Uniroyal Inc.

The Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company

Pierre J Augier

A pneumatic tire and a mounting system therefor, having constructional features designed to provide optimized operational characteristics. The tire has a low aspect ratio .lambda. and a low height ratio .theta. conforming substantially to the relations .lambda.=0.236/.theta. and 0.32&lt;.theta.&lt;0.39. The mounting system includes a vehicle axleborne drum and a pair of ring members adapted to be securely fastened to the drum, each ring member defining a bead seat, a bead restraining flange and a sidewall-supporting extension, and the ring members being adhered to the tire at the beads and the lower sidewalls. A layer of a suitable sealant at the juncture between each ring member and the drum renders the joints airtight. The tire includes a single ply radial carcass the turn-ups of which terminate in the lower sidewall regions of the respective adhesion zones between the tire and the ring members, and each of the beads is reinforced by a relatively thin, lightweight metal member in the form of a single loop having no free ends. A novel valving system for the tire, including a passageway in one of the ring members covered at one end by a quantity of a sealant having self-sealing properties, is also provided. This abstract is not to be taken either as a complete exposition or as a limitation of the present invention, however, the full nature and extent of the invention being discernible only by reference to and from the entire disclosure.

Automotive vehicle tire and mounting system therefor

An article (e.g., a tire, a package, a label) having upon a surface thereof one or more identifying words composed of a plurality of letters chosen from an alphabet of distinctive letters. The letters, when uninverted, are readily distinguishable from one another upon comparison of the characteristic features of one letter with those of the remaining letters in the alphabet. In the particular embodiment illustrated, twenty-four of the twenty-six letters in the alphabet are invertible and form, when inverted, either the same letters or other letters of the alphabet. This allows uninverted words or groups of words to be selectively composed from the letters, which words, when inverted, form either the same words as or different words from the uninverted words.

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Grosse Pointe Park, MI, United States of America

Pierre J Augier