GB746680A - Wheel - Google Patents

Abstract

746,680. Assembling rims on tyre wheel bodies. WINGFOOT CORPORATION. Jan. 15, 1954 [June 24, 1953], No. 1209/54. Class 144 (2). A rim assembly for a single or double tyre wheel body comprises a split ring 10 resting on the mounting surface 5 of the wheel body with its inner periphery overlying the portion of the surface 5 between a radial groove 6 and lateral surface 8 of the body and having a lug 9 extending radially from its inner periphery to seat in said groove 6 and on its outer periphery a vertically and axially extending rim seat 16 at least a part of which lies between the groove 6 and the surface 8 and is intimately engaged by a locating portion 15 circumferentially and inwardly extending along one edge of the rim 12 to align the rim vertically and coaxially with the wheel body, clamping means such as lugs 18 engaging the mounting surface 5 and a portion 19 of the inner periphery of the rim 12 maintaining the rim in the vertical and coaxial alignments when nuts 21 are tightened on bolts 20. Each bolt 20 is held in place by snap rings received in grooves 22, 23, 24. In a dual wheel body the spokes of the inboard rim mounting surface are located mid-way circumferentially of spokes of the outboard rim mounting surface to permit access to the inboard clamping members 18, 20, 21.