US 3,939,893 AGranted

Tire cord fabric

AssigneeDeering Milliken Research Corporation

InventorCalvin P. Schmidt

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A woven chafer fabric for tires which uses a round monofilament warp yarn and a bulked multifilament fill yarn.

Dependent claims

In a tubeless tire having a ply turn-up portion, a bead area, a sidewall area, a shoulder area and a tread area the improvement comprising:

a chafer fabric connected to the outside of the ply turn-up area adapted to contact the inside of a tire rim, said chafer fabric being a woven fabric constructed of a round monofilament warp yarn and a bulked multifilament fill yarn.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

B60C 15/0072
Features of the carcass terminal portion: with ply reverse folding, i.e. carcass layer folded around the bead core from the outside to the inside
B60C 15/06
Tyre beads, e.g. ply turn-up or overlap: flipper strips, fillers, or chafing strips and reinforcing layers for the construction of the bead
Y10T 152/10828
Characterized by the structure of the bead portion of the tire: chafer or sealing strips
B60C
Vehicle tyres

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