Tire breaker strip application method and tire fabricated therefrom
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsAlbert James Yovichin, Andres Ignacio Delgado, Mary Beth Dombrosky, Mark Anthony Sieverding
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Abstract
A method for applying a breaker or other reinforcement layer to a carcass strip by strip includes the steps of calculating an end gap based upon a nominal strip width, the size of the carcass, and the end count desired; calculating a distributed gap required to distribute the calculated end gap substantially equally between each strip; and applying the breaker strip by strip with each strip being separated from an adjacent strip by the distributed gap spacing.
Claims11
A method for constructing a tire breaker reinforcement layer strip by strip comprising the steps:
- a. calculating a circumferential end gap resulting from an abutting side to side attachment of breaker strips about the circumference of a carcass, the calculation being based upon a nominal strip width, the circumferential size of the breaker layer on the carcass, and the end count desired, and wherein the end gap is less than a width of a breaker strip;
- b. calculating a distributed gap spacing required to distribute the calculated end gap substantially equally between each strip, wherein individual gaps between the strips aggregate to the calculated end gap;
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- c. constructing the breaker strip by strip with each strip being separated from an adjacent strip by the distributed gap spacing.
A method for constructing a tire breaker reinforcement layer strip by strip comprising the steps:
- a. calculating a circumferential end gap resulting from an abutting side to side attachment of breaker strips about the circumference of a carcass wherein the end gap is less than a width of a breaker strip, each breaker strip having at least one cord member and each breaker strip having a transverse width greater than the width of the one cord member, the calculation being based upon a nominal strip width, the circumferential size of the breaker layer on the carcass, and the end count desired;
- b. calculating a distributed gap spacing required to distribute the calculated end gap substantially equally between each strip wherein individual gaps between the strips aggregate to the calculated end gap;
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- c. constructing the breaker strip by strip with each strip being separated from an adjacent strip by the distributed gap spacing.
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