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US 4,114,953 AGranted
Motor vehicle wheel
AssigneeBBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG
InventorHeinrich Baumgartner
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Abstract
A motor vehicle wheel, particularly a motorcycle wheel, comprising two identical, contiguous, co-axial, complementary light metal pressings or stampings fixed to a hub member, each forming half of a rim bed for a tire. The two mating wheel pressings provide a star-like wheel spider having closed hollow main and auxiliary spokes. The invention also relates to a method for the manufacture of such a vehicle wheel.
Claims9
A vehicle wheel having a rim bed, said wheel comprising two substantially identical, contiguous light metal pressings mounted on a hub member, each pressing forming a half of the rim bed, wherein:
- (a) the hub member has cylindrical centering surfaces for the pressings,
- (b) the two pressings are provided on their opposing inside surfaces with a layer of solderable material and are soldered both to the hub member and to one another at their contiguous surfaces,
- (c) the two contiguous pressings form a spoke wheel center having spokes constituted of closed hollow sections and
- (d) the spokes comprise substantially tangential main spokes and short radial auxiliary spokes, the main spokes extending inwardly from the rim bed in a direction approximately tangentially relative to the hub member and, at their innermost locations relative to the hub member, intersecting another main spoke, and the auxiliary spokes connecting radially the main spokes, at the innermost locations of the main spokes, to the hub member.
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