Abstract: A hub and a wheel having such a hub. The hub includes a hub shell and an axle to rotatably receive the hub shell. The hub shell is provided with circumferential hub flanges for accommodation and defined orientation of a plurality of spokes. Each of the spokes includes a spoke body and a spoke head. The hub flanges include a plurality of accommodation sections to receive one spoke head each. The accommodation sections are axially disposed on the hub flanges. Each of the accommodation sections has one spoke feed-through assigned to it, through which an accommodated spoke can be guided out of the accommodation section. Two spoke feed-throughs each are provided with one joint and circumferentially closed outlet opening in the hub flanges. The hub flanges enclose the outlet opening integrally.

Abstract: A vehicle wheel, comprising a rim, a hub, a plurality of spokes extending between the rim and hub, a bracing element including a hole with a central axis, a sidewall, a longitudinally inward entrance, and at least one of an engagement surface and an engagement edge outward of the entrance, a connecting element comprising a multiplicity of discreet segments. The bracing element comprises at least a portion of one of the rim and hub. At least one segment includes a laterally projecting overhanging surface. The first segment is positioned within the hole, with the overhang surface overlying one of the engagement surface and engagement edge in an overlie engagement. The second segment is positioned within the hole to include an opening between the first and second segments. The spoke is positioned within the opening and is connected to the connecting element with the overlie engagement to support spoke tensile load.

Abstract: A wheel of the bicycle wheel type includes a rim (200), a hub (10) with an axis (100) corresponding to the axis of the wheel, the hub including a left flange (11) and a right flange (12). The wheel includes an arrangement of rim-hub-rim connecting elements on at least one flange of the hub, which includes at least two sets of at least two rim-hub-rim connecting elements ((51-52; 53-54); (55-56; 57-58)), in the form of opposing spokes or rods, and in which the elements of each set are in planes situated on either side of the axis of the wheel and parallel to the axis.

Abstract: Large impacts act on a spoke wheel and spokes fastened by nipples tend to be loosened when a racing off-road motorcycle and the like repeatedly jumps and lands. A hub is connected with a rim by using deformed spokes each having a deformed portion. The deformed spoke is fastened while being elastically deformed so that the deformed portion extends by the nipple. As compared to a straight spoke, the deformed spoke has low longitudinal elastic modulus and substantially the same stiffness with a spoke having an equal diameter.

Abstract: A spoke receiving hole is perforated through a flange formed on a rim so as to incline by a predetermined angle in a radial direction with respect to a line perpendicular to a wheel center plane. A head of a spoke seats on a seating surface provided on one side surface of the spoke receiving hole in contact at a region I on the side closer to a rim body and a head straight portion of the spoke contacts with an edge portion K of an opening on the side distant from the rim body to which a hole portion directly opens on the opposite side from the seating surface of the spoke receiving hole.

Abstract: Wire wheel assembly apparatus for, and a method of providing, a wire wheel assembly for use with a tubeless tire. A wire wheel element comprises a wheel centre element, a spoke ring element, and a plurality of spoke elements extending between the wheel centre element and the spoke ring element. The spoke ring element is configured to allow a first rim element comprising a first rim tire flange and a second rim element comprising a second rim tire flange to be assembled with said wire wheel element into a wire wheel assembly in which a tire receiving region is defined between said first rim tire flange and said second rim tire flange. A first rim element and a second rim element configured to be assembled with said wire wheel element. A sandwich arrangement and a cantilever arrangement of a wire wheel assembly are disclosed. A split-rim wire wheel is disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bicycle wheel repair kit for joining a first segment of a spoke to a second segment of the spoke, the first segment extending radially outward from a wheel hub to terminate in a first free end and the second segment extending radially inward from a wheel rim to terminate in a second free end. The kit may include a coupler including a first engagement member and a second engagement member. The first engagement member is configured to engage the first free end. The second engagement member is generally opposite the first engagement member and configured to engage the second free end. The coupler is configured such that a distance between the first engagement member and the second engagement member can be adjusted.

Abstract: A spoke assembly for wheels includes multiple spokes connected between the rim and the hub, and each spoke comprises multiple wires and a first end piece and a second end piece are connected to two ends of the spoke. The first end piece includes an elongate first shank with a first reception hole so as to securely receive the first end of the steel cable. The first shanks securely extend through the holes of the hub. The second end piece includes an elongate second shank with a second reception hole in which the second end of the spoke is securely received. A locking member extends through each of the holes in the rim and is threadedly connected to the second end piece.

