Vehicle and deformable wheel therefor

Claim 1

AN OCCUPANT CONTROLLED AND PROPELLED VEHICLE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION; A VEHICLE FRAME; SEAT MEANS SUPPORTED BY THE FRAME; A PAIR OF SPACED APART DRIVE WHEELS ROTATABLY ATTACHED TO OPPOSING SIDES OF THE VEHICLE FRAME, SAID WHEELS EACH INCLUDING; AN ARTICULATED RIM HAVING A PLURALITY OF ARC SHAPED RIM SECTIONS INTERJOINED AT THEIR ENDS AND FORMING A DEFORMABLE CIRCLE; A PAIR OF MUTUALLY PERPENDICULAR DIAMETRIC STRUTS PIVOTALLY ATTACHED TO THE RIM AT DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED POINTS; A PAIR OF MUTUALLY PERPENDICULAR SLEEVES IN WHICH THE SAID TWO STRUTS ARE SLIDABLY DISPOSED, SAID SLEEVES BEING RIGIDLY INTERCONNECTED AT THEIR LONGITUDINAL MIDPOINTS; A HUB ATTACHED TO ONE OF SAID SLEEVES; LOCKING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SLEEVES FOR INTERCONNECTING THE SLEEVES AND STRUTS TO PREVENT RELATIVE MOVEMENT THEREBETWEEN; A PAIR OF ROTATABLE CASTERS; SWIVEL MEANS ATTACHING SAID CASTERS TO THE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE FRAME; A PAIR OF OPPOSED STABILIZING WHEELS; AND EXTENSIBLE STRUT MEANS ATTACHED TO THE FRONT PORTION OF THE VEHICLE FRAME AND ROTATABLY CARRYING THE STABILIZING WHEELS.