Abstract:
A vehicle tire includes a selectively actuated stud deployment system for increased traction. The studs are contained in cells in the surface of the tire and forced to deploy by pneumatic or fluid pressure. When the pressure is released, the studs retract.
Abstract:
A vehicle tire includes a selectively actuated stud deployment system for increased traction. The studs are contained in cells in the surface of the tire and forced to deploy by pneumatic or fluid pressure. When the pressure is released, the studs retract.
Abstract:
An automobile tire having an anti-skidding function and useful throughout all seasons is provided which permits the automobile to run while maintaining the anti-skidding function even if it encounters a snowless road during a travel on a snow-covered road, which does not require frequent operations of extending and retracting the spike pins and which poses no problem of pollution. Air chambers 3 are formed in the tread 2 of the tire. Branch tubes 4A of an air supply and evacuation tube 4 are connected with the air chambers 3. The tread surface has bosses 2B extending outwardly therefrom at locations corresponding to those portions 2A of the peripheral walls of the air chambers facing the tread surface, the bosses allowing portions of the tread to be bulged from and depressed into the tread surface depending on the air pressure in the air chambers. On-off valve means 6 may be provided in connecting portions between the air chambers 3 and the air supply and evacuation tube 4.
Abstract:
A traction device for vehicle wheels has tread segments that are expandable and contractible by secondary inflatable chambers to place studs either in engagement or out of engagement with a road surface. Alternatively, stud bearing tread segments are removably mounted between segments of conventional tread.
Abstract:
An improved automobile tire that incorporates studs for engaging a roadway surface during times when covered by snow and especially by ice; the studs protruding from a narrow area around the tire which during normal use in non-icy weather is concave so to form an annular recess in order that the studs do not engage the roadway; the tire having a separate air cell just behind the annular recess which is inflatable during icy weather by a separate valve so to push outwardly the recess thus exposing the studs beyond the remainder of the tire outer periphery.
Abstract:
A vehicle tire having reciprocating studs. A diaphragm mounted inside the tire engages heads of the studs and when air under pressure is introduced between the diaphragm and a boot mounted thereinside, portions of the diaphragm engaging the heads of the studs advance outwardly driving the studs to operative position.