Abstract:
An assembly including a deformable, inextensible tread-bearing support S, which can be slipped on to a suitable rim bearing surface (11). The bearing surface (11) extends axially towards the inside of a first rim seat (13null), which is in turn extended to the outside by a protrusion or hump (15null) of low height. The first rim seat (13null) is inclined towards the outside. A second rim seat (13null) having, viewed in meridian section, a generatrix, the axially inner end of which is located on a circle of diameter DnullA greater than the diameter of the circle on which is located the axially inner end DnullA of the first rim seat (13null). The two seats being, axially to the inside, extended by frustoconical portions (17, 14) of a height at least equal to 0.01 times the minimum diameter of the bearing surface (11), and the generatrices of which form with the axis of rotation angles null at least equal to 45null. The rim bearing surface (11) is provided with at least one circumferential protuberance (115) arranged in a circumferential groove (30) of the radially inner face of the tread bearing support S, such that the protuberance (115) axially comes to bear and butt up against at least one lateral wall of the groove (30).
Abstract:
A tire (1), a mounting rim (2) therefor and a circumferentially unstretchable ring (3) for supporting the tread (10) of the tire when running at low or zero pressure. The tire (1) has a radial ply casing (13) on which the points that are furthest apart axially are radially apart close to seats (12B) of outwardly sloping beads (12). The seats (12B) engage sloping seats (23', 23") on the rim (2), which may have at least one mounting well (22), at least one cylindrical portion (21) for receiving the supporting ring (3) and a rim flange (24).
Abstract:
A method of building an unequal bead diameter tire with conventional components and contour lengths which are substantially equal, the contour lengths being measured along the neutral axis of the carcass plies between the beads and a plane containing the mid-circumferential centerline of the tread. The tire is molded in a special configuration not usually employed in shaping a tire, i.e. the tread is unsymmetrical in relation to a plane which normally bisects the tread, and the lateral edges of the tread are radially offset and not equally spaced from the center axis of the mold which is normally the case when the conventional methods are used for molding and vulcanizing a tire.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a unitary run flat tire (RFT) reinforcement using filament material that is formed into a relatively rigid shape. The reinforcement is insertable into a mold for an RFT support and can maintain the needed structural rigidity for such insertion. Further, the invention provides an RFT support that is molded and includes the RFT reinforcement. The invention also provides a wheel assembly including a tire, a rim, and an RFT support between the rim and the tire, where the support includes the RFT reinforcement. The RFT support can have a colored indicator formed or subsequently applied thereto to indicate one or more attributes of the support.
Abstract:
A tire comprising two beads, a crown and sidewalls that connect the crown to said beads, the tire being reinforced by a carcass reinforcement anchored in each bead to at least one annular anchoring element, each sidewall comprising an additional, inextensible sidewall ring located axially inside the axially outermost carcass ply and a coupling section located radially between the annular anchoring element in the bead and said sidewall ring and positioned axially inside the axially outermost carcass ply. The tire is characterized in that the line segments passing through the centers of gravity of the sections of the annular anchoring rings in the beads and through the center of gravity of the sidewall rings on the same respective side, make angles respectively of β1 and β2 relative to the rotation axis, these angles being different.
Abstract:
A tire comprising two beads, a crown and sidewalls that connect the crown to said beads, the tire being reinforced by a carcass reinforcement anchored in each bead to at least one annular anchoring element, each sidewall comprising an additional, inextensible sidewall ring located axially inside the axially outermost carcass ply and a coupling section located radially between the annular anchoring element in the bead and said sidewall ring and positioned axially inside the axially outermost carcass ply. The tire is characterized in that the line segments passing through the centers of gravity of the sections of the annular anchoring rings in the beads and through the center of gravity of the sidewall rings on the same respective side, make angles respectively of null1 and null2 relative to the rotation axis, these angles being different.
Abstract:
A heavy-duty pneumatic radial tire and rim assembly ha s a support ring within the tire to support the tire in a deflated condition, wherein the inner diameter Di of the inside bead portion which is inside with respect to the vehicle is substantially 80 to 200 mm larger than the inner diameter Do of the outside bead portion.
Abstract:
An assembly including a deformable, inextensible tread-bearing support S, which can be slipped on to a suitable rim bearing surface (11). The bearing surface (11) extends axially towards the inside of a first rim seat (13′), which is in turn extended to the outside by a protrusion or hump (15′) of low height. The first rim seat (13′) is inclined towards the outside. A second rim seat (13″) having, viewed in meridian section, a generatrix, the axially inner end of which is located on a circle of diameter D″A greater than the diameter of the circle on which is located the axially inner end D′A of the first rim seat (13′). The two seats being, axially to the inside, extended by frustoconical portions (17, 14) of a height at least equal to 0.01 times the minimum diameter of the bearing surface (11), and the generatrices of which form with the axis of rotation angles &agr; at least equal to 45°. The rim bearing surface (11) is provided with at least one circumferential protuberance (115) arranged in a circumferential groove (30) of the radially inner face of the tread bearing support S, such that the protuberance (115) axially comes to bear and butt up against at least one lateral wall of the groove (30).