Patent ID: 7104300

Claim:
A sealing strip for a rim of a wheel, the sealing strip being adapted to be positioned upon an outer annular channel of the rim, the outer annular channel being adapted to have a tire mounted thereon, the outer annual channel having an upper bridge with a central well bordered by opposite lateral edges and a pair of opposite lateral flanges substantially parallel to a radial plane of the rim, with the lateral flanges having laterally opposed lips on upper ends of the flanges, said sealing strips comprising: a continuous annular strip; in cross section, the annular strip of the sealing strip comprising: a generally U-shaped groove having a shape to adapt the sealing strip to be engaged in a central well of the rim; two lateral extensions extending laterally outwardly from said groove adapted to lie upon the opposite lateral edges of the rim; two walls extending generally radially from said lateral extensions, said two walls adapted to be positioned along the lateral flanges of the rim; two lips extending laterally inwardly from respective ones of said two walls, said two lips of the sealing strip adapted to be positioned radially inward and beneath the laterally opposed lips of the upper ends of the flanges of the rim, each of said two lips of the sealing strip having a generally radially inwardly facing tire retaining surface.