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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:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
William Earl Rayman, Hartville, OH (US);
Assignee:
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 1/102 ; B60C 1/100 ; B60C 9/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 1/102 ; B60C 1/100 ; B60C 9/18 ;
Abstract
A two-piece tire assembly has a removable tread belt for installing about the circumference of a tire carcass The tread belt has a pair of lateral ends each axially extending beyond the inflated unloaded carcass at the circumferential surface by a distance of at least 4% of the width as measured at the tread belt and carcass interface. The carcass has an abrasion resistant rubber layer at the tread belt interface. The tread belt also has the abrasion resistance tread compound at the carcass interface.