A method of assembling a wheel rotatable about a main axis and having a plurality of peripheral rollers mounted on peripheral axles aligned tangentially about the wheel and radially spaced from the main axis, each peripheral axle joined to adjacent other peripheral axles to form a continuous ring comprising the peripheral axles, the method including the steps of: molding each peripheral axle in a die having a cylindrical cycle for forming the axle shaft of the peripheral axle without longitudinal separation tines, the peripheral axles each having a receiving head portion for receiving a free end of the axle shaft of an adjacent peripheral axle; mounting a roller on each axle shaft; joining the peripheral axles together to form a continuous ring of peripheral axles; and molding a wheel body including a support structure around the continuous ring.


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    WHEEL FRAME


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2016-07-07


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B60B VEHICLE WHEELS , Räder für Fahrzeuge



    Wheel Frame

    MCKINNON PETER / TAYLOR GERRY | European Patent Office | 2017

    Free access

    Wheel frame

    MCKINNON PETER R / TAYLOR GERRY | European Patent Office | 2016

    Free access

    WHEEL FRAME

    MCKINNON PETER / TAYLOR GERRY | European Patent Office | 2018

    Free access

    WHEEL FRAME

    European Patent Office | 2017

    Free access

    WHEEL FRAME COMPONENT

    MCKINNON PETER R | European Patent Office | 2017

    Free access