Inventors:
Richard Nicholas Hrycyk - Canton OH, US
Donald Chester Kubinski - Medina OH, US
Richard Joseph Piccin - Uniontown OH, US
Assignee:
THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY - Akron OH
International Classification:
B29D 30/48
Abstract:
A chipper and apex subassembly as an intermediate article of manufacture in a pneumatic tire has an apex strip formed as a continuous elastomeric strip of unvulcanized material having a bottom base portion and two opposing sides extending towards the narrow outer tip and a chipper ply strip reinforced with parallel cords oriented on a bias angle relative to the length of the strip cojoined to the apex along the length of the strips and attached to one side of the unvulcanized apex strips on an outer surface. The chipper is spaced from the bottom base portion of the apex and extends widthwise towards the narrow outer tip to form a subassembly of a chipper and apex as an intermediate article of manufacture. Additionally the subassembly can be attached to bead core to make a subassembly as a further intermediate article of manufacture.