Resilient tires and wheels inventions 02/06

20060037683 - Tire tread wear indicator and molding device for forming a tread wear indicator: A tire has at least one tread wear indicator. Each wear indicator is a single mark that provides continuous information to the consumer, while changing its presentation based upon the amount of tread wear. The mold blade employed to form the ear indicator has a series of stacked portions, each...

20060037684 - Method of mounting tires to civil engineering vehicles and associated tire: when the route is of type V (ascending empty and descending under load with a braking torque), fitting to each driving axle tires such that for each transverse groove (31) in the edge portions (B) of the tread, the angle of inclination of the rubber face (310, 311) delimiting said...

20060037685 - Multi-piece aluminum wheel and associated method: A multi-piece safety wheel includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced, interlocking bosses and tabs on the inner rim portion and outer rim portion. In the event of improper disassembly of the wheel with an inflated tire mounted thereon, any failure of the wheel assembly fasteners will result in the outer...

20060032563 - Apparatus and method for attaching an annular transponder unit to tire: Apparatus and method in the use thereof attaches an annular transponder unit to an annular tire surface, the transponder unit being of a type having a sensor housing coupled to an annular antenna. The apparatus includes a rotary turntable for supportably rotating a tire having an annular tire surface in...

20060032564 - Fixing apparatus and method for attaching an annular transponder unit to tire: Apparatus and method in the use thereof attaches an annular transponder unit to an annular tire surface, the transponder unit being of a type having a sensor housing coupled to an annular antenna. The apparatus includes a rotary turntable for supportably rotating a tire having an annular tire surface in...

20060032565 - Pneumatic tire: In a pneumatic tire that has four grooves in the circumferential direction, since an optimal ground-contact pressure at edges of each rib is influenced by a relative ratio to a ground-contact pressure at the middle position of each rib, groove angles and a rib sectional shape are optimized so that...

20060032566 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with blocks, the blocks are axially divided by at least one circumferential groove and circumferentially divided by oblique grooves inclined with respect to the tire axial direction towards one direction, and each of the blocks is subdivided into at least two parallelogrammic...

20060032567 - Tread pattern having wave-shaped and straight grooves: A tread pattern of a tire is disclosed which has wave-shaped and straight grooves capable of maintaining desired lock rigidity and hydroplaning performance of the tire. In the tread pattern, which includes circumferential main grooves, transversal grooves formed between adjacent ones of the circumferential main grooves, and blocks formed between...

20060032568 - Tire with oxygen scavenging barrier: The present invention provides a tire comprising a polyester copolymer, the polyester copolymer comprising predominantly polyester segments and an oxygen scavenging amount of polyolefin oligomer segments....

20060032569 - Tire with raised indicia: The present invention provides a pneumatic tire comprising raised indicia on a sidewall of the tire, the raised indicia comprising a plurality of superposed layers of a curable elastomer composition....

20060032570 - Crown reinforcement for a radial tire: A tire P, comprising a radial carcass reinforcement surmounted radially by a crown reinforcement consisting of at least one working reinforcement formed of at least two plies of calendered inextensible metallic reinforcement elements, of rubber mix, which are parallel to each other within each ply and are crossed from one...

20060032571 - Crown reinforcement for a radial tire: t

20060027294 - Run flat tire support and filament formed reinforcement member therefor: The present invention provides a unitary run flat tire (RFT) reinforcement using filament material that is formed into a relatively rigid shape. The reinforcement is insertable into a mold for an RFT support and can maintain the needed structural rigidity for such insertion. Further, the invention provides an RFT support...

20060027296 - Pneumatic tire: A tread portion (4) of a tire includes a first vertical groove (10), a second vertical groove (12), a subvertical groove (14), a first lateral groove (16), a second lateral groove (18) and a third lateral groove (20) on a surface thereof. The tread portion (4) further includes a first...

20060027295 - Three-dimensional tread sipes and mold blade for forming three-dimensional tread sipes: Both a mold blade for forming sipes and the sipe so formed in a tire tread element have three-dimensional portions. In the formed sipe, the three-dimensional portion creates a constant interlocking of the opposing sipe faces. The blade and the sipe have two radially adjacent rows of projections, wherein the...

20060027297 - Dual purpose tire wrap: An emergency tire apparatus comprising support members (tread panels) evenly proportioned and distributed as a network over the surface area of a tire or wheel rim, said members acting in concert to provide a supplemental tread surface in the event of a flat tire or blowout, or in the instance...

20060027298 - Enhanced hollow foam tire structure: This invention discloses a hollow EVA foam tire structure capable of carrying heavy loads, particularly a hollow EVA form tire having an accommodating space between the inboard sides of the tire. The tire is comprised of a plurality of sections substantially arranged into an annular shape, and a wheel core...

20060027299 - Bicycle inner tube with interchangeable valves and methods for distribution thereof: A bicycle inner tube including an annular envelope defining an interior gas compartment and a connecting means operatively associated with the annular envelope. The connecting means is configured to selectively engage either of at least two different styles or sizes of inflation valve. The two most commonly available styles of...

20060027300 - Heavy duty tire: A heavy duty tire comprises a single carcass ply and a tread reinforcing belt. Each carcass ply turnup portion comprises a base part under a bead core and a radially outer part extending axially inwardly towards the carcass ply main portion. The belt consists of three plies of cords, wherein...

20060027301 - Tyre for vehicle wheel comprising a particular carcass structure: A tire for a vehicle wheel is provided which comprises a carcass structure, and a belt structure applied to the carcass structure at a circumferentially-outer position of the carcass structure. A tread band is also provided which is circumferentially superposed on the belt structure, and sidewalls are laterally applied to...

20060021687 - Pneumatic tire with electrically conductive cord extending from its outer wheel-rim mounting surface to its internal tread portion: This invention relates to a pneumatic rubber tire which contains at least one electrically conductive cord extending from an external outer surface of its wheel-rim mounting surface rubber component to an internal electrically conductive tread base layer rubber component to provide a path of least electrical resistance, namely an electrically...

20060021688 - Rubber composition and tire with component of diene-based elastomer composition with corncob granule dispersion: This invention relates to a rubber composition and tire having at least one component of a rubber composition comprised of at least one diene-based elastomer, to the exclusion of butyl type elastomers, which contains an internal dispersion of corncob granules. Such tire component may be, for example, a tire tread...

20060021689 - Non-return block for snow chains: A non return block (5) for locking a tensioning terminal portion (7) of snow chains (2), comprising a body (51) which defines a channel (12) in which the terminal portion (7) passes and a ratchet or a pawl (13) pivoted on the body (51) to lock the terminal portion (7)...

20060021690 - Integral pressure regulation system for tires and other vessels containing compressible fluids: An inflation and pressure regulation system for inflatable vessels, such as tires, has a main chamber containing a volume of compressible fluid, such as air, and a pump chamber which acts to maintain the fluid in the vessel at a desired pressure. The pump chamber has a rigid, fluid-tight wall...