The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Gregory Lee Loney

Michael James Hogan

Todd Andrew Bachochin

Bernard Byron Jacobs

Brett Alan Kasper

James Stephen Horvath

Richard Allen Root

David Alton Balderson

David Chester Robek

A tire mold having improved heat transfer is disclosed. A plurality of wear plates are installed onto a conical inner surface of an actuating ring. The wear plates are designed to improve thermal transfer between the actuating ring and a segmented treadmolding ring, reducing tire cure time and temperature variation within the mold.

Tire mold having improved heat transfer characteristics

A segmented tire mold having radially movable circumferentially spaced sliding center segments activated by sliding connections between an upper mold half and the segments in response to opening and closing of the mold.

Segmented tire mold

A composite blade (,A through,F) for use in a tire cure mold and the method of fabricating the composite blade employs the steps of forming a blade blank (,) and encapsulating at least one end (,) in a second material by placing the end (,) in a die and molding an enlarged cross-section (,) of a second material around the end (,). Preferably the second material is a powdered metal.

Article and method for composite tire mold blades

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Cuyahoga Falls, OH, United States of America

Gregory Lee Loney