Snap-in tire valve

• US 4,411,302 A
• Filed: 09/28/1981
• Issued: 10/25/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Scovill, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Scovill, Inc.
• Inventors: Kuypers, Harold A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weakley, Harold W.
• Application Number:
  US06/306,286
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 152/427, 152/DIG. 11, 285/DIG. 22, 285/319
• US Class Current: 152/427
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 29/02 Connection to rims
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/60 Coupler sealing means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 152/11 Tubeless valves
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 285/921 Snap-fit
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/3584 Inflatable article [e.g., tire filling chuck and/or stem]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/602 by separate spring

Abstract

Snap-in tire valve includes rigid base larger than the rim hole opening so that the valve cannot be extruded therethrough. Valve is held in place by spring clip surrounding the valve stem.

Claims

1. A tire valve comprising a rigid tubular body having an enlarged base and formed with a groove spaced from the base, gasket means having an annular flange portion and a tapered longitudinal extension surrounding the body adjacent the base, and an annular spring C-shaped clip surrounding and engaging the body in the groove and having a plurality of straight tapered spring fingers narrowing as their distal ends are approached extending outward and generally toward the base, whereby the valve can be inserted into a rim hole opening, smaller end first, so that the fingers flex inward toward the center of the valve until they are through the opening and then spring outward to trap the valve in the opening with the gasket in compressive sealing relation to the rim.