Covering ring for a vehicle wheel

US4563042A · 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: Oct 7, 1983
• Grant date: Jan 7, 1986
• Expiry date: Oct 7, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S152/20
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A covering ring for a vehicle wheel. The bead seating surfaces of a tire are mounted on the radially inner periphery of the rim. In order to prevent dirt and/or water from entering the space between the tire bead and the rim well, the covering ring has a width which covers the space between the tire bead, that portion of the rim which extends axially outwardly from the rim well, and the rim well. Also, provision is made that the radially inner surface of the covering ring, when viewed in the transverse direction, extends horizontally or is laterally inclined toward the outside. Also, provision is made that the radially inner diameter of the covering ring at no point of the space, which is to be covered, be greater than the radially inner diameter of the mounted tire in the bead region.