RevisionC-Developmentofconceptofcompressorforcommercialvehicle

Figure 3:10: Hand controlled Brake valve
3.6 Tyre Inflator
As the commercial vehicle is very heavy in size and usually travel to the roads less taken,
there are chances of failure of the truck tyres, in this situation the truck will be stuck if there will
be no shop to repair the tyres nearby, to cure this situation the commercial vehicle is fixed with
an additional and optional valve known as Tyre Inflator valve this device use the pressure from
the compressor and refill the pressure in the tyre.
Additionally, now in many trucks and other vehicles, there is a feature of automatic tyre
pressure maintenance, this feature also maintains proper tyre pressure using the air pressure
from the compressor.
In the figure 3K, we can see the feature of tyre inflator is assembled to the valve. some
Tyre inflators are also manual. [6]
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