Anthony V Scarpitti

D455997, Apr 23, 2002

Sep 29, 2000

29/130299

Anthony John Fierro - Uniontown OH
Anthony John Scarpitti - Uniontown OH
David Charles Wagner - Wadsworth OH
Karl Eric Sundkvist - Akron OH
Jeffrey Leon Sevart - Akron OH

The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company - Akron OH

1215

D12527, D12600

6408908, Jun 25, 2002

Jan 24, 2000

09/463842

Anthony John Scarpitti - Uniontown OH
Michael Alois Kolowski - Mogadore OH
Frederick William Miller - Akron OH
Donald Woodrow Gilliam - Uniontown OH
Keith Carl Trares - Akron OH

The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company - Akron OH

B60C 300

15220914, 152454, 152904

A pneumatic radial tire combination for four-wheeled automobile or light truck vehicles. The tire combination has a pair of front steer position tires and a pair of rear position tires. The front steer position tire has a first tread arc when the tire is normally inflated for normal load but unloaded, of decreasing radii extending toward the lateral edges and a straight line drawn between the intersection of the tread arc curvature and the centerplane is inclined at an angle of greater than 5Â relative to a tangent line L, L being tangent to the tread arc at the centerplane and parallel to the axis of rotation R. The rear tire 20 when similarly measured has a tread arc having an angle of less than 5Â.

6443199, Sep 3, 2002

Jan 24, 2000

09/463834

Anthony John Scarpitti - Uniontown OH
Michael Alois Kolowski - Mogadore OH
Frederick William Miller - Akron OH
Donald Woodrow Gilliam - Uniontown OH
Keith Carl Trares - Akron OH

The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company - Akron OH

B60C 1100

1522091, 15220926, 152904

A pneumatic radial tire combination for four-wheeled automobile or light truck vehicles. The tire combination has a pair of front steer position tires and a pair of rear position tires. The front steer position tire has a footprint when the tire is normally inflated for normal load that has a footprint shape factor of greater than 1. 00 at a 50% load, and about 1. 00 at both 85% load and 100% load, the footprint shape factor being defined as the maximum circumferential extent of the tires footprint at the centerplane of the tires footprint width divided by the average of the circumferential extent of the tires footprint width as measured at 40% of the footprint from both sides of the central plane of the footprint. The rear position tire footprint, when the tire is normally inflated for normal load, has a footprint shape factor of about 1. 00 at 50% load, and 1.

6660212, Dec 9, 2003

Nov 17, 2000

09/715277

David John Balter - Cuyahoga Falls OH
Michael Alois Kolowski - Mogodore OH
Anthony J. Scarpitti - Uniontown OH

The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company - Akron OH

B29D 3006

264501, 264236, 264237, 425 581

Method and apparatus for constrained post cure inflation (CPCI), for improvement of tire uniformity, footprint shape factor, and tread wear. The method comprises the steps of: (1) initiating the method on a tire after the tire has been removed from a tire curing mold (preferably while the tire is still hot); (2) providing 360 degree circumferential tread restraint which holds the tread in an ideal tread shape, concentric to the axis of rotation and nominally perpendicular to the equatorial plane; (3) sealingly holding the beads concentric to, and equidistant from, the axis of rotation, and symmetrically spaced about the equatorial plane; and (4) inflating the tire to a controlled pressure, and holding the controlled pressure for a controlled time while the tread is restrained and the beads are sealingly held. Optional additional steps include: before the inflating step, heating the tire, preferably to a controlled temperature above a glass transition temperature of the tires ply cord material; and before the end of the controlled time, cooling the tire below the glass transition temperature. An apparatus (CPCI device) is disclosed which is suitable for implementing the inventive method.

6908587, Jun 21, 2005

Nov 17, 2000

09/715384

David John Balter - Cuyahoga Falls OH, US
Michael Alois Kolowski - Mogodore OH, US
Anthony J. Scarpitti - Uniontown OH, US

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. - Akron OH

B29C071/02

264501, 264 401, 264235, 264346, 425135, 425446

Method and apparatus for post-cure correction (PCC), either partial or substantial, of various tire nonuniformities which have been detected during a tire manufacturing process by a tire uniformity machine (TUM), preferably testing a tire which has been nominally cooled down (i. e. , nominally completed curing) after removal from a tire curing mold. The method comprises the steps of: (1) selecting the tire during a tire manufacturing process after the selected tire has been rejected by a tire uniformity test due to at least one tire uniformity defect; (2) providing 360 degree circumferential tread restraint which holds the tread in an ideal tread shape, concentric to the axis of rotation and nominally perpendicular to the equatorial plane; (3) sealingly holding the beads concentric to, and equidistant from, the axis of rotation, and symmetrically spaced about the equatorial plane; and (4) inflating the selected tire to a controlled pressure, and holding the controlled pressure for a controlled time while the tread is restrained and the beads are sealingly held. An optional additional step before the inflating step (4) comprises heating the selected tire, preferably to a controlled temperature above a glass transition temperature of the tire's ply cord material; and before the end of the controlled time cooling the selected tire below the glass transition temperature. The method steps can be repeated if the corrected tire is still rejectable as determined by a repeated TUM test.

6966351, Nov 22, 2005

Sep 22, 2003

10/667536

Anthony John Scarpitti - Uniontown OH, US

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company - Akron OH

B60C015/00
B60C015/04
B60C015/05

152540, 152545, 152550, 152552

A pneumatic tire has a compact bead configuration, and high interlocking forces between the carcass ply cords and the bead cords. The carcass ply is formed from one or more cords wound continuously between a first end and a second end, wherein the at least the first end of the carcass ply is located in one tire bead portions. In the bead portion of the tire, the carcass ply cords are interwoven among a plurality of bead wires. The interwoven carcass ply cords follow a zigzag path.

20090133797, May 28, 2009

Nov 27, 2007

11/945606

Anthony John Scarpitti - Akron OH, US

THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY - Akron OH

B60C 9/28

152535

A tire casing is formed on an annular toroidally shaped building surface. The tire casing has a cord attachment elastomeric layer extending over the toroidally shaped building surface to a pair of radial inner ends R; a first and second bead stack , each bead stack having an axially inner stack and an axially outer stack the axially inner stack attached to one of the radial inner ends R of the first elastomeric layer ; one or more continuous lengths of first ply cords A, and one or more continuous lengths of second ply cords B. The one or more continuous lengths of the first ply cords A in combination with the one or more continuous lengths of the second ply cords B form a bias angled cord reinforced belt structure, the first ply cords A forming one cord reinforced sidewall and the second ply cords B forming an opposite cord reinforced sidewall.

20120111470, May 10, 2012

Nov 8, 2010

12/941166

Anthony John Scarpitti - Akron OH, US
Gary Robert Burg - Massillon OH, US

THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY - Akron OH

B60C 9/02
B29D 30/10

152548, 1561281

Tire including a continuous pressure membrane. The tire includes a carcass, a rubber layer surrounding the carcass, and a belt. The carcass includes at least one continuous pressure membrane defining a generally U-shaped cross section. The pressure membrane includes a crown portion, a first sidewall portion, and a second sidewall portion connected with the first sidewall portion by the crown portion. The belt may be composed of at least one additional continuous pressure membrane adjacent the crown portion.