US 12,233,959 B2
Apparatus and method for stowing and deploying a vehicle tire
Brian H. Staser, Oxford, CT (US); Francis C. Strasek, Rocky River, OH (US); and Kenneth Gassman, Lake Orion, MI (US)
Assigned to INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLC, Troy, MI (US)
Filed by INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLC, Troy, MI (US)
Filed on May 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/827,368.
Application 17/827,368 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/US2021/017690, filed on Feb. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/972,917, filed on Feb. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/194,065, filed on May 27, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/194,049, filed on May 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0363324 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 43/04 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 43/045 (2013.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for stowing and deploying a vehicle tire from a rear portion of a vehicle, comprising:
a raising and lowering mechanism for moving the vehicle tire a stowed position to a deployed position, the vehicle tire when in the deployed position is lowered and extended laterally in order to provide access to the vehicle tire, and wherein the raising and lowering mechanism includes a motor for winding and unwinding a first cable and a second cable from a dual diameter cable drum, wherein the first cable lowers the vehicle tire from the stowed position and the second cable moves the vehicle tire laterally from the stowed position.