Method of using a Wheel Beadlock Design to attach a tire to a wheel.
An improved mechanism to secure a tire between a bead ring and a wheel utilizing a bolt is provided. The bolt has a ball seat that pivots within an enlarged pilot hole in the bead ring as the bolt threads engage in threaded section of the wheel, pulling the bead ring toward the wheel. As the bead ring is tightened upon the wheel, eventually the bead ring contacts a fulcrum on the wheel, at which point the outer edge of the bead ring is leveraged against the tire bead bundle and pressing down the tire bead to lock it in place against the wheel. As the bead ring can pivot within the enlarged pilot hole around the bolt, the bolt is not stressed. Further, the wheel comprising a safety bead and non-skid coating on the inner wall of the wheel to prevent the wheel sliding around the wheel.
1 . A method of attaching a tire to a wheel, comprising the steps of: a first step of obtaining a wheel, where the wheel has a threaded section, a bead ring, where the bead ring has a bead ring ball seat with an elongated pilot hole for bead ring attachment, and a bolt, where the bolt has a head, a bolt ball seat, a thread and a bolt pilot, where the bead ring seat has a bead ring seat shape, and the bead ring seat shape is racetrack shaped, a second step of inserting the bolt through the enlarged pilot hole such that the thread of the bolt engages the threaded section of the wheel, where the bolt ball seat nestles with the bead ring ball seat and the elongated pilot hole in the bead ring, allowing the bead ring to pivot around the bolt when the bolt tightens the bead ring against the wheel, where the thread of the bolt engages with threaded section of the wheel, a third step of rotating the head to further pull the bead ring toward the wheel, where the tire bead and the tire bead core extend into a gap between the wheel and the bead ring, a fourth step of further rotating the head such that the tire bead is compressed between the bead ring and the wheel, such that eventually the wheel contacts the bead ring at a fulcrum on the wheel, where the enlarged pilot hole allows the bead ring to pivot around the bolt at an angle between the bead ring and the wheel changes, and a fifth step of further tightening the head after a pivot point is reached, to cause the bead ring and the wheel to further compress the tire bead through leverage to put more pressure on two tire bead compressors on either side of the tire bead core, such that the tire is effectively sealed within a gap between the tire bead and the wheel.
2 . The method of claim 1 , where the head of the bolt has a shape, and the shape is hexagonal.
3 . The method of claim 1 , where the head has a number of sides, and the number of sides is greater than 3.
4 . The method of claim 1 , where the thread of the bolt has a diameter.
5 . The method of claim 4 , where the thread diameter is ¼″.
6 . The method of claim 4 , where the thread diameter is ⅜″.
7 . The method of claim 4 , where the thread diameter is 5/16″.
8 . The method of claim 1 , where the thread of the bolt has a thread density.
9 . The method of claim 8 , where the thread density is minimum 20 and maximum 28 for the thread diameter of ¼″.
10 . The method of claim 8 , where the thread density is minimum 16 and maximum 24 for the thread diameter of ⅜″.
11 . The method of claim 8 , where the thread density is minimum 18 and maximum 24 for the thread diameter of 5/16″.
12 . The method of claim 8 , where the thread density is 14 for a thread diameter of 7/16″.
13 . The method of claim 8 , where the thread density is minimum 13 and maximum 20 for a thread diameter of ½″.
14 . A method for attaching a tire to a wheel, comprising the steps of;
first, obtaining a wheel, where the wheel has a threaded section,
a bead ring, where the bead ring has a bead ring seat and an elongated pilot hole,
a bolt, where the bolt has a head, a bolt ball seat, a thread and a bolt pilot, and
a tire, where the tire has a tire bead and a tire bead bundle,
second, inserting the bolt through the elongated pilot hole into the threaded section of the wheel, where the ball seat nestles in the bead ring seat and the enlarged pilot hole in the bead ring, and, the thread of the bolt engages the threaded section, third, rotating the head of the bolt such that the head is rotated to further pull the bead ring toward the wheel, where the tire bead and the tire bead bundle extend into a gap between the wheel and the bead ring, where, as the head is further rotated, the tire bead is compressed between the bead ring and the wheel,
where, fourth, eventually the wheel contacts the bead ring at a fulcrum, where the enlarged pilot hole allows the bead ring to pivot around the bolt as an angle between the bead ring and the wheel changes, where, after a pivot point is reached, further tightening of the head causes the bead ring and the wheel to further compress the tire bead through leverage, where, the bead ring and the wheel put more pressure on tire bead compressors on either side of the tire bead bundle, such that the tire is effectively sealed within a gap between the tire bead and the wheel.
15 . The method of claim 14 , where the head has a shape, and the shape is selected from the group consisting of hexagonal and 12 point.
16 . The method of claim 14 , where the bead ring seat has a bead ring seat shape, and the bead ring seat shape is racetrack shaped.
17 . A method for attaching a tire to a wheel, comprising, first, obtaining a wheel, where the wheel has at least two threaded sections, a bead ring with at least two bead ring holes, a washer, a bolt and a tire, where the bolt has a head, a ball seat, a thread and bolt pilot where the washer has a washer seat attached to the bead ring to pivotally secure the bead ring over the tire against the wheel, second, inserting at least two bolts through at the least two bead ring holes, and inserting the thread of each of the at least two bolts through the at least two threaded sections of the wheel.
18 . The method of claim 17 , where the wheel additionally comprises a fulcrum, against which the bead ring is leveraged.
19 . The method of claim 18 , where the wheel further comprises a safety bead that prevents an inner side of the tire from moving away from an inner wall of the wheel or sliding around the wheel, where a gap wheel surface between the safety bead and the outer wheel lip has a surface provision to maximize the co-efficient of rubber to aluminum (measured RA), the surface provision prevents the tire from slipping rotationally around the wheel when the tire revolutions are quickly increased or decreased.
20 . The method of claim 19 , where the wheel has at least three threaded sections, and each of the at least three threaded sections corresponds to a matching bead ring hole.