Two piece tire with improved tire tread belt
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsWilliam Earl Rayman, Barry Allen Matrana, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Gregory Scott Hanna
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Abstract
A two-piece tire assembly has a removable tread belt 12 for installing about the circumference of a tire carcass 14. The tread belt has at least a pair of belt layers, and one layer comprising inextensible reinforcing cables inclined at substantially zero degrees relative to the circumferential direction of the tire assembly. The cables in zero degree ply have a tensile strength of at least 50,000 N.
Claims20
A two-piece tire assembly having a removable tread belt for installing about the circumference of a tire carcass and a tire carcass having an inflated and unloaded outer circumferential surface having an axial dimension no greater than the axial width of the removable tread belt, wherein
- the tread belt is comprised of at least a pair of belt layers, and one layer comprising inextensible reinforcing cables inclined at substantially zero degrees relative to the circumferential direction of the tire assembly,
- the reinforcing cables having a tensile strength of at least 50,000 N.
A tread belt for installing about the circumference of a tire carcass after the tread belt and tire carcass have been separately assembled and cured, wherein
- the tread belt is comprised of at least a pair of belt layers, and one layer comprising inextensible reinforcing cables inclined at substantially zero degrees relative to the circumferential direction of the tire assembly,
- the reinforcing cables having a tensile strength of at least 50,000 N.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.