Patents Assigned to Gerb. Hofmann GmbH & Co. KG
  • Method and apparatus for controlling the quality of tires
    Patent number: 4545239
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the quality of tires, in particular automobile tires, in which a rotating tire rolls on a rolling surface of a test drum and where one force-measuring system measures the dynamic force portions and another force-measuring system measures the static force portions of the forces exerted by the rotating tire in the same flux of forces through the rolling surface of the test drum which is supported on the same bearing element of a bearing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: Gerb. Hofmann GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gunther Himmler, Friedrich Wenz