Resilient tires and wheels – Tires – resilient – Pneumatic tire or inner tube
Patent
1989-12-04
1993-11-09
Knable, Geoffrey L.
Resilient tires and wheels
Tires, resilient
Pneumatic tire or inner tube
244103S, B60C 1300
Patent
active
052594319
ABSTRACT:
This invention introduces a tire for aircraft. The tire of the invention is provided with drive means to revolve the wheel of the aircraft at landing procedure before the aircraft actually touches the ground. The drive means consist of airflow responsive configurations on the tire. Preferably vanes of a specific configuration are formed on the tire to cause a bigger resistance to airflow along the tire at the bottom-most portion of the tire relative to the uppermost portion of the revolving tire. The bigger resistance of that portion of the tire which is closer to the ground forces the tire to revolve. Thereby it is possible to revolve the wheels of the aircraft automatically by the movement of the aircraft through the air and as a result thereof the wheels of the aircraft revolve at the moment of touching the ground with a speed which is substantially equal at the periphery of the tire relative to the speed of the aircraft to the ground. As far as equalness of the mentioned speeds is not fully obtained, the relative speed between the periphery of the tire and the ground at the moment of landing is reduced by the tire of the present invention.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1833019 (1931-11-01), Faucher et al.
patent: 2410625 (1946-11-01), Branner
patent: 2412033 (1946-12-01), Crosby
patent: 3233849 (1966-02-01), Rubin
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