Rotating aircraft tire/landing gear apparatus

Details Rotating aircraft tire/landing gear apparatus Rotating aircraft tire/landing gear apparatus

1992-04-10

1993-05-25

Peters, Jr., Joseph F.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Landing gear

Wheel

B64C 2540

Patent

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052132854

ABSTRACT:
An aircraft tire and an associated landing gear apparatus which rotate a wheel of a landing aircraft prior to contact between the wheel and a runway. The tire possesses an array of projections which have a forward face for catching air and which are molded into the tire in at least one channel circling the tire tread on at least one sidewall of the tire. The tire preferably possesses one or more belts underneath those projections situated in channels to protect the integrity of the tire's shape. A landing gear apparatus which may be used in conjunction with the aircraft tire comprises a duct mounted adjacent to the tire which receives air, reroutes it, and releases it into at least some of the forward faces of the projections so as to effect a further forward rotational force on the tire and wheel.

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patent: 2383662 (1945-08-01), McClaskey
patent: 3529792 (1970-09-01), MacMahon
patent: 3568747 (1971-03-01), Fletcher et al.
patent: 3773283 (1973-11-01), Abplanalp
patent: 3814354 (1974-06-01), Reese
patent: 4061294 (1977-12-01), Hawkins
patent: 4385739 (1983-05-01), Soderberg

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