Pneumatic tire
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorRobert D. Suydam
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Abstract
An aircraft tire having a plurality of bias carcass plies and a pair of bead portions, each including three inextensible bead cores. All of the carcass plies in each bead portion are wrapped about the two axially innermost bead cores while the axially outermost bead core is free of any radial stresses imparted by carcass plies.
Claims6
In an aircraft tire comprising a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of spaced-apart bead portions each having an axially outwardly facing flange engaging surface, a plurality of carcass plies extending circumferentially about the tire from bead portion to bead portion, and at least three inextensible bead cores disposed side-by-side in each bead portion and spaced-apart axially, the improvement comprising:
- at least one carcass ply wrapped around, and anchoring to said tire, each of the bead cores other than the axially outermost bead cores closest said flange engaging surfaces, the radially innermost carcass ply being wrapped around the bead cores of each bead portion and the carcass plies anchoring the bead cores other than the axially outermost bead cores, said innermost carcass ply extending from the axially outermost bead cores radially outwardly beyond the flange engaging surfaces and terminating short of the point of maximum axial width of said tire to hold the bead cores of each bead portion together and the axially outermost bead cores to said tire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.