Wheel
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsStephen C. Mitchell, Arthur P. Adamson, Max F. Grandey, Lewis J. Stoffer
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Abstract
A wheel comprising a plurality of wheel plies, each wheel ply including concentric inner and outer hoops and a plurality of circumferentially spaced spoke loops therebetween, wherein each of the spoke loops is entrapped within the hoops. In one embodiment the wheel comprises a laminate of alternating wheel plies and intermediate plies bonded together. A spoked frame comprising one or more of the wheels is provided, the frame including fairing means to substantially envelope the spokes and retain the individual wheels in their proper spacial relationship.
Claims16
A spoked frame comprising:
- a plurality of axially displaced wheels having a common hub axis, at least one of said wheels comprising a laminate of a plurality of wheel plies and intermediate plies in axially alternating relationship and bonded together, wherein
- said wheel plies each include an inner hoop, a radially displaced outer hoop and a plurality of circumferentially spaced continuous spoke loops, each of said loops partially entrapped within said inner hoop and said outer hoop and forming pairs of spokes extending therebetween;
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- said intermediate plies each comprise a unitized spoked ply of substantially the same contour as said wheel plies;
- fairing means to substantially envelope said spokes;
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- retainer means to retain said wheels in a predetermined axial relationship to each other.
A wheel comprising a laminate of a plurality of wheel plies and intermediate plies in alternating relationship, wherein
- said wheel plies include an inner hoop, a radially displaced coaxial outer hoop, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced continuous spoke loops, each of said loops being partially entrapped within said inner hoop and said outer hoop and forming a pair of spokes extending therebetween;
- said intermediate plies comprise spoked plies of substantially the same contour as said wheel plies.
A wheel comprising a laminate of a plurality of wheel plies, said wheel plies including:
- an inner hoop;
- a radially displaced coaxial outer hoop;
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- a plurality of circumferentially spaced, continuous filament, spoke loops, wherein each of said loops is partially entrapped within said inner hoop and outer hoop and each spoke loop forms a pair of spokes extending therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.