Chipperless radial ply tire
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsMichael A. Kolowski, George J. Siefert
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Abstract
A chipperless radial ply tire having its carcass ply endings wrapped axially outwardly about the bead cores and terminating along a neutral stress line and with the air impervious liner extending axially outwardly about the bead cores and completely encasing the ply endings and further including a hard chafer strip extending at least from adjacent the radially outer extremity of the bead core to about 40 percent of the section height of the tire.
Claims9
A pneumatic tire having a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions and a carcass structure extending circumferentially about the tire and from bead portion to bead portion, said tire being characterized by the carcass plies being turned axially outwardly about and radially outwardly of each bead core to a point between one and three times the thickness of the bead core radially outwardly of the bead core with the centerline of at least the radially outer two-tenths of an inch of the turned-up portion of the carcass structure being no further removed from the neutral stress line than one and one-half times the thickness of the carcass structure, an air impervious inner liner extending about the bead core and completely encasing the carcass plies and an annular hard rubber chafer strip disposed axially outwardly of the turned-up portion of the carcass ply and extending from a point axially adjacent the radially outer extremity of the bead core to a point radially outwardly of the terminus of the air impervious inner liner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.