To provide a tire/rim assembly enabling sealant contained inside it to be easily recovered.
A tube 20 for use in recovering sealant 16 inside a tire is fixed to the end part of a tire valve 18 inside the tire. In order to recover the sealant 16 from inside a tire-rim assembly 10, the tire/rim assembly 10 is set upright and the sealant 16 is accumulated at the lower part (bottom part) in the tire. A valve core is removed from the tire valve 18, one end of a tube 22 is connected and the other end of the tube 22 is connected to a resilient deformable container 24. The container 24 is compressed with a hand and the like and resiliently deformed, and subsequently the hand is relaxed to release the container 24. Thereby the container 24 is expanded to decrease a pressure at the container, so that the sealant 16 is sucked into the container 24 through the tube 20, tire valve 18 and tube 22.
SAKINO YOSHIKAZU
EGUCHI SHINICHI
Kato Kazunori
Katsuichi Nishimoto
Hiroshi Fukuda
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