Patent ID: 7469732
Filing Date: 2008-12-30
Classification: B60B

Abstract:
1. Device ( 1 , 101 , 201 , 301 ) designed to be fitted into a well ( 15 ) of a one-piece wheel rim ( 10 ) so as to prevent a tire fitted onto said rim from rolling off this rim, said device comprising a belt ( 2 , 102 , 202 , 302 ) having two ends ( 131 , 132 or 331 , 332 ) and a connecting means ( 140 , 340 ) for connecting said ends together, which means is intended to clamp said belt of annular shape around said well, characterized in that said belt includes a plurality of filling elements ( 20 , 120 , 220 , 320 ) between said ends, which are designed to at least partly fill said well, at least three filling elements being circumferentially spaced apart from one another and being connected together by at least one flexible linking element ( 30 , 130 , 230 , 330 ), which extends over the entire perimeter of said belt and terminates at said two ends, said at least one linking element forming at least two spaced apart ring sectors between adjacent filling elements.