Abstract: Large impacts act on a spoke wheel and spokes fastened by nipples tend to be loosened when a racing off-road motorcycle and the like repeatedly jumps and lands. A hub is connected with a rim by using deformed spokes each having a deformed portion. The deformed spoke is fastened while being elastically deformed so that the deformed portion extends by the nipple. As compared to a straight spoke, the deformed spoke has low longitudinal elastic modulus and substantially the same stiffness with a spoke having an equal diameter.

Abstract: An improved vehicle wheel, including a rim, a hub with a central axle and an outer flange, a plurality of spokes extending between the rim and hub and a connecting element connected to at least one of the spokes. The spoke is a generally slender element with a longitudinal axis with a span portion between the rim and hub and a tensile axis of applied tensile load along the span portion. At least one of said rim and hub constitutes a bracing element. The connecting element includes an external surface and an internal cavity with an internal surface adjacent said spoke. The connecting element is joined to the spoke by means of a crimped joinder such that said external surface is pressed inwardly to plastically deform said connecting element to displace the internal surface toward the spoke. The crimped joinder supports tensile load through an engagement interface.

Abstract: A bicycle wheel with a tri-flange hub includes a hub with a first flange, second flange, and a third flange. The rim of the bicycle wheel is connected to the first, second and third flanges by spokes. The third flange is located on the hub along a centerline which passes through the center of the rim.

Abstract: A bicycle wheel assembly having a number of spokes that extends between a hub and a rim. The wheel assembly includes a drive side that faces a chain and a non-drive side that is laterally spaced from the drive side. The spokes that extend between the hub and the rim on the drive side of the wheel assembly are oriented in a series of radial spokes and one-cross spoke pairs. Preferably, the drive side spokes are oriented in a repeating pattern. The non-drive side spokes are oriented in a repeating pattern wherein each spoke crosses more than one other non-drive side spoke. A wheel having such a spoke lacing pattern is lightweight and robust.

Abstract: A spoked wheel is described that uses flexible spokes having a termination on each end that couple with a rim using nipples. The flexible spokes are supported mid-span by a hub flange cradle that transfers torque from the hub to the rim via two sub-spokes. The hub flange cradle determines whether a sub-spoke is tangential or radial. A plurality of spokes may be used on each side of the wheel. Spoke tensegrity couples the hub to the rim.

Abstract: A spoked wheel for a bicycle is described, including a hub, a rim, and a plurality of spokes, which connect the hub to the rim. The spokes are arranged in groups set at an angular distance from one another. At least two spokes of each group, viewed in the direction of the axis of the wheel, cross over one another.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a rim ring for a tire rim, in particular for a wired-on tire rim, with the following steps: providing an outer rim profile made of hardened composite fibrous material, providing a plastic shaping element, providing at least one top layer made of composite fibrous material, inserting the plastic shaping element radially within the outer rim profile, and positioning the top layer relative to the plastic shaping element and to the outer rim profile such that at least part of the top layer extends from the plastic shaping element onto the outside of the outer rim profile. The present invention further relates to a method for fastening spokes made of composite fibrous material to a rim ring. Finally, the present invention also relates to a rim ring, a wired-on tire rim and a bicycle with wired-on tire rims.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel including a rim, a hub, at least one spoke connecting the rim to the hub, the spoke being made of composite material. Each spoke of the wheel includes a device enabling a reversible connection with the hub of the wheel, the connection device being at least partially incorporated within the spoke by co-molding therewith.

Abstract: A pull-type hub for a bicycle includes hub body, two bearings mounted in the hub body, and two bearing seats mounted in the hub body and each located between the hub body and a respective bearing. Thus, when each of the two opposite sides of the hub body is subjected to an outwardly pulled radial stress applied by the spokes, each of the bearing seats is located between the hub body and the respective bearing to eliminate the radial stress applied on each of the two opposite sides of the hub body by the spokes, so that each of the bearings is mounted in the hub body closely and will not be loosened from the hub body easily.

Abstract: A spoke for a bicycle wheel has an elongated metallic material body that extends along a longitudinal axis X-X and has a first end portion for the attachment to a hub of a bicycle wheel, a second end portion for the attachment to a rim of a bicycle wheel and an intermediate portion having a portion which is flattened in a transversal direction Z perpendicular to the longitudinal axis X-X and extending along the longitudinal axis X-X up to the first end portion. The first end portion of the spoke is also flattened in the transversal direction Z and is gradually joined to the flattened portion of the intermediate portion along the longitudinal axis X-X.

