Two piece tire with improved tire tread belt
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsWilliam Earl Rayman, Barry Allen Matrana, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Gregory Scott Hanna
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Abstract
A two-piece tire assembly has a removable tread belt 12 for installing about the circumference of a tire carcass 14. The tread belt has at least a pair of belt layers, and one layer comprising inextensible reinforcing cables inclined at substantially zero degrees relative to the circumferential direction of the tire assembly. The cables in zero degree ply have a tensile breaking load of at least 27500 N.
Claims8
A tread belt for installing about the circumference of a tire carcass after the tread belt and tire carcass have been separately assembled and cured, wherein
- the tread belt is comprised of at least a pair of belt layers, and one layer comprising inextensible reinforcing cables inclined at substantially zero degrees relative to the circumferential direction of the tire assembly,
- the inextensible reinforcing cables having a tensile breaking load of at least 27,500 N and have an end count of 3 to 4 ends per inch (1.18–1.57 ends/cm).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.