RESILIENT TIRE AND WHEEL ASSEMBLY

• US 3,827,792 A
• Filed: 03/24/1972
• Issued: 08/06/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jesse R. Hollins
• Original Assignee: Jesse R. Hollins
• Inventors: Hollins, Jesse R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wood, Jr., M. Henson
• Assistant Examiner(s): Beltran, Howard
• Application Number:
  US05/237,649
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• Field of Search: 152/310,311,312,313,315,316,318,319,379,380,381,382,384,396,397,398,401,402,403,319,381,382,398,403
• US Class Current: 152/319
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 3/08 with disc body formed by two or more axially spaced discs comprising rail-engaging elements formed by two or more axially spaced discs B60B17/0013
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 7/101 Tyre casings enclosing a distinct core, e.g. foam enclosed chambers defined by a distinct core B60C7/121
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 152/10459 Recessed

Abstract

An improved resilient tire combination comprising a wheel assembly which is adapted to be mounted on a vehicle wheel hub. The complete tire is formed with an inner core and an outer carcass where interengaging cavities and projections prevent relative rotation between said inner core and outer carcass with bolts provided for securing the complete tire to said wheel assembly.

Claims

1. An improved tire and wheel combination comprising a wheel assembly which is adapted to be mounted on a vehicle wheel hub, said wheel assembly including two wheel sections, said wheel sections including a plurality of registered bolt clearance holes, a tire having a tread and in contact with said wheel sections, a one piece solid unitary structure tire core received within said tire and formed from a resilient material, a plurality of registered bolt clearance holes extending through said tire and said core and in registry with registered bolt clearance holes in said wheel sections, a plurality of bolts, each bolt passing through registered bolt clearance holes in said wheel sections, said tire and said core, a nut for locking the free end of each bolt, a plurality of spaced-apart cavities being located on said core, projections extending from said tire inwardly and each projection positioned within a cavity on said core and filling said cavity whereby said projection and cavity assist in preventing relative movement between said tire and said core.

2. A tire and wheel combination according to claim 1 wherein each wheel section includes a central hub portion with said hub portions of said wheel sections being in face-to-face contact with each other, said wheel sections each including a tire flank retainer, said tire including an annular portion and spaced apart radially inwardly extending tire flanks, said core including an annular section received in the annular portion of said tire and including a radially inwardly extending portion, said tire flanks being located adjacent opposed portions of said radially inwardly extending portion of said core and secured by said tire flank retainers, said tire flanks and said radially inwardly extending portion of said core each having an inner periphery, said wheel sections defining means against which said inner peripheries of said tire flanks and said core abut.

3. A tire and wheel combination according to claim 1 further including a rim periphery on each wheel section extending away from the tire flank retainer thereof with a portion of said tire abutting against each rim periphery, said tire including an external bead on opposed sides thereof and a bead receiver integral with each of said wheel section rim peripheries with each bead of said tire being received in a respective bead receiver.