Abstract:
A tire which can be used without an inner tube on a standard "safety" rim, each of the beads of which tire has, on the one hand, a base of a width L.sub.2, comprising essentially a cylindrical zone of diameter D.sub.2, equal to the diameter D.sub.1 of the cylindrical hump of the rim and having an axial width l.sub.23 which is between 0.15 L.sub.2 and 0.25 L.sub.2, and a frustoconical zone of an axial width l.sub.24 which is between 0.45 L.sub.2 and 0.65 L.sub.2, the generatrix of the frustoconical zone forming with the axis of rotation of the tire an angle .beta. such that tan .beta. is between 0.5 and 0.6, and, on the other hand, a reinforcing bead ring of an interior diameter D.sub.3 which is very little different from D.sub.1, the center O.sub.3 of a circle circumscribed around the cross section thereof being located at a distance L.sub.3 from the rim flange such that the clamp on the rim is at least equal to 0.45.
Abstract:
A tire and wheel rim assembly having improved bead retention characteristics when run deflated.One or both bead seats is substantially straight and provided with an abutment respectively which is substantially continuous in the circumferential direction. Each abutment has a maximum radial dimension less than the minimum diameter of the tire bead reinforcement to allow fitment of the tire to a one-piece rim having a tire fitting well by conventional techniques. The taper of the bead seats is selected to enable abutments to be provided which have sufficient radial dimension or height relative to the adjacent bead seat such that under the action of road generated forces rotation of the tire beads about the adjacent abutment is effected to retain the tire beads at the bead seats.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire and wheel rim assembly is disclosed in which the rim bead seats are defined by grooves having radially directed side portions which retain the associated tire bead against movement in an axial direction and each rim bead seat includes means in engagement with the tire bead to restrict rotation of the tire bead relative to the bead seat. Preferably said means comprises a plurality of projections formed integrally with part or all of the grooves which engage the associated tire bead to restrict rotation. Each projection may comprise a circumferentially extending rib or a tooth.