Wheel spider

A process for manufacture of a wheel with a wheel spider, whose spokes comprise one or more linearly stretched textile strands as reinforcement material of a fiber composite, the process comprising:

• preparing a mold corresponding to a rim contour having a first mold part and a second mold part, which has recesses for forming the wheel spider;
• preparing the linearly stretched textile strands;
• inserting a first wheel hub part into the first mold part, such that a continuous course of a shape of spoke segments is imaged;
• inserting already consolidated or pre-consolidated linearly stretched textile strands into the first mold part, such that at least ends of the linearly stretched textile strands are integrated into the first mold part in an undercut area and the linearly stretched textile strands extend through the hub;
• inserting the second hub part;
• closing the mold by means of joining the first mold part and the second mold part together;
• forming a reinforcement fiber structure of the rim by means of deposition of fibers onto the mold;
• joint consolidating the rim and the wheel spider;
• removing the wheel from the mold.