Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm David E Wheeler
  • Patent number: 6374883
    Abstract: An aircraft tire with two aquachannels (14) provides a wide band area (17) in the central portion of the tread for improved wear properties. The aquachannels each comprise 4.5% to 7% of the tread width based on the design tread width of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Allen Richard Wilson
  • Patent number: 6354349
    Abstract: Rubber composites, for example pneumatic tipes, can be made using seamless, tubular reinforcement (14). By pulling socks of seamless tubular reinforcement over, for example, a tire building drum (10), spliceless carcass reinforcement (18) and spliceless belts (64) can be incorporated into tires. Methods of treating the spliceless tubular material, by drawing and by adhesive coating, enhance its strength and adhesion to rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Frederick Forbes Vannan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6352093
    Abstract: A tire (10) having a continuous folded belt construction (24) is shown to be more durable than conventional tire made using conventional steel reinforced cut belts. The folded belt construction of the invention is made by folding a reinforced (22) strip upon itself, wherein the folding is always in the same direction. The continuous folded belt construction may include an elastomeric core (23) that provides adhesion between the folded layers, and reduces kinking at the folded edges. Also, a splice (28) is used wherein substantial overlap is provided between two ends of the folded belt construction, and is made by cutting a first end (32) of the belt construction to accommodate a second end 44 of the belt construction (24) without modifying the second end 44 of the belt construction, thereby using a minimum amount of labor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Robert Allen Losey
  • Patent number: 6351933
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire for heavy duty use comprises at least one radial carcass ply, a tread portion disposed radially outwardly of the crown region of the carcass plies and a crown reinforcing structure interposed between the tread portion and the crown region of the carcass plies. The crown reinforcing structure includes a belt assembly having at least a first, radially innermost and a second, radially outermost belt ply. The cords reinforcing the belt plies are preferably made of PET or PEN and have a linear density comprised between 2000 and 16000 Denier, a twist comprised between 2 and 7 TPI and a twist multiplier comprised between 3 and 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: René François Reuter
  • Patent number: 6341476
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for bundling layered material comprises an anvil for receiving multiple units of bundled material, and a plurality of blades for compressing a tying material onto the bundled material. An apparatus of the invention is illustrated for use in a specific method of simultaneously stapling the end wire of a plurality of tire beads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Ralph Wayne Golightly
  • Patent number: 6330821
    Abstract: A method for detecting leakage of an expansion vessel 14 that, in an inflated form, occupies or has occupied at least a portion of a cavity 24 of an elastomeric article. The method includes the step of adding a tracer gas to a pressurized fluid. The method is characterized by the step of examining the atmosphere within the cavity of the elastomeric article, not within the expansion vessel, for evidence indicating that a portion of the tracer gas has escaped from the expansion vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: William Allen Arnold, Joseph Alan Incavo
  • Patent number: D451853
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Georges Nicolas Hilbert
  • Patent number: D451858
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Maurice Graas
  • Patent number: D451865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: John Kevin Clark, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Lonita Sue Mast, Randall Raymond Brayer, Joseph Louis Aull
  • Patent number: D452198
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Georges Nicolas Hilbert
  • Patent number: D453729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Christine Ann Demagall, Mark Henry Seloover, Michael Joseph Weber
  • Patent number: D453919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Lonita Sue Mast, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Randall Raymond Brayer
  • Patent number: D454832
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Richard Heinen
  • Patent number: D454836
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Fredrick Herbert Ford-Smith, Thomas Lloyd Peeples, Jr., Aleksandr Boris Portnoy, Mark David Slingluff
  • Patent number: D455116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Maurice Graas, Claude Lardo
  • Patent number: D455393
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Billy Joe Ratliff, Jr.
  • Patent number: D455997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Anthony John Fierro, Anthony John Scarpitti, David Charles Wagner, Karl Eric Sundkvist, Jeffrey Leon Sevart
  • Patent number: D455998
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard Heinen, Georges Nicolas Hilbert
  • Patent number: D455999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Maurice Graas
  • Patent number: D456000
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Maurice Graas