Tire with unequal bead diameters
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorGeorge T. Watts
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Abstract
A tire with conventional components having a pair of annular beads with different diameters, and contour lengths which are substantially equal. The contour lengths are referenced to the sidewalls of the tire and are measured along the neutral axis of the carcass plies between the beads and a plane containing the mid-circumferential centerline of the tread.
Claims5
A tire comprising at least one carcass ply, a tread and pair of sidewalls surrounding the carcass ply and terminating at a pair of annular beads of different diameters, and characterized in that the contour lengths (L) and (L.sub.1) of the sidewalls, measured along the neutral axis of the carcass plies between the center axes of the beads and centerplane of the tire, are equal.
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