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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7416002 | Reinforced pneumatic tire including composite fabric ply in at least tire shoulders A pneumatic tire has a pair of shoulder portions extending between a tread portion and opposed sidewall portions. The tire has at least one ply of a composite fabric. The composite fabric has three layers with the middle layer comprising a plurality of straight warp... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7275576 | Method of making reinforcement elements for a vehicle tyre, and a tyre for a vehicle wheel A method of making reinforcing elements for a vehicle tire includes laying down at least one continuous thread element on a support element of the tire according to a deposition path substantially concentric with a rotation axis of the tire. A tire for a vehicle whe... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7094303 | Method and apparatus for forming a core of plies, belts and beads and for positioning the core in a mold for forming an elastomeric tire A method and apparatus for forming a core of plies, belts and beads and for positioning the core in a mold for forming an elastomeric tire. The core is built up on a mandrel of the inner mold that is formed from hard foam core segments positioned between top and bot... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7025104 | Tire-use rubber-covered fabric, production method therefor, production method for pneumatic tire using rubber-covered fabric, and pneumatic tire A rubber-coated fabric 10 for a tire, obtained by rubber-coating a rattan blind woven stuff 14 in which wefts 11 and warps 12 made of tire cords 13 are woven into a rattan blind form. The wefts 11 have a break elongation of ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6568446 | Pneumatic bicycle tire having protection against wear and reduced rolling resistance The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire for a bicycle, especially a mountain bike, the tire having on each respective left and right side a bead each comprising a bead core. A carcass, preferably a diagonal carcass, which has at least one ply of... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6354349 | Seamless reinforcement for rubber composition and products incorporating such material Rubber composites, for example pneumatic tipes, can be made using seamless, tubular reinforcement (14). By pulling socks of seamless tubular reinforcement over, for example, a tire building drum (10), spliceless carcass reinforcement (18) and spliceless b... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6105647 | Radial tire with an obliquely lap-welded carcass ply A radial tire having at least one side wall and a carcass reinforcement consisting of at least one ply (20) reinforced by parallel threads (24) in substantially radial direction, termed radial threads, and having at least one lap weld (21) formed by super... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5858138 | Carcass reinforcement, made of a single filament, for a tire A radial tire having two carcass half-reinforcements anchored on each side f the tire in a bead, the base of which is intended to be mounted on a bead seat of a wheel rim, each bead having at least one bead wire, the carcass half-reinforcements being joine... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5702549 | Tire including tire fabric and ply including tire fabric Tire fabrics for reinforcing rubber which includes warps having straight portions arranged in parallel with each other at predetermined intervals and wefts woven with the warps. Each weft comprises a pair of parallel portions and a V-shaped connecting por... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5462104 | Toroidal carcass for road vehicle tires A toroidal carcass (1) for road vehicle tires, of the type presenting two annular beads (2, 3) connected by a toroidal reticulated structure (5) defined by tow numbers of loops (6, 7) extending in offset radial planes of the carcass (1) and from the respe... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5394920 | Method of producing a toroidal road vehicle tire carcass, and carcass produced thereby A toroidal road vehicle tire carcass comprises two annular beads connected by a substantially tubular toroidal reticulated structure defined by a number of elongated reinforcing elements extending between and substantially radially in relation to the bead... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5383992 | Method and device for producing a toroidal road vehicle tire carcass A method and device for producing a toroidal road vehicle tire carcass, the carcass presenting an annular frame rotated about its axis in relation to a knotting device located outside the frame and employing two continuous cords for producing, on the fram... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5346731 | Fiber-reinforced rubber A fiber-reinforced rubber article has a rubber body portion with a fiber reinforcement embedded therein. The fiber reinforcement includes a plurality of tubular braided cords braided by yarns. Each of the tubular braided cords is braided by more than thre... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5344514 | Method of producing a toroidal road vehicle tire carcass A toroidal road vehicle tire carcass (1) having two annular beads (2) connected by a toroidal reticulated structure (4) defined by a number of elongated reinforcing elements located between and extending substantially radially in relation to the beads (2)... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5342678 | Method of tyre cord sheet construction A method of woven webs comprising tire cord splicing headers or tabbies can be stabilized against lateral (weft) distortion without the need for temples, by incorporating reinforcing weft strands of a stiff resilient yarn, i.e. a composite yarn comprising... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5244717 | Tire fabric with polyester/high wet modulus rayon filling Tire fabric woven from filling yarn which consists essentially of from 40% to 80% by weight of polyester and from 60% to 20% by weight of high wet modulus rayon and has a cotton count ranging from 10/1 to 40/1 and warp cords consisting of a material selec... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5221382 | Pneumatic tire including gas absorbing cords Pneumatic tires are rendered less susceptible to blow or blister defects by providing, in at least one cord reinforcement ply of a tire, a plurality of gas absorbing cords with the reinforcement cords and gas absorbing cords lying in the same general plan... | 06/22/1993 |
