Tire and wheel assembly
AssigneeDunlop Holdings Limited
InventorTom French
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Abstract
A wheel having a pair of spaced-apart seats for tire beads and annular, axially extending rim portions extending from adjacent the bead seats and forming faces against which a sidewall of a tire can be deflected and supported when the tire is deflated.
Claims8
A wheel for a single chamber pneumatic tire capable of being run in a deflated condition comprising a wheel rim having a pair of spaced apart seats for receiving the tire beads and a pair of annular flanges for preventing axial outward movement of the tire beads when the tire is inflated, each flange having a circumferentially extending substantially axially outwardly projecting portion defining a surface against which the sidewall of a tire can be supported when the tire is run deflated, each axially outwardly projecting portion having on its sidewall supporting surface a coating of a low friction material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.