Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Frederick K. Lacher, Esq.
  • Tire mold reinforcement
    Patent number: 6551086
    Abstract: Making a tire mold having a plurality of complete tire mold segments (20) of epoxy resin mold material formed in the chambers (18) of segmental shoes (10) and having reinforced stand alone ribs (56) formed in recesses in the tread models mounted in the shoes. The shoes (10) and models (50) are reusable and have standard shoe split diameters and chord lengths to reduce the time necessary to make the molds. The models (50) are of resilient material and are also reusable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
    Inventors: James Robert Tuttle, Stanley Anthony Gwizdak, Jr., Roger Alden Fleming, James Glen Moore, Jr., Gary Scott Christie, Clarence Maxon Gainer, Bernard Byron Jacobs, Stephanie Anne Lee, Harold Eugene Marlott, Frederick Forbes Vannan, Jr.
  • Surface winding on an a-frame winder
    Patent number: 6536702
    Abstract: A strip of sheet material is wound on a spool by a driving belt wrapped around spaced rollers of a surface winder which urge the sheet material into contact with the spool, rotating the spool, and at the same time, applying the sheet material to the spool, with layers of the material being separated by a liner wrapped around the spool as the sheet material is being applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard David Vargo, Charles Terry Huffstetler, Martin Lamar Sentmanat
  • Method of making a flow channel block
    Patent number: 6497834
    Abstract: Changing the contour of a recess (12) in a body of solid material to a revised contour wherein a pattern (24) is made having the revised contour and this pattern is placed in the recess with a curable plastic material (31). After the curable plastic material is hardened, the pattern is removed providing the revised contour (30) of the recess. The body of solid material can be a flow channel block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
    Inventors: Richard David Vargo, Gary Robert Burg
  • Tire mold heat transfer system
    Patent number: 6413068
    Abstract: A tire mold heat transfer system in which heat pipes are enclosed in tubular passages in the tire mold to transfer heat to heated positions adjacent the tread and sidewall forming sections of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Larry Eugene Steidl, James Anthony Bukowski, George Michael Stoila