Patent ID: 9346328
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: B60C

Claim Text:
1. A spare tire body for the tire cavity of run-flat tires, the spare tire body comprising: a plurality of combining blocks, each combining block being a hollow member that has two lateral sides thereof each provided with a through hole, a bottom thereof, and a top thereof formed as an engaging valley, each combining block having two lengthwise ends thereof located on the bottom, each lengthwise end formed with a projecting portion, the projecting portion of the first lengthwise end being on the first lateral side and the projecting portion of the second lengthwise end being on the second lateral side, each lateral side having an engaging rib formed above its through hole; two C-shaped holding pieces each having a C-shaped body formed with plural through holes and notches; a C-shaped lining piece having a C-shaped body formed with plural through holes; the spare tire body further comprising: two pairs of fine tuning members, each fine tuning member having a lengthwise body formed with plural receiving holes and a propping plate extended from an upper edge of the lengthwise body; an adjusting member being a lengthwise piece that has one end formed with one receiving hole and an opposite end formed with plural indentations; a pressing shaft being an axle received in the through holes of a first additional one of the plurality of combining blocks, having two ends thereof formed with threaded holes, and having a through hole running radially therethrough; a pressing bolt being an axle passing through the through holes provided on a second additional one of the plurality of combining blocks, having two ends thereof formed with threaded holes, and having a threaded retaining hole running radially therethrough; a pressing screw bolt being provided with plural positioning holes; and two reinforcing plates each being a lengthwise piece provided with separated locking holes; wherein the two additional ones of the plurality of combining blocks are positioned between the series combining blocks at the two ends of the C-shaped spare tire body so that all of the engaging valleys are circumferentially aligned, wherein, when the engaging valleys of all of the combining blocks of the spare tire body are engaged with hooked portions of the tire inside the tire cavity, the through holes of the series combining blocks at the two ends of the C-shaped spare tire body and the through holes of the C-shaped holding pieces and of the C-shaped lining piece are aligned with the receiving holes of the two pairs of fine tuning members, one of the respective pair of fine tuning members being on one lateral side of the respective series end combining block and the other one of the respective pair of fine tuning members being on the other lateral side of the respective series end combining block, so that screws pass through these holes and hold together the series end combining blocks, the C-shaped holding piece, the C-shaped lining piece and the fine tuning members, one of the two pairs of the fine tuning members connecting the two additional ones of the plurality of combining blocks with the two ends of the C-shaped spare tire body having the receiving holes thereof each aligned with a threaded hole of the pressing shaft fixedly held by the through holes of the first additional one of the plurality of combining blocks and the other of the two pairs of the fine tuning members connecting the two additional ones of the plurality of combining blocks with the two ends of the C-shaped spare tire body having the receiving holes thereof each aligned with a threaded hole of the pressing bolt fixedly held by the through holes of the second additional one of the plurality of combining blocks, the through hole of the pressing shaft receiving the pressing screw bolt, and the threaded retaining hole of the pressing bolt screwedly receiving the pressing screw bolt passing through the through hole of the pressing shaft, so that by screwing the pressing screw bolt in or out with respect to the threaded retaining hole, the spare tire body is finely tuned to be fittingly engaged with the hooked portions of the tire, the adjusting member and the two reinforcing plates straddling on the fine tuning members such that the receiving hole and the indentations of the adjusting member and the locking holes of the reinforcing plates are aligned with the receiving holes of the fine tuning members, screw bolts being inserted into the threaded holes of the pressing shaft and the pressing bolt to hold together the adjusting member, the two reinforcing plates and the fine tuning members, so that one of the screw bolts props against one of the positioning holes of the pressing screw bolt to prevent the pressing screw bolt from loosening and the propping plates of the fine tuning members adjacent to the adjusting member prop against the adjusting member to prevent the adjusting member from loosening, the plural receiving holes of the fine tuning members and the plural indentations of the adjusting member providing different combined distances for optional use in order to make the spare tire body fittingly engaged with the hooked portion of the tire.