Hutchinson

Bernard Boni

Pascal Seradarian

Bruno Pelletier

Eric Carpentier

Didier Riquier

Andre Piton

Laurent Babillon

A device for running on a flat tire, the device being formed by a split ring or by two half-rings that are connected together end to end and clamped onto the rim of a wheel, the half-rings being made of a polyamide that is reinforced with long glass fibers and it has a T-shaped section with an outer peripheral surface that forms a tread when running on a flat tire.

Device for running on a flat tire for a motor vehicle

The improved ring device for running on a flat tire for a vehicle wheel that is provided with a tubeless tire mounted on a one-piece rim having a well-base is constituted by a one-piece split ring received inside the tire and designed to fit over at least a portion of the shape of the rim. The ring is formed with a reinforced thermoplastic resin core having a rubber annular projecting portion thereon, and it is fitted with means for fastening together the end portions of the ring and for tightening them onto the rim.

Ring device for running on a flat tire

A locking insert device for a tire chamber adapted to be fitted to a vehicle wheel provided with a tubeless tire mounted on a well or drop center rim, the device being designed to oppose the coming off of the beads of the tire from the rim in the event of a puncture of said tire, said device comprising a strip of rigid material shaped as a ring that is split parallel to the axis of the rim equipped therewith with an abutment member for a bead on one at least of its circumferential borders, the ring having a cross-section that correspond at least in part to the shape of the rim against which it is pressed and held stationary by fastening devices rendered operative after the ring has been placed on the rim.

Locking insert device for a tire chamber

A tire locking device installed inside the cover of a tire mounted on a wheel rim and exerting pressure on the beads of the cover, urged against the flanges of the rim, includes a metal strip shaped as a cylindrical ring which is split parallel to its generator lines, is provided on both circumferential edges with extrusions made of an elastomer type material. The extrusions are split level with the split in the metal strip, and a means for connecting the edges of the strip with the intrusions form an annular lock of total width which is greater than the nominal spacing between the inside faces of the beads of the cover in which the device is mounted.

Device for locking a tire

A ring device for running with a flat tire and having articulated sectors is disclosed for a vehicle wheel equipped with a tubeless tire mounted on a one-piece rim with drop center, housed inside said tire and molding itself at least partially to the shape of the rim, the external surface of said ring being distant from the internal surface of the tread of the tire as long as the latter is in its normal operating condition, wherein said ring made from a composite material with a reinforced thermoplastic resin basis is formed so as to have in its part intended to come into contact with the rim drop center a stop lip for holding a bead of the tire in position, the other bead of which is subjected to the action of an elastomer wedge provided on the diametrical face of the ring opposite that carrying the stop lip, the articulated sectors being assembled together by mechanical fixing means providing positioning of the assembly of the ring and its component parts (elastomer wedge and stop lip) during actuation thereof.

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Champagne S/oise, France

Bernard Boni