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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1996
Jennifer Lyn Ryba, Wadsworth, OH (US);
Michael Brendan Rodgers, Akron, OH (US);
Stanley Michael Mezynski, Mogadore, OH (US);
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a truck or bus tire with a rubber tread of cap/base construction where the tread cap is composed of an emulsion polymerization prepared styrene/butadiene copolymer elastomer with a relatively random styrene content (E-SBR-A). Such E-SBR-A, in its uncured state, also has a relatively low Tg. In one aspect, the tire tread's tread cap may also be a blend of elastomers such as cis 1,4-polybutadiene and/or natural rubber together with said E-SBR-A and wherein the tread base elastomer is composed primarily of natural cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber. In another aspect of the invention, said tread cap has a tread design composed of at least three circumferential continuous ribs designed to be road contacting, said ribs independently separated by continuous, circumferential grooves.