Patents Assigned to Plumbium Manufacturing Corporation
  • Patent number: 4300803
    Abstract: An adhesively secured balance weight for counter-balancing vehicle wheels possessing a rim flange and a protruding lip to receive the weight composed of a body having a mass of heavy metal and a length greater than the width and thickness. The body includes top and rear surfaces in which the rear surface is substantially planar for receiving an adhesive layer to adhere the weight to the rim flange. The top surface of the body is provided with an abutment surface for contact with the protruding lip and a chamfer is formed between the top and rear surface by a removal at the arris of about 0.05-0.3 inches on each surface to form a chamfer at least 0.05 times the thickness of the weight. A layer of adhesive is positioned on the rear surface of the weight to secure the weight to the rim flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1981
    Assignee: Plumbium Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Jerome J. Chorosevic
  • Patent number: 4068532
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method for dynamically counter-balancing vehicle wheels with balance weights of a single, pre-selected mass. The apparatus is characterized by a device for determining the magnitude and the location on the inside and outside rim flanges of the subject wheel at which a weight of the determined magnitude could be placed to provide the moment required to achieve a counter-balanced condition, an arithmetic unit for operating upon said position and magnitude data to compute the positions on the inside and outside rim flanges at which one each of said balance weights should be placed to provide a resultant counter-balancing moment equal to that required to balance the wheel when using only a single weight of the determined magnitude on each rim flange, and a means for visually displaying the positions on the rim flanges at which such balance weights are to be affixed in order to balance the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Assignee: Plumbium Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard J. Green, Jerome J. Chorosevic