| 4887656 | Woven fabric with bias weft and tire reinforced by same A bias weave fabric wherein the weft elements (2) have a tensile modulus of at least 30,000 N/mm2 and the angle between warp (3, 4) and weft (9) is between 10° and 85° whereas the packing factor (b/c) is between 30% and 90%. A process... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4857244 | Process of making a composite product, especially a vehicle tire The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a composite material wherein the element used to reinforce the composite material is subjected to an electrostatic field induced by a high voltage electric current, said element being then ... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4830781 | Tire body reinforcing component and apparatus and method for producing same A tire body reinforcing component is provided for underlying the tread and at least the sidewall regions of a pneumatic tire. The component comprises at least one continuous cord disposed across the width of said component from one edge to the other there... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4768575 | Pneumatic tubeless tire and method of splicing together the ends of a carcass fabric thereof A pneumatic tubeless tire is produced in such a way that the tire cord fabric (also known as the tire carcass fabric or ply fabric) has the ends thereof secured during tire building so that separation of the cord fabric ends, and a resulting blemish, does... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4744401 | Pneumatic tire reinforced with fabric A pneumatic tire containing a ply having a knitting fabric which is formed by arranging warps parallel to each other, setting wefts on the warps to cross the warps at an angle of 60° to 90° without weaving, and twining fine knitting yarns around the war... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4731137 | Tire made of castable or sprayable elastomers A method of building a tire in a mold having a mold core and a cavity between the mold core and the inner walls of the mold, the cavity defining tread, sidewa1l, and bead areas of the tire. A flexible mesh fabric is tied to the mold core by tying together... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4649979 | Bicycle tire In an open-sided bicycle tire having a plurality of carcass plies enclosing a pair of beads, and extending over the sidewalls and tread of the tire, at least one ply of a breaker is disposed between the plies of the carcass lying immediately under the tre... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4600045 | Pneumatic vehicle tire A pneumatic vehicle tire having a carcass and belt made of shot-in cord fabric. In order to achieve a uniform thread density of the warp threads over the width of the layers required for forming the cord fabric, the present invention provides woof threads... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4585044 | Tubular tire for cycles A tubular tire for cycles comprising a tubular toroidal body including an inner airtight tube to be inflated, the tire body or carcass being equipped, on the outer surface mating the wheel rim, with a rubberized tape having projecting portions such as pro... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4579769 | Tire cord fabric A tire cord fabric is disclosed, comprising a plurality of parallel warp threads and a plurality of weft threads interwoven with said warp threads. The weft threads have before dipping of the fabric a length which is longer than the width of the tire cord... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4523619 | Protective ply for tire crown of three-dimensional structure A tire with a crown comprising a strengthening reinforcement and at least one protective ply arranged above the strengthening reinforcement is characterized by the fact that the protective ply has the following features: it comprises a three-dimensional f... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4506717 | Woven wire fabric and a tire having a tread reinforcing ply made thereof A woven fabric is generally comprised of metallic warp cords and non-metallic weft cords. The weft cords are comprised of a plurality of glass filaments encapsulated in a resorcinol-formaldehyde-latex adhesive.... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4465709 | Method of processing tire cord fabric Tire cord fabric is processed by supporting a section of fabric and adjusting the warp cords to hang so that they are evenly distributed in a longitudinal direction. The fabric is then clamped in place and a dilute reactive polyurethane solution is spraye... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4435236 | Method of manufacturing a foldable bicycle tire having flexible beads An improved bicycle tire which can be folded for storage and transportation while maintaining the same running properties as a conventional tire. A plurality of bead cores made of a cord tensile member embedded in the bead section of the tire are provided... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4418736 | Vehicle tire A high performance bicycle tire comprising a casing of untreated woven fabric in the form of a toroid about an inner tube, wherein the threads of the fabric are in bias alignment. A polyurethane tread is preferably secured about the periphery of the casin... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4416935 | Bulked extensible weft yarn suitable for use as tire cords A bulked extensible yarn of entangled convoluted undrawn synthetic continuous nylon filaments having a plurality of crunodal filament loops randomly spaced along its surface and a greige break elongation of at least 150% performs effectively as an extensi... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4389839 | Reinforcing cord for elastomeric articles, shaped articles of reinforced elastomeric material, more particularly pneumatic tires for vehicles, and a process for the manufacture of reinforcing cord and a process for the manufacture of vehicle tires The invention particularly relates to a reinforcing cord for elastomeric objects, which cord is built up of two or more groups of endless filament bundles which are twisted or laid together. Each group contains at least one bundle of PPDT filaments and at... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4360050 | Low pressure low speed tire A low pressure tire, which is effectively used with a relatively small load in all terrain vehicles suited to be driven on various uneven grounds such as bad roads, tillage and sandy soil, comprising crown and side portions which consist of a carcass ply ... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4357385 | Filamentary yarn useful for the weft component of a tire cord fabric and a tire cord fabric including such a yarn A thermally improved polyester weft yarn is provided by melt-spinning a blend of a polyethylene terephthalate polymer and a small amount of polymer having a glass transition temperature of at least 10° C. higher than that of the polyethylene terephthalat... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4305433 | Steel cord fabric having sinusoidal warp chords and straight weft chords for reinforcing elastomeric articles and articles reinforced therewith A fabric for reinforcing elastomeric or other plastic materials comprising a steel cord warp and a steel weft wherein the warp cords are substantially sinusoidal and have an elongation of about 1-2% at 10% of the breaking load of the fabric and the weft e... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4295513 | Tire and method of reinforcement A tire having a reinforcing sheet of tubular knit material stretchable during shaping into a toroidal form. The knit material provides openings for striking through of the liquid reaction mixture of elastomer forming material used in molding the tire. The... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4287930 | Tire and method of reinforcement A cast or injection molded tire having a reinforcing sheet of netting material providing openings for striking through of elastomeric material during filling of the mold. The process of making the tire includes shaping the sheet of netting material by str... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4266593 | Slip-prevention device for vehicle tires A slip prevention mat for vehicle tires which comprises a net-like structure having a rhombic lattice, said net-like structure being made of a rope provided with a cover layer, said cover layer being made of a natural or synthetic resinous material, first... | 05/12/1981 |
