Various types of tires, including solid tires, are well known in the art. A method for preparing solid tires which consists in making a continuous strip of tire stock, severing the strip and then placing the severed section around a rim to splice the cut edges to form a tire body is well known in the art, as described in prior U.S. Pat. No. 1,622,546 granted to G. W. Seiberling on Mar. 29, 1927. The method of U.S. Pat. No. 1,622,546 comprises the use of uncured tire stock. The uncured tire thus formed is then delivered to a mold and then vulcanized to form it into a finished tire. This may be done either off the wheel or on the wheel.
It is an object of this invention to provide a flat-less tire, made from a length cut from an indeterminate strip of tire body material, to be complete and ready for application to a wheel or rim. It is a further object of this invention to provide such a tire provided with an inner space for a conventional tire inner tube. A further object is to make such a tire in tubeless form as well as in solid and semi-solid form, and in a form comprising an inner core of soft foam material.
It is a further object to manufacture such a tire body strip of indeterminate length by means of an extrusion or molding process for extruding or molding the tire body strip out of plastic in finished form (including the threads). It is a further object of this invention to provide such an extruded plastic tire body which can be stored in reels and kept in a service station or bicycle shop or other retail outlet so that a vehicle such as a bicycle, motorcycle, automobile or the like, can be provided with a new or replacement tire from the continuous strip of material on the retail premises without the necessity of obtaining a completed tire from a factory or other distributor source.
Another object of the invention is to provide a tire body for a retail premises from which a number of wheel and rim sizes can be accommodated.
Further objects and advantages will appear in the specification hereinbelow .