly engage, in use, with a peripheral edge of a wheel rim (C) located on the tire assembling-disassembling machine. The protection device comprises a laminar body (1) designed to be seated in the working groove (3), and retaining means (8a, 8b) between the laminar body (1) and the tool (2) provided removably to keep in position the laminar body (1) in the working groove (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventor: Tullio Gonzaga
  • Patent number: 7293595
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotatable wheel rim support group designed to be mounted on an assembling-disassembling machine. The support group includes at least one pair of annular plate-shaped members designed to abut against the wheel rim on a side opposite to that of a removable locking device, the plate-shaped members being arranged facing and approachable to and retractable from one another about a control shaft, a plurality of friction engagement members disposed angularly displaced and partly formed in one of the annular plate-shaped members and partly in the other, and support and rotational motion transmission members between the control shaft and one of the annular plate-shaped members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Butler Engineering & Marketing, S.p.A.
    Inventor: Tullio Gonzaga
  • Patent number: 7188656
    Abstract: An automatic detector device for a tire assembling-disassembling machine having at least one support group (G) mounted for rotation about an axis of rotation of a tired wheel (9) whose bead is to be released, and at least one bead-releasing roll-carrying extending-retracting arm (T1, T2). Each arm (T1, T2) can be extended and retracted and suppports a respective bead-releasing roll (R1, R2). The arm (T1, T2) are located, in use, on opposite sides with respect to the tired wheel (9). The detector device further comprises a sensor member (3) movably supported at a respective bead-releasing roll (R1, R2), driving means (5) for each sensor member (3), so that it can be moved between a backward rest position and an extended working position, and control means (34) arranged to act in response to control signals generated by sensor member (3) in its working position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventor: Tullio Gonzaga
  • Patent number: 7089987
    Abstract: An apparatus for servicing a tired wheel for motor vehicles, which comprises a tire assembling-disassembling machine provided with a rotatable motor-driven support (3) for supporting a wheel to be handled, sensor means (4, 5) for controlling both the position of, and the load on, the rotatable support (3), urging locking means (6) designed to act on the middle portion of the wheel-rim to make the wheel rigid in rotation with the rotatable support (3), detecting means (7, 7a, 7b) designed to measure the size of the wheel-rim, and program control means (EC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Butler Engineering and Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventor: Tullio Gonzaga
  • Patent number: D682331
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Butler Engineering and Marketing S.p.A.
    Inventor: Cristiano Tarozzi