Abstract: An apertured insulation unit is disclosed for interposition between a mold having at least one cavity in which elastomeric stock can be cured in the form of said cavity and an injection unit from which elastomeric stock can be expelled and transferred through the insulation unit to the mold cavity, the mold and injection unit being movable axially relative to one another into and out of pressing association with respective opposite side-faces of the insulation unit. The insulation unit serves to prevent curing of elastomeric stock remaining in the injection unit with the curing of the portion of such stock transferred to the cavity, without separation of either the mold or the injection unit from the insulation unit. The insulation unit is at least in part in the form of a thin, flexible, apertured plate constituted of a thermal-insulatory material which is engageable and forms a parting line with the mold.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a radial carcass and at least two plies of steel cord belts as constituents of the reusable tire body has recap components that include an unvulcanized reinforcement belt comprising two spaced unconnected strips having rubberized textile cord elements oriented parallel with respect to the equatorial plane of the tire. Each strip is wound around a marginal zone of the tire under tension for at least one full winding. An unvulcanized tread strip is applied thereover. Subsequent vulcanization assures a firm bond between the recap components and the used tire body.

Abstract: In a pneumatic, tired wheel having a tubeless tire mounted on the rim of the wheel, the improvement comprising a toroidal support device to enable the tired wheel to travel in a flat state. The support device comprises an inflatable, toroidal, inner tube located on the rim for elastically clamping the tire beads against the rim flanges, said tube radially extending from the well of the rim to or slightly beyond the radially outer edges of the rim flanges, and a toroidal support element whose radially internal, circumferential wall section is impervious to puncture and lies adjacent the radially external, circumferential area of the inner tube, and wherein the outer surface area of the support element is spaced from the inner surface area of the tire when the tire is in its inflated state so that under normal travel conditions the support element does not contact the inner surface area of the tire.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire, after manufacture, is provided with a propellant material and a foam forming sealant material in its interior pressurizable space. The propellant and sealant are isolated from each other during normal running conditions of the tire and have no significant effect on the normal running characteristics of the tire. When a tire fails due to a puncture or the like, a loss of tire pressure and/or collapse of the tire structure and/or heat build up in the bead area due to friction permit the propellant and the foam forming materials to interreact.In one embodiment of the invention the propellant and sealant are enclosed in separate chambers of a plurality of dual-chamber containers secured to the bead portion of the tire and/or a rim base. In other embodiments a plurality of mono-chamber containers house one of the materials, the other material being uncontained in the pressurizable space.

Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire having tread, outer shoulder, and sidewall portions of elastomeric material over a radial carcass. The tread and outer shoulder portions comprise similar circumferentially overlapping patterns of lugs and grooves. The majority of the edges of the lugs are disposed at an angle of approximately 60.degree. with respect to the equator of the tire. The tire has a groove adjacent each outer shoulder portion and bounded by radially displaced adjacent outer shoulder lug portions and by radially displaced adjacent sidewall lugs. Each such groove adjacent each outer shoulder portion has relatively long sections extending circumferentially of the tire. The tire has a tread having at all points of the tread lug contact area substantially identical surface pressures and has high road holding ability on dry as well as on wet or snow-covered roads. The tire is also effective in draining a substantial volume of water or waterlogged snow and provides improved travel confort.

Abstract: Single-screw extruder for mixing viscous materials by dividing material in only the forward flow direction in an irregular sequence into a plurality of communicating flow paths which are subjected to constant change between being divided and rejoined. Extruder design can be varied by removable and interchangeable partial arcuate screw sections which are affixed to the body of the screw in the space between selected threads of a continuous screw thread.

Abstract: Reinforcement for a pneumatic tire for vehicles, comprising a first, inner belt ply, a pair of lateral strips connected to the free edges of the inner belt ply, the lateral strips and the inner belt ply lying in substantially the same plane, and a second, outer belt ply having a pair of opposed flanges which fold over and hem in the lateral strips and at least the marginal areas of the inner belt ply. The lateral strips are substantially spaced apart from the folded edges of the outer belt ply, so that the outer belt ply is superpositioned on itself in the areas between the folded edges of the outer belt ply and the free edges of the lateral strips.