Bicycle wheel without an inner tire
OwnerYu-Shan Huanginventor
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Abstract
A bicycle wheel includes a wheel rim, a lining strap, and a tire. Thus, each of the edges of the lining strap is clamped in the clamping space of the respective clamping hook of the wheel rim and closely retained by the respective clamping hook of the wheel rim and the respective sidewall of the opening, and the protruding lips of the tire are movable freely on the smooth face of the lining strap, so that when the tire is subjected to an external force, the lining strap will not driven by the tire to prevent a gap from forming between the lining strap and the tire and to prevent the air contained in the tire from leaking from the mounting holes of the wheel rim.
Claims17
A bicycle wheel, comprising:
- a wheel rim formed with an opening which has two opposite sidewalls each having a distal end formed with a protruding clamping hook to define a clamping space between the clamping hook and a respective sidewall of the opening;
- a lining strap mounted in the opening of the wheel rim and having two opposite edges each clamped in the clamping space of the respective clamping hook of the wheel rim and each retained by the respective clamping hook of the wheel rim and the respective sidewall of the opening;
- a tire mounted on the wheel rim and having two opposite distal ends each formed with a protruding lip rested on a respective edge of the lining strap and hooked on the respective clamping hook of the wheel rim to attach the tire to the wheel rim;
- wherein the clamping hook of the wheel rim extends axially inwardly and radially inwardly toward the opening of the wheel rim and the lining strap;
- the clamping hook of the wheel rim has a substantially barb-shaped cross-sectional profile;
- each of the two opposite edges of the lining strap extends radially outwardly into the clamping space of the respective clamping hook of the wheel rim and completely fills the clamping space of the respective clamping hook of the wheel rim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.