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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7240710 | Cable bead and method of manufacture The present invention relates to a cable bead, the method of constructing the cable bead and a tire constructed by a process incorporating the cable bead wherein the cable bead is formed with a bead core wound from a single filament of bead core wire having a rubber... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7201199 | Tire with bead core with hexagonal section A tire for a vehicle wheel includes a carcass, a tread band radially external to the carcass, and a pair of axially distanced sidewalls. The carcass includes at least one carcass ply including ends associated with bead cores. Each bead core is incorporated in a resp... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7150302 | Tire bead core and pneumatic tire A tire bead core has an annular body formed by annularly winding and bundling one bead wire in the form of a quadrangle in cross section which has two pairs of opposing sides substantially parallel to each other. The annular body comprises a plurality of winding por... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7108233 | Wire ring net for rocky wall barriers and method for making it A wire ring net, particularly for providing barriers for rocky walls and the like comprises a plurality of braided wire rings, each wire ring comprising, at a starting end of its wire, a first curled portion wound about the wire of the first turn and, at the termina... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7063761 | Method of mounting a tire on a rim A method of mounting a tire on a rim includes selecting a tire comprising bead cores, stretching the bead cores, sliding the bead cores over a balcony portion of the rim, allowing the bead cores to elastically return to lengths corresponding to diameters of respecti... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7021351 | Bead core of pneumatic tire A bead core for pneumatic tires comprised of a ring-like bead core main body 11 in which a single bead wire 10 is wound in a multi-seriate and multi-staged manner and provided with angular portions P on an outer peripheral surface S in a meridian secti... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6991017 | Light weight cable bead core A light weight cable bead core 30 is described having an inner core 33 made of a metal wire 34 with an outer sheath 35 of steel cord wires 36. Each cord 36 is made of a plurality of filaments 37. The bead core 30 | 01/31/2006 |
| 6827115 | Bead construction A pneumatic tire (300) having a tread (312), and a carcass (316) with a ply (320), oppositely disposed sidewalls (318) extending radially-inwardly from opposite sides of tread (312) and including an inner radial-end bead por... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6820670 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire comprises a pair of bead portions each provided therein with a bead core made of windings of at least one wire, a carcass ply of cords extending between the bead portions and turned up around the bead core from the axially inside to the outside of t... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6786262 | Tire bead with locked end wire and its method of manufacture The present invention provides a method of making a tire bead core (40) by winding a length of wire into a coil with at least one radially outermost layer (30) having a side-by-side relationship where each successive winding of the wire is placed adjac... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6672353 | Tire bead core assembly and tire using the same A bead core for locking a tire to a seat of a wheel rim includes a plurality of annular reinforcement elements having an inner transverse dimension smaller than a maximum diameter of the wheel rim, and being sufficiently deformable at ambient temperature ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6622766 | Light weight cable bead core A light weight cable bead core 30 is described having an inner core 33 made of a metal wire 34 with an outer sheath 35 of steel cord wires 36. Each cord 36 is made of a plurality of filaments 37. The bead core 30 is particularly suited for heavy-duty serv... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6571847 | Light weight alloy bead core A light weight alloy bead core 30 is described having an inner core 33 made of an alloy of a light weight metal wire 34 with an outer sheath 35 of steel wires 36. The bead core 30 is particularly suited for heavy-duty service conditions in tires 100 for a... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6554933 | Bead core with a clamp, tire incorporating same, and method of making same A tire includes a carcass, a tread band, at least a reinforcing belt between the tread band and the carcass, a pair of bead cores disposed one at each end of the carcass with ends of the carcass wrapped around the pair of bead cores to form a pair of bead... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6470933 | Tire containing at least part of an electrical current generator intended for the supply of sensors and/or other electrical devices present within the tire, and method for manufacture the said tire A tire for a vehicle wheel includes a toroidal carcass, a tread band, and a first inductive element of an electrical generator. At least one tire bead includes an annular core including a steel strip spirally wound to form at least two radially-superposed... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6422280 | Heavy duty tire with specified bead design An improved heavy duty pneumatic tire designed to be mounted on an associated design rim having a flange portion is described. The rim flange has an axially inward surface contacting the axially outward portion of the bead area of the tire and an axially ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6413342 | Method of forming a bead with an anchored trailing end The method of forming a bead 10 having a trailing end 12 of at least one bead wire 14 being anchored in the bead 10. The method including the steps of (i) securing a leading end of the bead wire 14; (ii) winding the bead wire 14 about a former 42 a plural... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6345657 | Pneumatic radial tires for trucks and buses mounted on 15 degree drop center rim In a pneumatic radial tire for trucks and buses mounted on an approved 15° drop center rim, an outer surface portion of a composite side-rubber and/or an envelope surface of the bead core among members constituting the bead portion of the tire has a curv... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6302175 | Pneumatic tires with cable bead core A pneumatic tire comprises a bead core formed by laminating three or more sheath layers of spirally twisted sheath filaments around a thick core wire and making reverse the twisting direction of the sheath filament in these sheath layers every the sheath ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6244318 | Pneumatic tires whose bead core has a thick-diameter core wire and a plurality of layers of thin-diameter sheath wires A pneumatic tire has a bead core consisting of a single core and plural sheath layers formed by helically winding plural sheath wires around the core, in which an end count of sheath wires in an outermost sheath layer is made smaller than an end count at ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6105646 | Metal tire bead To form a metal bead for a tire, two integral portions of a single length of wire are wound in opposite directions about an axis to form a bundle; and the free ends of the two portions are positioned substantially coaxially and adjacent to each other alon... