Aircraft Braking Systems Corporation

Goodyear Aerospace Corporation

Donald H Smith

Richard J Frank

Kenneth D Everhard

An inflation valve having overpressure protection has an inflation core which is coaxial with an exhaust port, both of which are coaxial with an exhaust plenum maintained within a body portion of the inflation valve. The inflation core communicates with a circular chamber which also communicates with radial passages extending within the base portion to an annular chamber which communicates with radial passages which interconnect with the wheel entry port. The exhaust plenum is sealed from the wheel entry port and the pressure of the associated tire by a rupture disk. Exhaust ports extend through the body portion of the valve from the exhaust plenum to atmosphere. When an overpressure condition exists within the tire, exceeding the characteristic pressure of the rupture disk, the rupture disk opens and allows the pressure within the tire envelope to escape through the wheel entry port, exhaust plenum, and exhaust ports. An elastomeric band or sleeve is received about the body portion 12 and over the exhaust port to seal them from dirt and the ambient until such time that the band is blown away or otherwise disturbed when the rupture disk opens on an overpressure condition.

Inflation valve having over pressure protection

This invention provides an improved aircraft wheel rim wherein a demountable tire bead flange has an annular chamfer within the outboard end of the flange bore, and a split lockring which cooperates to maintain the flange on the wheel rim body has an outer surface chamfer which matches the flange bore chamfer, the angle of the flange bore and lockring surface chamfers being determined by the coefficient of friction of the material comprising the wheel rim assembly such that a compressive wedge-locking load force exists at the chamfer joint as may be imposed by inflation of a rim-mounted tire.

Configuration for demountable wheel rim flange/split lockring assemblies

A split retaining ring 60 locking a separable tire bead flange 14 on a wheel rim 10 has inboard 60a and outboard 60b facing portions and circumferentially aligned terminal ends 40, 50, each terminal end characterized by a drilled-through bore 46, 56 extending in the axial direction of the ring from the inboard facing portion to the outboard facing portion. A lockwire 70 is positioned through each drilled bore 46, 56 to retain the terminal ends 40, 50 of the split ring in a predetermined circumferential spaced-apart relationship.

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Cuyahoga Falls, OH, United States of America

Donald H Smith