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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2009
Applicant:
Gary Robert Burg, Massillon, OH (US);
Inventor:
Gary Robert Burg, Massillon, OH (US);
Assignee:
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc., Akron, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 35/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method may include the steps of: (a) providing a tire mold; (b) providing an extruder operatively connected to a head with a die assembly; (c) inserting at least a first compound into the first extruder; (d) forming an extrudate from the die assembly; (e) applying the extrudate directly from the die assembly into the tire mold to form a tire tread component; and, (f) controlling movement of the tire mold to correspond to the extrudate delivery.