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5938042 | Thin support frame A screening arrangement support frame component in which a pair of complementary elongate component members have body portions and cavity defining formations. The component members are secured side by side to one another such that the body portions abut a... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5885388 | Pneumatic tire with swelled bead core inner surface A pneumatic tire comprises a bead core disposed in each of a pair of bead portions and a carcass ply turned up around the bead cores, wherein the bead cores are provided in the radially inner surface with a swell having a radius of curvature in the range ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5820717 | Metal tire bead manufacturing method To form a metal bead for a tire, two integral portions of a single length of wire are wound in opposite directions about an axis to form a bundle; and the free ends of the two portions are positioned substantially coaxially and adjacent to each other alon... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5711830 | Pneumatic vehicle tire with specified bead core cross-section A pneumatic vehicle tire with an annular bead core consisting of multiple layers of wound wire has a bead core with a cross-section that, based on a hexagonal cross-sectional area defined by a radially outer and a radially inner side, a radially outer and... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5700336 | Bead core for a pneumatic tire A bead core for a pneumatic tire is built up from a ring element and a load carrying element wound into the ring element, wherein the load carrying winding is subdivided by a support wall of the ring element into two regions. The boundary walls at the edg... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5632836 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing a tire bead core assembly An apparatus for manufacturing an assembly of an annular bead wire core and a surrounding ring of filler material attached thereto comprising at least one former, typically mounted on a turntable, and a number of stations. At a first station, rubber-coate... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5626695 | Pneumatic radial tires with monostrand bead core for small-size passenger cars A pneumatic radial tire for a small-size passenger car having substantially the same structure as in the conventional tire includes a pair of bead portions each with a monostrand bead core of a particular cross-sectional shape made by spiral winding of a ... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5603799 | Insert for use with a tire bead forming apparatus An insert is located in the forming groove of the tire bead former so that the first convolutions of the wire, which form the tire bead, are wound on the insert as the tire bead former is rotated, the insert having an upstanding side portion which defines... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5529106 | Pneumatic tires with closed packed mono strand bead core structure A pneumatic tire for small passenger vehicles having a pair of bead portions located at the internal periphery of a pair of sidewalls connected to a tread at both its edges, wherein the bead core of the bead portion is a mono strand bead core and the cros... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5385621 | Tire bead-making method with two winding tension levels A plurality of helically wound tire beads are made by winding them on a forming wheel at two predetermined tension levels. The tension levels are generated by a braking pulley and magnetic particle brake in conjunction with a programmable logic controller... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5368082 | Radial ply pneumatic tire A radial ply pneumatic tire is described. The tire has a carcass with a bead portion, a carcass reinforcing structure, and a bead filler. The carcass reinforcing structure has two plies with turnup ends wrapped about each bead. The turnup end of the first... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5339879 | Pneumatic tire having opposite spiral oriented beads A pneumatic tire having a tread, a pair of sidewalls each terminating in an annular bead area, and a pair of beads located within the bead areas, for mounting the tire on a rim. Each of the beads is formed by at least one strand of metallic wire wound upo... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5307853 | Tire bead A tire bead including steel wire cords and aromatic polyamide wire cords, the steel wire cords being placed inside a cross section of the tire bead and the aromatic polyamide wire cords being placed on the outside of the bead cross section.... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5263526 | Pneumatic tire having specified bead structure A radial ply pneumatic tire features a bead core which comprises an arrangement of filaments positioned relative to one another. The bead core has a cross-section and a radially inward base side, a radially outermost point or side or sides, an axially inw... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5226460 | Method of producing a bead core for pneumatic tires A bead core for pneumatic vehicle tires, a method of producing same, and a winding reel for carrying out such a method are provided. The bead core comprises a plurality of spirally wound layers, each of which comprises load-carriers that are disposed next... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5215613 | Method for making knotless bead bundle A method for making a knotless bead bundle, a bead bundle made according to the method, and a tire made using the knotless bead bundle are provided. In the method a bead ring is made using a plurality of annular turns of wire as is conventional in the art... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5205883 | Pneumatic tire with polygonal bead core A pneumatic radial tire having a circular bead core of substantially polygonal cross section which includes a base (a) adjacent an inclined bead base portion of the tire, an inner side (b) on a side of the bead core nearest a bead toe portion of the tire,... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5201972 | Pneumatic vehicle tire having beads that are turnable A pneumatic vehicle tire having a carcass that is looped about two bead cores that comprise load-carrying members such as plastic filaments and/or metal wires, with beads in which the bead cores are disposed being capable of turning from a vulcanizing pos... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5176767 | Bead wire for tire, rubber-coated bead wire for tire and tire using the same The present invention is directed to bead wires which has a Cu/Sn deposit having an Sn content of 9 to 13% by weight and a Cu content of 91 to 87% by weight, in an amount of 0.65 to 0.85 g per kilogram of the wire. The present invention is also directed t... | 01/05/1993 |
