Abstract:
A wheel (10) having a tire (12 ) is provided with a liquid molasses as a ballast (100). The tire can be tubeless or can contain a tube (28). The molasses is preferably desugared (less than 30% by weight sucrose) and is able to sustain a temperature of -30.degree. F. (-34.4.degree. C. and below) without freezing. The molasses is non-toxic, non-corrosive and non-abrasive and is environmentally friendly. Farm, utility, industrial, lawn and garden and commercial vehicles use ballasted tires.
Abstract:
There is disclosed apparatus including an assembly of parts for use in preparing the rim of a vehicle wheel having either a tube type or tubeless tire for use in dispensing liquid in the tire to fight fire in and around the area of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A device is provided for filling with water the space enclosed within a wheel rim and a tubeless tire mounted on the rim. A removable coupling is mounted in the usual valve opening formed in the wheel rim and is adapted to be connected to a source of water under pressure. An air-exhaust tube is slidable through the coupling in air-tight relation thereto. A first end of the airexhaust tube is inserted into the enclosed space and a second end remains outside the enclosed space. The air-exhaust tube comprises at the first end a removable tip which forms an inlet into the air-exhaust tube for exhausting air from the enclosed space as water is introduced into the enclosed space. The tip is then withdrawn into the valve opening, which it temporarily seals by means of an O-ring while the coupling and air-exhaust tube are removed and until mounting of a conventional valve in the valve opening.