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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1982
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ioan A Burche, Muscatine, IA (US);
Edwin T Brodie, Muscatine, IA (US);
Assignee:
Bandag Incorporated, Muscatine, IA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C / ; B60C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1522 / ;
Abstract
Tire treads are designed to be receptive to the technique of cutting parallel slits therein for the purpose of improving traction and wear life. In order to obtain the advantages of slitting while avoiding cracking and breaking off of tread elements during use, the slit angle, general guides for the tire size and type and slit depth should be chosen within prescribed limits, and additional voids such as shoulder grooves, cross grooves and cross molded voids should be parallel to the slits. Tie bars integral at their ends with tread elements extend across the tread grooves to provide lateral support for the tread elements.