Solid tire
AssigneeFukunaga Engineering Co., Ltd.
InventorMuneyasu Fukunaga
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Abstract
A solid tire which is high in load-bearing capacity, while maintaining as high a resilience as a conventional hollow tire, and capable of sufficiently absorbing shocks while the vehicle is traveling with no cargo. It has an annular rubber member fitted in a rim of a wheel, and a tire fitted on the annular rubber member around its outer periphery. The annular rubber member has a groove formed in the outer surface thereof so as to extend along a ridge circling the outer surface of the annular rubber member. The groove expands axially of the tire toward the rim. When a small, impulsive load is applied to the annular rubber member, its portions on both sides of the groove are resiliently bent to absorb the load. When a larger load is applied continuously for a long time, the entire annular rubber member is resiliently compressed to bear the load.
Claims16
A solid tire comprising:
- an annular rubber member adapted to be mounted on a rim of a wheel;
- and
- a tire detachably fitted on an outer peripheral surface of said annular rubber member in order to cover only a part of said outer peripheral surface of said annular rubber member,
- said annular rubber member having an annular groove which is open along an outer circumferential location of said annular rubber member, wherein said annular groove has an enlarged inner circumferential end.
A solid tire comprising:
- an annular rubber member adapted to be fitted directly on a rim of a wheel;
- and
- a tire detachably fitted on an outer peripheral surface of said annular rubber member in order to cover only a part of said outer peripheral surface of said annular rubber member,
- said annular rubber member having an annular slit extending from a central outer peripheral surface of said annular rubber member toward a central axis of said tire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.