Bridgestone Corporation

Bridgestone Europe Nv/sa

Luca Spiri

Gianluca Forte

Renata Erica Morace

Massimo Mangia

Brenda Cecilia Barrios Perez

Valeria Riccio

The present invention relates to a tyre () comprising: —a carcass (); —at least one high elongation belt (), being applied as a single cord externally to said carcass (); and —an external tread portion (), provided with two or more grooves () extending according to a circumferential direction (L) around said tread portion (), wherein the axial width (Wg) of at least one of said grooves (), measured according to an axial direction (A) parallel to an axis of rotation (R) of said tyre () and orthogonal to said circumferential direction (L), is at most equal to 2 millimeters.

Tire

A curing station for curing a tread strip, having a flat curing mold; a gripper which grips a portion of the cured tread strip inside the curing mold; an actuating device which, at the end of the curing process, moves the gripper to gradually extract the cured tread strip from the curing mold; and a guide device which, as the cured tread strip is extracted, is positioned over the curing mold, and has a main roller, about which the extracted part of the cured tread strip winds, and a secondary roller smaller in diameter than, and positioned parallel to and alongside, the main roller.

Tread strip curing station

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Roma, Italy

Luca Spiri