The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Paul W Jones

John Ronald Abbott

Roger Alden Fleming

A device (20) for retaining the beads of a tire against the flanges of a rim. The bead retainer device (20) is capable of being manufally deformable in the axial direction. The bead retainer device is also capable of being manually deformable in the circumferential direction such as to be collapsible.

Bead retainer

A device (20) for retaining the beads of a tire against the flanges of a rim. The bead retainer device (20) is a non rubber and non metallic ring structure of a composite material. The bead retainer device (20) is capable of being manually deformable in the axial direction. The bead retainer device is also capable of being manually deformable in the circumferential direction such as to be collapsible.

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Norton, OH, United States of America

Paul W Jones