Abstract:
Confluent ply pneumatic tires including a tire carcass having a crown area and a tire tread on the tire carcass which includes a plurality of confluent two piece plies, each confluent ply piece being anchored at the opposite side of said carcass thereof, one to each of the tire beads and with the tire cords being positioned in the cured tire at uniform bias angles between 2.degree. and 29.degree. inclusive to a radial line at the center line area of the carcass. These "confluent ply" assemblies have each piece extend from one bead up to and across the crown area to terminate short of the opposite tire sidewall, the tire having the cords in these bias plies at the center crown area at one specific bias angle to a tire radius line where all of such cord angles of each individual "confluent ply" piece are inclined in one rotary direction of the tire. The pneumatic tire carcass of the invention may include a plurality of "confluent ply" cord assemblies wherein the cord angles of said ply assemblies are inclined in opposite rotary direction to an even number or to the majority of the confluent plies in the tire and carcasses also may include conventional belt plies and known reinforcing plies positioned therein in normal manners.
Abstract:
A light weight pneumatic tire having a thin side wall rubber is disclosed. The thin side wall rubber has previously been squeezed on that region of the outer surface of an upper ply which corresponds to the side wall portion of the tire prior to the tire shaping step, and has a Shore A hardness after vulcanization of 40.degree. to 55.degree., an excellent flex-cracking and weather resistant property. The upper ply is superimposed about at least a portion extending from a hump portion to a bead portion is composed of cords coated with a high resilient rubber. A tread rubber layer is extended across the thin side wall rubber layers and pressed and made integral therewith by stitching.
Abstract:
A pneumatic run flat tire for motorcycles having a high handling stability during straight and zigzag runnings, cornering stability and durability, even when the tire is punctured while running and the pneumatic pressure inside of the tire becomes equal to atmospheric pressure. The run flat tire has a pair of sidewall-reinforcing layers, each comprising an elastic filler extending from an end location adjacent a bead core in a bead portion to the other end location in a tread portion through a sidewall portion of the tire, the elastic filler being reinforced with at least two reinforcing plies, one of which extends along one side surface of the elastic filler toward the tread portion, and then, additionally extends into the tread portion, and the other one of which extends along the other side surface of the elastic filler toward the bead portion, and the, additionally extends into the tread portion.
Abstract:
A bias-ply pneumatic tire comprises a tire cover having a thread portion, a pair of opposed side walls integral with the tread portion and a pair of opposed bead portions integral with the respective side walls and adapted to firmly engage with associated rim flanges of a wheel rim. Each of the bead portions includes at least one bead core embedded therein. The tire cover includes a bias-ply carcass structure composed of a plurality of carcass plies laid on a bias at a predetermined angle with respect to the midcircumferential plane of the tire. At least one of the carcass plies in the tire cover has its opposed ends each terminating, without being turned up around and anchored to the corresponding bead core, in a region between the corresponding bead core and a lower portion of the corresponding side wall while the other of the carcass plies have their opposed ends each being turned up around and anchored to the corresponding bead core, thereby terminating at a position adjacent the boundary between the side wall and the bead portion.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire for use on a motorcycle, comprising a tire cover having a tread portion, a pair of opposed side walls integral with the tread portion and a pair of opposed bead portions integral with the respective side walls and adapted to firmly engage with associated rim flanges of a wheel rim. The tire cover includes a reinforcing structure for preventing the tire from collapsing when it is at least partially deflated, which reinforcing structure comprises a bias-ply carcass and a reinforcement layer. The reinforcement layer has both ends terminating adjacent and in spaced relation to the bead cores within the bead portions and is made of a plurality of juxtaposed textile cords. The reinforcing structure may have a pair of side reinforcing layers embedded in the tire cover adjacent the respective side walls.
Abstract:
A tire comprises a tread portion, sidewall portions, and beads, the tread portion having a tread pattern comprising a plurality of bars arranged herringbone fashion about the mid-circumferential plane of the tire, the tire being reinforced by a plurality of plies of cord fabric wherein at least one of said plies comprises cords of polyester fiber while a radially outermost cord fabric ply underlying the tread of the tire comprises a plurality of cords of polyamide fiber.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire with tread, beads and sidewalls in which each bead is provided with a rubber apex of rubber compound of hardness at least 60*BS extending into the lower sidewall region of the tire and a reinforced strip extending around the bead and into the lower sidewall region of the tire both axially inwardly and axially outwardly of the tire. Together the reinforced strip and the rubber apex form a cantilever lower sidewall construction, the ratio of the overall internal width of the tire to the distance between the axially outermost tire contacting points on the wheel rim being in the range 125 to 200 percent, of which the following is a specification.
Abstract:
A PNEUMATIC TIRE FORMED OF AN ELASTOMER AND ONE OR MORE FABRIC PLY REINFORCEMENTS, IN WHICH A FABRIC REINFORCEMENT EXTENDS CONTINUOUSLY AROUND THE ANNULAR CROSSSECTION OF THE TIRE AT AN ANGLE OF BETWEEN 70* AND 90* RELATIVE TO THE CROWN THEREOF. THE TIRE IS FASTENED TO AN ELASTIC OR RIGID MEMBER, WHICH MAY BE A WHEEL RIM COMPONENT, BY AN ADHESIVE BOND FORMED BY A SUITABLE ADHESIVE.
Abstract:
Radial tires are provided with plies made from a fabric with warp filaments running across the carcass of the tire at right angles to the direction of rotation, and weft filaments running circumferentially of the tire, the weft filaments being made from two or more different materials whose strength and stretch properties differ so that the warp filaments are able to spread uniformly during curving of the tire blank.
Abstract:
This disclosure is related to a novel tire construction comprising a conventional body construction of layers of conventional body plies with the cords of each ply at conventional angles and a belt of plies with the cords in the belt at an angle different from the cords in the body plies and the cords comprised of regular modulus, low twist rayon cords. The twist of the rayon cord is between 40 and 75 percent of the standard twist and preferably 50 percent of the standard twist.