Compagnie Générale Des Etablissements Michelin-Michelin & Cie

Alain Clouet

Renaud Rivaton

A toric membrane of reinforced rubber, used as a support for the tread of a tubeless tire and forming with the tire P and its mounting rim a rolling assembly, characterized in that, when inflated to a pressure p greater than the pressure p of the cavity of the tire, it has in the inflated state a crown radius R less than the loaded radius R of the tire when used at its recommended pressure, the membrane being reinforced in its crown by a crown reinforcement and a hooping reinforcement composed of circumferentially oriented cords or cables, and in its sidewalls by at least one reinforcement ply, wound around an annular reinforcement element having a breaking load slightly greater than that of the hooping reinforcement.

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Sainte-Maurice, France

Alain Clouet