Abstract: A spoked wheel comprises a rim, a hub, wishbone shaped spokes, nipples, and eyelets. There is true pairing of the spokes, because the rim has half the number of spoke attachments as there are nipples. True paired spoking means that there are no side wobble forces or rim twist caused by spoke tension. The rim has spoke attachment holes that are parallel to the axis of wheel rotation and are reinforced with eyelets. The rim has unnecessary material cut away between the spoke attachment holes. To ease adjustment, the nipples are located about midway between the hub and the rim. The hub has longitudinal ribs and that are aligned with each other. That allows the hub body to be machined from a relatively lightweight extrusion. To increase the wheel strength, the inboard spokes are moved outboard as much as possible. The hub has pairs of nipple attachment holes where each pair is located on a diagonal relative to the axis of the hub.

Abstract: A spoked wheel for a bicycle is described herein, comprising a hub, a rim and a plurality of spokes that connect the hub to the rim. The spokes comprise a first set of spokes arranged on one side of the wheel, made up of spokes connected to a first portion of the hub, and a second set of spokes arranged on the other side of the wheel, made up of spokes connected to a second portion of the hub. The second hub portion is set at an axial distance from said first portion. The spokes of the first set are grouped together into pairs set at angular distances apart from one another with the spokes of each pair that have their outer ends set close to one another.

Abstract: A spoked wheel comprised of a hub and a rim connected by first and second sets of spokes, each set having a plurality of radial spokes and a plurality of non-radial spokes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a layered universal, multi-functional, common conductive shield structure with conductive pathways for energy and EMI conditioning and protection that also possesses a commonly shared and centrally positioned conductive pathway or electrode of the structure that can simultaneously shield and allow smooth energy interaction between grouped and energized conductive pathway electrodes. The invention, when energized, will allow the contained conductive pathways or electrodes to operate with respect to one another harmoniously, yet in an oppositely phased or charged manner, respectively. The invention will also provide EMI filtering and surge protection while maintaining apparent even or balanced voltage supply between a source and an energy utilizing-load when placed into a circuit and energized.

Abstract: A bicycle hub is provided for use with tangential bicycle spokes. The bicycle hub includes a hub axle and a hub body. The hub axle has a set of spoke openings. The spoke openings are circumferentially arranged around the hub body and extend between the external and internal surfaces. Each of the spoke openings has an enlarged insertion portion and a retaining portion. An internal head receiving seat is preferably located adjacent each of the retaining portions. An internal abutment is preferably arranged between each of the insertion portions and each of the head receiving seats. The external surface, the head receiving seats and the abutments are configured to retain the bent ends of the spokes. The external surface preferably has a flute portion extending from each of the retaining portions. The retaining portions and the flute portions are configured to retain the bent ends of the spokes.

Abstract: A bicycle hub is provided for use with tangential bicycle spokes having a straight section and a bent end with an enlarged head such that straight section extends at an angle of about 95° relative to the bent end. The bicycle hub basically has a hub axle and a hub body. The hub axle has a center axis extending between a first end and a second end. The hub body has an interior passageway with the hub axle being rotatably supported therein. The hub body also has a set of first spoke openings circumferentially arranged around the hub body. Each of the first spoke openings having an insertion portion with a large width that permits the enlarged head of a tangential spoke to pass therethrough and a retaining portion with a width that is smaller than the width of the insertion portion to retain the enlarged head of the tangential spoke therein.

Abstract: A spoke wheel is provided which includes a hub and a rim concentric with the hub about an axis of rotation. The rim is connected to the hub by a plurality of detachable spokes. The rim has a first tubular portion, a second tubular portion, a first flange, and a second flange. The first tubular portion is arranged between the first flange and a wheel center plane which is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the wheel. The second tubular portion is arranged between the second flange and the wheel center plane. Each of the tubular portions has an outer lateral wall having a plurality of throughholes for the detachable spokes. Each of the throughholes has a longitudinal axis aligned with the longitudinal axis of each of the detachable spokes.

Abstract: A spoke for a bicycle wheel has a body of fiber reinforced plastic material provided at one end with a metal connecting element which is pivotally mounted on the spoke around an axis which is transverse relative to the spoke and having a threaded stem for connection to the wheel rim.

Abstract: A hub for aligning a plurality of spokes on a spoked wheel. The hub has a cylindrical hub sleeve and a hub axis extending centrally through the hub sleeve. The hub includes a flange-type hub head disposed at one end of the hub sleeve and extending circumferentially about the hub axis. The hub head defines a plurality of guide slots, each of the plurality of spoke guide slots being dimensioned and configured to receive and orient each of the plurality of spokes along a radial plane of the hub head such that the plurality of spokes define a plurality of tangent lines around an imaginary circle centered at the hub axis and that the tangent lines form a polygon centered at the hub axis.

