The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Jay Gordon Bryson

Neil Arthur Maly

Lawson G Wideman

This invention is based upon the unexpected discovery that uintahite can be incorporated into tire component rubber to improve the physical properties thereof. For example, by incorporating uintahite into tire tread rubber compositions, tires with improved tear and puncture resistance can be manufactured. Since uintahite is a relatively low cost material, its incorporation into tires also reduces cost. For instance, uintahite can be incorporated into a wide variety of tire rubber compounds used in the tread (including the base and the cap), sidewall, apex, chafer, bead coat, toeguard, innerliner, ply coat, gum strips, coverstrip, overlay and wedge stocks. This invention more specifically discloses a pneumatic tire which is comprised of a generally toroidal-shaped carcass, an outer circumferential tread which is adapted to be ground contacting, two spaced beads and two sidewalls extending radially from said spaced beads and connecting said tread to said spaced beads, wherein said tread is comprised of at least one rubbery polymer and from about 1 phr to about 20 phr of uintahite.

Tire tread rubber containing uintahite

Natural and synthetic rubber can be reclaimed by the use of a reclaiming oil having a molecular weight between 200 and 1000 and comprised of a mixture of substituted benzene compounds, such as alkyl benzenes and alkylated indanes, which mixture has an initial boiling point greater than or equal to 240.degree. C. These may be the only reclaiming oils charged to the digester, or they may be used to replace any volatile reclaiming oils used in the older processes. The resulting reclaimed rubber gives no greater contact or migratory stain then reclaimed rubber made with known non-staining oils, and much less oil is lost during the venting or blow-down of the digester.

Reclaim oil for digester process for rubber reclaiming

There is disclosed a process for the preparation of cyclopentene which comprises selectively hydrogenating cyclopentadiene in the liquid phase by contacting cyclopentadiene with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst comprising a highly dispersed form of nickel in which a polyol selected from the group consisting of 1,2-ethanediol, 1,2-propanediol, 1,3-propanediol, 1,2,3-propanetriol, 1,2-butanediol, 1,4-butanediol, 1,3-butanediol, 1,2,4-butanetriol and 1,2,3-butanetriol is employed in the reaction mixture.

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Tallmadge, OH, United States of America

Jay Gordon Bryson