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US 6,105,642 AGranted
Protective liner for bicycle tires
OwnerWayne E. Carson, William C. Shawinventors
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Abstract
Protective liner for bicycle or motorcycle tires with a flexible, extruded U shaped length of PVC foam that conforms to the inner diameter of a conventional bicycle tire, a method of curving the U shaped extruded foam liner so that it takes on the diameter of a bicycle tire, and a method of inserting the U shaped extruded liner into a bicycle tire. A preferred embodiment includes the liner is made of PVC foam nitrile polymer type 3pns322 from Kirkhill Rubber.
Claims1
A protective liner for a bicycle or motorcycle tire, comprising:
- an elongated piece of PVC nitrile elastomer foam with a U-shaped cross section adapted to be positioned between a tire casing and an inner tube for spacing said inner tube from said tire casing, thereby preventing puncture of said inner tube by a sharp object piercing said tire casing, said PVC nitrile elastomer foam having enough resistance to excess compression for generally resisting a reduction in a distance between said tire casing and said inner tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.