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US 2003/0116245 A1Published application
Tire breaker and anti-knock arrangement
OwnerShut Chen Hsuinventor
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Abstract
A tire breaker and anti-knock arrangement includes a supplementary bearing structure formed of two parallel supplementary bearing loops supported inside the tire between two inward lips at two sidewalls of the tire for enabling the driver to keep driving the car to a repair shop upon a tire explosion due to an accident.
Claims1
A tire breaker and anti-knock arrangement comprising:
- a tire, said tire comprising two inward lips respectively protruded from two opposite sidewalls thereof at an inner side, said inward lips comprising a plurality of plugholes and locating holes;
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- a supplementary bearing structure supported inside said tire between said inward lips, said supplementary bearing loop comprising two supplementary bearing loops each formed of a plurality of arched bearing members connected in series, a plurality of compression springs respectively connected between said arched bearing members of said supplementary bearing loops, and two annular flexible packing rings respectively fastened to said inward lips and said supplementary bearing loops, said annular flexible packing rings each having a corrugated inner diameter fitting the corrugated bottom sidewalls of said inward lips of said tire, said arched bearing members each comprising a corrugated bottom sidewall fitting the corrugated inner diameter of said annular flexible packing rings, a downward stop flange stopped at one side of the corresponding annular flexible packing ring, a screw rod disposed at one end, a coupling lug disposed at the other end and defining a coupling hole, which receives the screw rod of another arched bearing members, a plurality of plug rods and locating rods respectively press-fitted into the plugholes and locating holes in said inward lips of said tire, and coupling tubes, the coupling tubes of. the arched bearing members of one of said supplementary bearing loops each having a longitudinal series of hook holes, the coupling tubes of the arched bearing members of the other of said supplementary bearing loops each having a hook adapted for selectively hooking in said hook holes, the coupling tubes of the arched bearing members of one of said supplementary bearing loops being respectively inserted into the coupling tubes of the arched bearing members of the other of said supplementary bearing loops, said compression springs being respectively mounted in the coupling tubes of the arched bearing members of said supplementary bearing loops.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.