Abstract: A device for rotatably supporting a hub of a bicycle wheel on a shaft comprises at least one annular element with an outer conical surface which is pressed between the outer surface of shaft and the inner conical surface of the inner ring of a rolling bearing.

Abstract: A drive mechanism for a driven member having a hub and rim coaxial with and supported by the hub includes at least two transmission cables which extend between the hub and the rim. One end of each transmission cable is secured to the hub and extends from the hub over a guiding sheave journalled within a pulley block fastened to the rim and then extends from the pulley block to the next contiguous pulley block in a direction opposite to that in which the driven member is to be rotated, The distal end of the transmission cable is attached to this next contiguous pulley block. Tensioners are provided for pre-tensioning each cable. The driven member can be the rear wheel of a bicycle whereby the extension of the cables can provide a lag between the turning of the hub and the rim, thereby effectively providing variable output.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing structural components for any type of vehicles and other devices, in particular cars and motorcycles, where the components can operate under compressive and/or extensive stress or successive repetitions thereof, in which method two or more spools in a fixed, predetermined spatial placement, are used as starting elements, with the formation of rigid rods of yarn therebetween, the rods being built up by the winding of the yarn around and between the spools to form a component which may be in either finished or unfinished form.

Abstract: A hub for a spoked wheel includes an annular peripheral portion having an outer surface, an inner surface, and a peripheral edge, wherein the inner surface and the outer surface define non-parallel planes, and wherein the inner surface forms an acute angle with respect to the rotational axis defined by the hub, whereby the peripheral portion is thickest along the peripheral edge, and tapers to a reduced thickness at a constant radius from the peripheral edge. First and second pluralities of spoke attachment apertures extend through the outer and inner surfaces, the first plurality of spoke attachment apertures providing attachment points for a plurality of outer spokes on the outer surface and the second plurality of spoke attachment apertures providing attachment points for a plurality of inner spokes on the inner surface.

Abstract: A method of producing injection molded in-line skate wheels is disclosed. The method includes heating an injection molding unit suitable for injecting molten polyurethane, placing a thermoplastic polyether type polyurethane into the unit and heating the polyurethane until it is molten or at about 380.degree. to about 460.degree. F. A polyurethane hub is placed in a mold whereby the mold and hub are of shapes and sizes suitable for producing in-line skate wheels. The hub-containing mold is heated to about 50.degree. to about 100.degree. F. in order to prevent the molten polyurethane from prematurely hardening. Once the mold is heated, about 46 to about 50 g of polyurethane is injected into the mold at about 75 to about 100 psi. The polyurethane is cooled to about 120.degree. to about 130.degree. F. to allow the polyurethane to harden and the resulting wheel is removed from the mold.

Abstract: Several embodiments of wire wheel arrangements embodying a hub portion, a rim portion and a plurality of spoke pairs for interconnecting the hub and rim portions. In accordance with all embodiments of the invention, the spoke pairs are comprised of ends that are integrally connected by an intermediate portion. The outer ends of the end portions are connected to the rim portion by nipples and the intermediate portion is connected to the hub portion to complete the assembly. Various preferred geometric relationships are disclosed as are arrangements for affixing the intermediate portions to the hub portion.

Abstract: A wire wheel construction consisting of a rim, a hub having a pair of spaced flanges and pairs of spokes that are fixed at their opposite ends to the rim and at an intermediate portion to a respective flange of the hub. The arrangement is such that the end connections of the spokes to the rim may be on the same side of the center line of the rim as the respective connecting flange of the hub.

Abstract: A hub for a two or three wheel vehicle has at each axial side of a hub shell a respective hub flange which has first and second recessed portions displaced axially inwardly and outwardly of the hub shell. A first group of spoke bores comprising every other spoke bore of a hub flange is provided at the first portions while a second group of spoke bores each of which is arranged adjacent a spoke bore of the first group is provided at the second portions so that all the spokes used to form a wheel may be inserted into the bores from the axially inside side of each hub flange and drawn out from the axially outside side thereof.

Abstract: Spoked wheel particularly for miniature vehicles, comprising a tubular member constituting the wheel hub. At one end the latter is provided with an outer collar. A washer is laid over the tubular member. A sleeve overlies the tubular member between the washer and the collar such as to define two respective annular grooves therebetween. A pair of rims is arranged concentrically with the tubular member and having an inner edge which defines an axially projecting annular ridge. The rims are arranged in a mirror image relationship to each other, so that they also act as shoulder members for the beads of the wheel tire. A ring spacer concentrical to the tubular member and intervening between the rims, defines together with the rims respective annular seats. A pair of spoke-carrying rings is positioned within the annular seats and each provided with circumferentially arranged projections at equal angles apart for hooking a bent over wire over and around the projections.