TIRE CHANGER

A tire changer having fixed bead breakers arranged to be operative on opposite faces of the same half of a wheel to effect the squeezing action for bead breaking in the fashion of ice tongs. One of the bead breakers is automatically actuated and the other bead breaker is adapted to be manually positioned adjacent the wheel rim and the tire to slide therebetween in response to the movement of the automatically actuated bead breaker. Chucking means is provided for automatically positioning and holding inflated tires of varying sizes on the tire changer in proper relationship with the bead breakers without resorting to any manual adjustments to accommodate tires of different sizes. The chucking means includes a movable wheel chuck adapted to be positioned in unison with the conventional rotary motor to position the rotor shaft in the center of the wheel. The rotary motor accommodates a tire tool for effecting the disengagement of the tire around the complete outer periphery of the wheel.