Improvements relating to tire rims
OwnerGiorgio Augusto Neyrozinventor
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Abstract
A tire rim of a motor vehicle includes a substantially cylindrical body for holding a tire, and a hub connected to the body through radial members, and has an outer face facing, in use, the outside of the vehicle, and an opposite inner face. At least one elongate flexible element associated with the rim can reach a resting configuration within the rim, and a working configuration, extended with respect to the resting configuration, of such a length as to allow the tire to be surrounded, in which each flexible element is wound around the tire to form a snow chain. The rim includes at least one retaining member at a zone of its inner face, to be engaged by a portion of a flexible element in its working configuration.
Claims19
A tire rim for a motor vehicle, comprising a substantially cylindrical body for holding a tire, and a hub connected to said body by generally radial members, which rim has an outer side intended to face, in the use, the outside of the vehicle, and an inner side opposite to said outer side,
- wherein at least one elongate flexible element is associated with the rim, which element is adapted to assume a resting configuration in which it is substantially arranged within the rim, and a working configuration, extended with respect to said resting configuration and of such a length as to allow the tire to be surrounded, in which said flexible element is wound around the tire to constitute a snow chain, the rim including at least one retaining member at one zone of its inner side, which is adapted to be engaged by a portion of said flexible element in its working configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.