The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Daniel Abe Alford

Jonathan James Shondel

Shannon Joseph Hughes

Charles Joseph Ashton

Eric Matthew Luecke

Jeremy Edward Whisner

Jay Joseph Robinson

Matthew John Neidert

Paul Bryan Maxwell

Joseph Thomas Janesh

Eric John Marazzi

Brian David Digman

Kelly Sue King

Karl Eric Sundkvist

Delwyn Lovell Harvey

Richard Mark Wieland

Kevin Lee Burnworth

Daniel Christian Shavers

Leyla Kristen Renner

Jennifer Leigh Gabor

David Michael Howard

A tread is configured to have three rows of tread elements, a center row and a pair of shoulder rows, the center row forming a circumferential rib positioned at an equatorial centerplane of the tread. Each shoulder row has a repeating circumferential array of upwardly extending elongate groove fingers, adjacent groove fingers within the repeating array of each shoulder row of groove fingers being connected by at least one laterally extending channel. An array of serrations line each longitudinal side of the channels, each serration defined by inward tapering serration sidewalls extending to a serration base surface. Each channel is submerged below an outward tread surface such that the submerged channel will emerge as the tread wears down.

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Cuyahoga Falls, OH, United States of America

Daniel Abe Alford