Abstract: Safety tire comprising a tread (11) reinforced by an inextensible belt (23), spaced beads (12), and side walls (14) connecting the beads to the sides of the tread, defining below the latter a central inflatable chamber (15), each side wall at least being reinforced by a carcass (21), and comprising on the inside of the carcass a supporting shaped part or support member (20) of lenticular section, made of an elastomer and extending from the vicinity of the beads (12) to below the edges of the belt, said tire being characterized in that the said shaped supporting parts (20) are constituted by two parts with different flexibility, whereof one (20.sub.1) disposed near the inner face of the carcass (21) is of a more flexible elastomer while the other (20.sub.2) disposed inside the tire is of less flexible elastomer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to vehicle tires of the kind having a crown belt formed from at least one pair of plies made of cords which are orientated in directions which intersect at small angles, and having sidewalls each reinforced by at least one strong half-ply making up a carcass which is interrupted under the belt.The invention which consists in a combination of the following features:(a) the tire has a low cross-section in which the ratio of height over width is less than 0.8, for example between 0.3 and 0.7, and,(b) the half carcass-plies are connected together in the area of the tire crown of the tire by a layer which has a strength of less than 50 daN per centimeter of width for an extension of 10% and whose elastic extensibility is at least 10%.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire of low cross-section of a height to width ratio equal to or less than 0.8, and which is suitable for use at high speed. The tire has a radial carcass and a crown belt interposed between the radial carcass and the tire tread for the width of the tread surface, the belt being formed from two main plies of unequal width composed of high modulus flexible cords which are orientated in opposite direction at small angles, one at least of the plies having its lateral edges folded over and flattened against the inner face of the belt. A third, narrower, belt ply is positioned on the outer face of the belt against the central part of the ply whose edges are folded. The width of the third ply is between the width of the narrower and unfolded ply and the width of the space between the edges of the wider folded ply.