Method of mounting a tire

US4516617A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Continental Gummi-Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Hans Seitz · Graz, AT
• Udo Frerichs · Langenhagen, DE
• Heinz-Dieter Rach · Garbsen, DE
• Siegmund Spendel · Gronau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 9, 1983
• Grant date: May 14, 1985
• Expiry date: Sep 9, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60C25/00
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of mounting a tire on a rim. Contemplated are vehicle wheels having rims where the seats for the tire beads are disposed along the inner periphery of the rim respectively next to a radially inwardly extending rim flange. The rims also have circumferential recessed portions which are disposed next to the seats and which have a base with a diameter which is greater than the diameter of the seats. The following method steps are involved. The rim and the tire are moved toward one another, with their axes of rotation being disposed at an angle to one another. The rim is introduced into the tire, at least one bead portion of which has assumed an oval shape. The rim is rotated. A portion of one of the beads, the seat of which extends parallel to the rim seat, is intorduced into the recessed portion of the rim. Subsequently, the rest of that bead is inserted. After the same procedure is repeated for the other bead, the tire is inflated with air, so that the beads are brought onto the rim seats.