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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2001
David John Zanzig, Uniontown, OH (US);
Brian David Holden, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a tire with a colored sidewall joined with a plurality of colored grooves in its tread. In particular, the present invention relates to a tire of a black-colored rubber composition having a non-black colored sidewall portion which is integral with a plurality of non-black colored grooves of a tread of lug and groove configuration. For said tread, at least a portion of the visible surface of a plurality of tread grooves, exclusive of the outer surface portion of said carbon black reinforced rubber lugs intended to be ground-contacting, is of a non-black colored, synthetic amorphous silica reinforced rubber composition exclusive of carbon black. For said colored sidewall and plurality of connecting tread groove combination, said tread groove and sidewall may be of the same or different non-black color(s). In one aspect, said non-black visible surface of said tread grooves and connecting sidewall contains an elastomeric brominated copolymer of isobutylene and p-methyl styrene in combination with an organo phosphite compound.