The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Veyance Technologies, Inc.

Contitech Usa, Inc.

Thomas Brian Feldmann

Wesley K Olson

The tracks of the present invention have drive faces which are tapered surfaces, such as a convex tapered surface which extends laterally over the drive surface of the lugs. The utilization of lugs having tapered drive faces improves the performance and durability of the track. The tracks having the drive face design of this invention also allow for more power to be delivered without damaging the track or causing excessive wear.

Vehicle track

Track design

A method of curing large endless track rubber belts uses a multi-platen mold assembly with a pair of fully supporting indexing wheels, non-preformed lug preparation and a post-forming cavity pressure reduction to provide cured tracks with non-deformed reinforcing members while avoiding the extrusion of rubber compound out of the ends of the molds. Also provided is an apparatus for curing large endless track belts having fully supported indexing wheels.

Method to cure endless track belts and apparatus therefor

A carcass for an elastomeric drive belt having at least one layer of wire reinforcement made up of two cables spirally wound on each side of a mid-circumferential plane, one in the S direction and the other in the Z direction.

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Hamilton, OH, United States of America

Thomas Brian Feldmann