Patent ID: 8082962

Claim:
A sealing ring for a vehicle wheel having a tubeless pneumatic tire with two tire beads formed on a radially inner side and by which the tubeless pneumatic tire is mounted on a radial outer side of a multiple part rim, comprising: the sealing ring sealing the pneumatic tire radially inward toward the multiple part rim and arranged on the radial outer side of the rim, extending over a circumference of the rim in a circumferential direction and extending between the two tire beads of the pneumatic tire in the axial direction; the sealing ring being configured with a central annular body comprising a cylindrical inner face for seating on a rim outer face and configured with a concentric flexible annular limb on both axial sides of the central annular body, each annular limb extending obliquely radially outward in an axial direction from the central annular body and containing therein no reinforcement; and concentrically arranged projecting deformable sealing elements formed at an end of each annular limb which points away from the central annular body, wherein, when the sealing ring is in an un-installed state, each of the deformable sealing elements are arranged on and project from a radially inwardly pointing surface arranged between the central annular body and the end of each annular limb, and wherein, in the un-installed state, a free end of a first of the deformable sealing elements comprises a diameter that is less than a diameter of a free end of a second of the deformable sealing elements and the first deformable sealing element is arranged closer to the central annular body than the second deformable sealing element.