US 6,484,877 B1Granted

Packaging element of tire wheel

AssigneeNGK Insulators, Ltd.

InventorsYoshiharu Murakami, Akira Kurebayashi, Shigeki Urai, So Kawamura, Kunihiko Iwahara

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Abstract

A packaging assembly for efficiently packaging wheels includes multiple sheets of supporting and fixing members. A first set of wheels, each wheel having a and engaging a hub hole of one of the sheets, is located between two of the sheets. A first sheet supports a first set of wheels, and a second sheet is supported by the first set of wheels. A second set of wheels is located between the second sheet and a third sheet, each wheel of the second set including a hub engaged with a hub hole of the third sheet or of one of the first two sheets. The hub engagement of each wheel is laterally offset from the perimeter of all of the wheels of adjacent sets of wheels. The packaging includes means for preventing lateral movement of the wheels in each set.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A packaging assembly, comprising:

at least three sheets of supporting and fixing members, each sheet including plural hub holes;
a first set of plural tire wheels located between two of said sheets, each tire wheel having a hub extending therefrom and engaging a hub hole;
one of said two sheets supporting said first set of tire wheels and the other of said two sheets being supported by said first set of tire wheels;
and
a second set of plural tire wheels located between one of said two sheets and a third of said sheets, each wheel of the second set including a hub engaged with a hub hole of the third sheet or of one of the two sheets, wherein hub engagement of each wheel with a hub hole for one of the sets of tire wheels is laterally offset from the perimeter of all of the wheels of the other one of the sets;
and
means for preventing lateral movement of the tire wheels in each set.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.