The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

George J Siefert

Michael Alois Kolowski

Terrence M Ruip

John E Lynch

Henry L Gresens

The elliptically-shaped tire has a pair of oppositely-opposed bead cores, a carcass structure each end of which is wrapped around a bead core, an apex disposed between the carcass structure and each of the ends thereof, a pair of oppositely-opposed sidewalls overlying the carcass structure, a chafer strip positioned between the carcass structure and each of the sidewalls, and a tread overlying the carcass structure and a belt reinforcing structure positioned therebetween. The carcass structure has a carcass aspect ratio of about 60. Additionally, the tire has a pair of oppositely-opposed sidewall portions having a relatively thin radially outer portion and a relatively thick radially inner portion.

Pneumatic tire

A chipperless radial ply tire having its carcass ply endings wrapped axially outwardly about the bead cores and terminating along a neutral stress line and with the air impervious liner extending axially outwardly about the bead cores and completely encasing the ply endings and further including a hard chafer strip extending at least from adjacent the radially outer extremity of the bead core to about 40 percent of the section height of the tire.

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North Canton, OH, United States of America

George J Siefert