Patent Application
20210379930
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The disclosure relates to solid tire devices and more particularly pertains to a new solid tire device for eliminating flat tires on a vehicle.
The prior art relates to solid tire devices including a non-pneumatic tire that includes a plurality of supporting walls that define spaces within the non-pneumatic tire. The prior art discloses a solid tire that includes a tread portion which releasably engages a sidewall portion. The prior art discloses a non-pneumatic tire that includes a plurality of spoke structures that are independent from each other to facilitate compression and expansion of the tire. The prior art discloses a non-pneumatic tire that includes a plurality of concentric rings being separated from each other via nested V-shaped supports. The prior art also discloses a non-pneumatic tire that includes a pair of curved halves that can attached together to form a tire.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a tire that is defined by a plurality of concentric rings. Each of the concentric rings is comprised of a resiliently compressible material to facilitate the tire to perform similar to an inflated tire. Each of the concentric rings is comprised of a plurality of bands. Moreover, intersections between each of the bands of each of the concentric rings are staggered with respect to each of the concentric rings to enhance structural integrity of the tire.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
The plurality of concentric rings 14 includes an innermost ring 20, an outermost ring 22, a medial ring 24 and a pair of inner rings 26 each being positioned between the medial ring 24 and a respective one of the innermost ring 20 and the outermost ring 22. The innermost ring 20 has an exposed surface 28 that is directed toward a center point of the tire 12 and the outermost ring 22 has an outermost surface 30 that rolls along a support surface 32, such as a roadway or the like. Additionally, the outermost surface 30 has treads 34 integrated into the outermost surface 30 for enhancing traction of the tire 12.
The medial ring 24 has a width that is greater than any of the concentric rings 14. Each of the innermost ring 20 and the outermost ring 22 has a width that is less than any of the concentric rings 14. Moreover, each of the inner rings 26 has a width that is between the width of the medial ring 24 and the width of the innermost ring 20 and the outermost ring 22. In this way, as is most clearly shown in
In an alternative embodiment 38 as is most clearly shown in
In use, the innermost ring 20 is mounted to the rim 36 in the convention of a traditional vehicle tire. In this way the tire 12 can be mounted on a vehicle for the purposes of driving. The tire 12 can absorb nails, screws and other objects that would normally puncture an inflated tire. In this way the tire 12 eliminates the threat of a blowout or a flat tire while driving. Additionally, the resiliently compressible nature of each of the concentric rings 14 facilitates the tire 12 to simulate the ride of traditional inflated tires.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
