Abstract: The invention refers to the manufacture of a pneumatic tire having a toric profile of high transversal curvature wherein the reinforcing annular structure and the tread band are shaped together, starting from a cylindrical configuration to the final toric profile in a single shaping step, before being assembled to the carcass. The step for vulcanizing the pneumatic tire being carried out without requiring a further shaping of the pneumatic tire.

Abstract: The metal core used for reinforcing tire beads is constituted by a plurality of coils of wire (16), (17), (18), axially arranged side-by-side and radially superimposed, in which the wire has a cross section of modular shape with two equal and parallel opposite sides (1), (2), the profiles (15) of the corresponding ends of the opposite sides having a distance, from the axis of said pair of sides, whose value varies from one side to the other, said variation comprising at least one symmetrical deviation along, the development of its cross sectional profile.

Abstract: A vulcanization press for vehicle tires having a bed with at least two molds, each mold having a lower holding mold on the bed and an upper counter-mold. A guide column upstanding from the bed has a handling arm projecting outwardly therefrom which is capable of vertical movement along the column and rotational movement about the column. The handling arm has a series of rotatably operable latches for engaging the upper counter mold cover of one mold and to move it upwardly and arcuately sideways and vertically downwardly to be positioned upon the other mold.

Abstract: The described device for practicing a method of splicing the ends of a tire bead filler strip comprises two primary pliers systems (2, 2a) arranged to engage through respective gripping elements (25, 26) the opposite ends of an elastomeric filler (45) applied on the radial outer peripheral of a bead core (46). The pliers systems are pivoted around an axis spaced from the center of the bead core, with respect to the convergence point of the V-shaped opening formed by the ends of the filler and are angularly moveable upon carrying out their movement, the pliers systems rotate with respect to the other according to an angulation greater than the value of the angle from by the ends of the filler and that the gripping means (25, 26) are shaped in such a way that in a radial outer zone of the filler, the apices of the triangular shaped filler strip are overlapped during the action of the pliers systems. An ancillary pliers system (24) compresses laterally the overlapped ends to effect the final splicing.

Abstract: A tire for a motorcycle having an arcuate shaped cross-section with a height to width ratio between 0.20 and 0.35 and a carcass reinforcing structure having first and second strips. The first strip is made up of mutually parallel cords having a thickness not exceeding 80 cords/dm at an angle between 22.degree. and 35.degree. to the equatorial plane. The second (radial outer) strip also has mutually parallel cords but these cords, as compared with those of the first strip, have less thickness, a lower elasticity modulus and are at an angle between 18.degree. and 30.degree. and in the opposite sense with respect to the tire equatorial plane.

Abstract: Roller table comprising a front supporting group and a rear supporting group defining respectively a front sliding surface and a rear sliding surface longitudinally aligned. A bearing bar, on which lifting levers are pivoted, is secured to the rear supporting group, the levers being mutually placed side-by-side and bearing in a rotatable manner ancillary rollers at their respective upper ends. Each lifting lever is provided in the lower part with a feeler pin engaged in a sliding manner along a guiding groove provided in a guiding bar integral with the front supporting group. The guiding groove is shaped in such a way that when the front and rear supporting groups are moved away the one from the other, the ancillary rollers are lifted one by one, one after the other, and led to the level of the front and rear sliding surfaces to support a product, during its working, in the portion between the spaced sliding surfaces.

Abstract: The metal core used for reinforcing tire beads is constituted by a plurality of coils of wire (16), (17), (18), axially arranged side-by-side and radially superimposed, in which the wire has a cross-section of modular shape with two equal and parallel opposite sides (1), (2), the profiles (15) of the corresponding ends of the opposite sides having a distance, from the axis of said pair of sides, whose value varies from one side to the other, said variation comprising at least one symmetrical deviation along the development of its cross-sectional profile.

Abstract: The described device comprises two primary pliers systems (2, 2a) arranged to engage through respective gripping elements (25, 26) the opposite ends of an elastomeric filler (45) applied on the radial outer peripheral of a bead core (46). The pliers systems are pivoted around an axis spaced from the center of the bead core, with respect to the convergence point of the V-shaped opening formed by the ends of the filler and are angularly moveable upon carrying out their movement, the pliers systems rotate with respect to the other according to an angulation greater than the value of the angle from by the ends of the filler and that the gripping means (25, 26) are shaped in such a way that in a radial outer zone of the filler, the ends are overlapped during the action of the pliers systems. An ancillary pliers system (24) compresses laterally the overlapped ends to effect the final splicing.

Abstract: The described device includes a bearing element positioned to engage a bead core and subjected to the action of a friction wheel acting in such a way as to make the bead core rotate around its own axis. Two pressure discs arranged specularly with respect to the lying median plane of the bead core act on opposite sides of a filler to apply the same on the outer peripheral chafer of the bead core while this latter is rotating. The pressure discs lie according to respective planes convergent toward the bead core and divergent in the sense of rotation of the bead core to favor the release of the filler from the pressure discs. The pressure discs are thrust on the filler through a pneumatic cylinder which exerts a constant force on an oscillating support according to an axis parallel to the bead core axis and bearing the discs themselves.

Abstract: The invention relates to a breaker belt structure to be used in pneumatic tires, in particular in those of the radial carcass type. The structure comprises a radially outer strip of circumferentially arranged cords (61), preferably but not exclusively made of textile material, as polyamide or aromatic polyamide, and two felted layers (62), (63), situated in a radially inner position, which comprise an elastomeric or plastomeric supporting material and a reinforcing filler of aramide pulp oriented along a preferred direction which is inclined with respect to the circumferential direction, the preferred directions of orientation in the two felted layers being preferably inclined symmetrically to each other at an angle of 45.degree. with respect to said circumferential direction.