Tire manufacturing mold

A tire manufacturing mold consisting essentially of:

• a block having a curved contour surface extending circumferentially around the block and corresponding to an outer circumferential surface of a tire to be molded;
• a plurality of bone portions and a plurality of blade portions extending inwardly of the contour surface and circumferentially around a contour surface in repeating pattern with at least some blade portions having edges connected between spaced bone portions;
• the blade portions protruding essentially normally to the contour surface;
• each of the blade and bone portions being made as one unitary body with the block and formed by discharge machining the block in relief in a plurality of repeating arc sections around the contour surface of the block;
• there being no vertical gaps between edges of any blade and any bone portion, there being no gaps between any blade and the contour surface and there being no gaps between any bone and the contour surface;
• the blade portions each having a thickness of less than 1.5 mm and a height of more than 2 mm at at least one portion in a height direction thereof away from the contour surface;
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• at least some of the bone portions and the blade portions extending at a predetermined angle to the contour surface so that they contact the contour surface at a line contact with substantially no curved transition area between the at least some bone and blade portions and the contour surface.