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Amerityre Corporation

Ford Motor Company Limited

Gary N Benninger

Richard A Steinke

James G Moore

Randall P Petresh

Raymond E Peck

A tent constructed such that it incorporates a light-weight, single walled, low emissivity fabric or film canopy. In the case of the polymer film canopy, the canopy may be assembled from flat or molded film segments/sections. The light-weight canopy materials may incorporate a grid of reinforcing fibers, wherein the reinforcing fibers are laminated into/onto the film during manufacture of the film/fabric. The light-weight canopy materials, either with or without a grid of laminated reinforcing fibers, may also incorporate additional continuous reinforcing fibers added to the canopy materials during the tent manufacturing process by bonding along the lines of principal stress/load. The possibility of including the continuous fibers along the principal lines of stress/load during the laminating process is also addressed.

Tent

A sleeping bag constructed such that its outer circumference is greater than its inner circumference includes additional integrated protuberances, or space fillers, that are added to the interior lining of the sleeping bag to fill-in around the sleeper's body. Making the circumference of the outside of the bag greater than the inside maintains the thickness of the insulation in selected areas. To maintain insulation thickness at other locations around the sleeper's body, the insulation-containing space fillers are incorporated into the interior of the bag and expand under the influence of the insulation to fill-in around the sleeper for reducing the internal volume of the bag. This construction can be carried the length of the sleeping bag.

Sleeping bag

An insulated sleeping bag insert constructed such that when used with a sleeping bag provides additional insulation thickness above and to the sides of the user, thereby extending the lower limit of the usable temperature range of the sleeping bag. The insert is fitted with attachment mechanisms that allow it to be attached and retained in position within the interior of the sleeping bag. The insulated sleeping bag insert construction is unique in that, in addition to a layer of uniform insulation over the sleeper's body, additional insulation-containing space fillers are incorporated into the sides of the insert to fill-in around the sleeper for reducing the internal volume of the bag.

Sleeping bag temperature range extender insert

A sleeping bag assembly having a sleeping bag and non-integral hood is constructed so as to allow the user to be able to sleep on either side, back or stomach without rotating the sleeping bag while all the time keeping a face opening of the hood in position relative to the user's face.

Sleeping bag and hood assembly

A process and method for retreading a heavy duty tire with a polyurethane tread where, after a tire carcass is inspected, cleaned and the worn tire tread is removed, the tire carcass receives a tube fitted therein and is installed in a mold cavity, between top and bottom mold rings. The mold rings each include spaced segments that inter-digitate and will form equal spaced tread voids in a finished recapped tire. The bottom mold ring inner edge top includes a continuous sealing lug, and the top ring is open to pass a flow of polyurethane materials, that is received off of a lower edge of a cone shaped spreader positioned onto the tire carcass top side wall and slides, as a sheet, into the mold, filling the mold cavity from bottom to top, forcing air from the mold ahead of the fill and forming the recapped tire tread.

Method for retreading a heavy duty tire with a polyurethane tread

An apparatus for retreading a heavy duty tire with a polyurethane tread where a tire carcass that is suitable for retreading receives a tube fitted therein and is installed on its side in a mold cavity, between top and bottom rings, that each include spaced segments extending from opposing top and bottom ring surface that inter-digitate to form the equal spaced tread voids in a finished recapped tire, with bottom ring inner edge including a continuous sealing lug, and the top ring is open to pass a flow of polyurethane materials from a lower edge of a cone shaped spreader that is positioned onto the tire carcass top side wall and directs a flow of polyurethane materials from the cone surface into the mold, filling the mold cavity from bottom to top to form a recapped tire tread.

Apparatus for forming a heavy duty tire with a polyurethane tread

An apparatus and method for filling a tire and wheel assembly cavity, that can be a large tire and wheel, with a flexible closed cell polyurethane foam that is passed as a mixture of reacting constituents through a fill hose whose end is fitted between the tire bead and wheel rim, and after filling and removal of the fill hose end, providing for lifting and maintaining the tire bead in engagement with the wheel rim as the reacting materials complete their reaction, uniformly filling the tire and wheel cavity with the flexible closed cell polyurethane foam that has expanded and urges the tire bead into sealing engagement with the wheel rim.

Method and apparatus for filling a tire and wheel assembly with a closed cell polyurethane foam

A disc brake includes a torque member rigidly mounted to an axle of a vehicle wheel. The torque member has arms protruding radially outward beyond the edge of the rotor. A caliper is mounted to the outer periphery of the torque member arms by pins extending through apertures within the caliper and the arms. The pins have a radially enlarged portion which slideably mount an outboard brake shoe. An inboard brake shoe is fitted between the two torque member arms and abuts the side edges of the arms. The caliper houses a piston which when actuated moves the inboard brake shoe into engagement with the rotor such that the caliper reaction portion urges the outboard brake shoe to press against the outboard side of the rotor. Torque stress from the brake shoes is transferred to the torque arms bypassing the caliper.

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West Bloomfield, MI, United States of America

Gary N Benninger