摘要 |
PURPOSE:To enable spare tires to be easily housed and taken out by providing a spiral ramp on a vertical wall of a recess formed on a floor and a spare tire mounting turn table provided with rollers engaging the ramp to move vertically and rotatably the turn table in the recess. CONSTITUTION:A recess 12 for housing a spare tire 11 is formed on a floor 10 of a trunk room. Ramps 14 are formed on the vertical wall 13 of the recess, the respective upper ends of which ae provided with locking indentations 15. Also, rollers 17 engaging the ramps 14 are rotatably provided on the periphery of a turn table 16 for mounting the spare tire on the upper surface side. And in the center of the recess 12 is projectingly provided a tapered fixed bracket 24 inserted through a spring 27 into an opening 18 of the turn table 16. Thus, when the spare tire 11 is housed, the turn table 16 is rotated to lower the rollers 17 along the ramps 14 while rolling them, and the spare tire 11 is secured fixedly to a fixed bracket 24 with a mounting bolt 26. |