Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire comprising a tread strip which forms the tire tread and is made from an electrically insulating or poorly conducting material and comprising, beneath the tread strip, a layer which is a good electrical conductor wherein, in order to bring about an adequate dissipation of electrical charge from the vehicle bodywork, the layer which is of good electrical conductivity extends at least regionally up to and into the tire running surface when considered over the circumference of the tire.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing puncture sealing compositions from a tire, characterized by allowing air pressure to flow out of the tire via the valve, removing the tire valve, introducing a hose into the tire through the valve bore until the introduced hose end dips deeply into the sealing preparation contained in the tire and generating a pressure differential so that the sealing preparation is removed through the hose.

Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire includes a carcass, a tread strip, a breaker arrangement provided between the carcass and the tread strip and includes at least two breaker plies having threads or cords of non-metallic material which extend at a predetermined angle to the mid-circumferential plane of the tire and serve as reinforcing elements. A breaker cover surrounds the breaker arrangement, or at least in, regions of its width. The breaker cover includes at least one cover ply having threads or cords which extend at least substantially in the circumferential direction of the tire. The breaker cover has threads or cords of a heat-shrinking material substantially in the shoulder region of the tire. In the middle tire region lying between the threads or cords either no breaker cover is provided or a breaker cover is provided with threads or cords of a material with low thermal shrinkage or no thermal shrinkage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a container for the sealing of tires with punctures, with which it is possible to first mix a liquid sealant and a filler when sealing is to take place, but to keep them separate during the prior storage. The container has a first chamber for filler and a second chamber for the liquid sealant. The chambers are fixedly or movably connected together and at least one of the chambers can be compressed. Between the chambers there is a partition wall, which consists at least in part of a rupturable member which is torn so that the liquid sealant and the filler mix before injection of the mixture into the tire via an outlet valve by compression of the chamber.

Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire comprises a carcass, a tread strip, and a breaker arrangement arranged between the carcass and the tread strip. The breaker arrangment includes at least two breaker plies which have threads or cords which serve as load-carrying members and extend at an angle to the mid-circumferential plane of the tire. A breaker cover surrounds the breaker arrangement at least in the region of the breaker arrangement's axial side edges. The breaker cover has at least one cover ply consisting of threads or cords which extend at least substantially in the circumferential direction of the tire. The breaker cover is formed of a helically wound strip bandage. At least one respective ply separating cushion layer is present in each of the two axial side regions of the breaker arrangement.

Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire comprises a single ply or multi-ply radial carcass anchored to beads, a tread, and a breaker arrangement provided between the carcass and the tread. The breaker arrangement is preferably built up of at least two cut breaker plies with the threads or cords of the cut breaker plies, which serve as strength carriers and extend parallel to one another in the respective ply, crossing at a predetermined angle to the central mid-circumferential plane. The tire also comprises at least one cover ply of cords or threads extending substantially in the circumferential direction of the tire, at least one cover ply surrounding the breaker arrangement at least in the breaker arrangement's edge regions. In the preferred embodiment the breaker arrangement (4) has threads or cords (9) of non-metallic material and a material with a low thermal shrinkage or no thermal shrinkage is used as the material for the treads or cords (8) of the at least one cover ply (5).

Abstract: Rubber mixtures vulcanisable with sulphur are proposed which lead to tires with a good rolling resistance and driving behavior on wet roads without the other driving characteristics deteriorating. The rubber mixtures contain a copolymer of conjugated diene and vinyl aromatic compound manufactured by emulsion polymerisation, polyisoprene, polybutadiene, silica, carbon black in a specific range of quantities and also customary additives and a vulcanisation system. A further embodiment additionally contains copolymer manufactured by solution polymerisation in specific quantity ranges, and in this embodiment the polyisoprene is an optional component.

Abstract: A bead core for a pneumatic tire is built up from a ring element and a load carrying element wound into the ring element, wherein the load carrying winding is subdivided by a support wall of the ring element into two regions. The boundary walls at the edge regions of the ring element preferably have a radial extent less than that of the support wall.

Abstract: A rubber mixture vulcanizable with sulphur, a tire tread manufactured from it and also tires with a vulcanized tread are proposed. The rubber mixture contains in each case 100 parts by weight of elastomers, 20 to 80 parts by weight of a copolymer of conjugated diene and vinyl aromatic compound with very low long chain branching manufactured by solution polymerization in a hydrocarbon solvent, 10 to 50 parts by weight of polybutadiene with very low long chain branching, 10 to 30 parts by weight of polyisoprene with a 3,4 bond content of 50 to 70% by weight and 30 to 100 parts by weight of silica as filler material. Through the special combination of the three elastomers with silica as a filler material one obtains an easily processable mixture which leads to vulcanized tire treads with improved grip on wet and dry surfaces.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing pneumatic vehicle tires, the tires having a carcass which extends between two bead rings and a breaker arranged between the carcass and a tread, wherein the respective tire blank is built up using exclusively non-metallic components, and wherein, in the course of vulcanization and shaping which takes place under the action of heat and pressure, at least a part of the thermal energy that is required is introduced into the tire in the form of microwave energy. In order to improve the tire quality and in particular to avoid defects as a result of incorrect thermal treatment, the temperature which prevails in the tire is controlled in different tire regions in dependence on the temperature development and differently for different tire regions.

Abstract: A caoutchouc mixture vulcanisable with sulphur, tire treads manufactured therefrom and also tires with these vulcanised tire treads are proposed. The caoutchouc mixture contains 30 to 100 parts by weight of isoprene-butadiene copolymer, 0 to 70 parts by weight of one or more further elastomers, 20 to 90 parts by weight of silica as a filler material, customary additives and also a vulcanisation system, with all parts by weight being related to 100 parts by weight of total elastomers. This caoutchouc mixture delivers tire treads with good resistance to abrasion and a low loss factor which is correlated with a low rolling resistance.

Abstract: A tread for pneumatic vehicle tires comprising a central row of tread blocks extending in the circumferential direction of the tire and rows of tread blocks arranged in the shoulder regions of the tire is described. The rows of blocks arranged in the shoulder regions of the tire are separated from the central row of tread blocks by circumferential grooves. The edges of the tread blocks which laterally border the circumferential grooves extend inclined relative to the central circumferential plane of the tire. Wave-shaped sipes or knife-cuts are provided in the tread blocks with the tread blocks of the rows of blocks arranged in the shoulder regions of the tire being more pronouncedly divided or split by sipes than the tread blocks of the central row blocks.

Abstract: A caoutchouc mixture vulcanisable with sulphur, tyre treads manufactured therefrom and also tyres with a vulcanised tread are proposed. The caoutchouc mixture contains 30 to 100 parts by weight of isoprene-butadiene-styrene terpolymer with a glass transition temperature range between -90.degree. C. and 20.degree. C., 0 to 70 parts by weight of one or more further elastomers, 20 to 90 parts by weight of silica as filler material, customary additives and also a vulcanisation system. This caoutchouc mixture delivers tyre treads with good resistance to abrasion and a low loss factor which is correlated with a low running resistance.

Abstract: A bead ring arrangement for vehicle tires in which the wire layers of the wire bundle are wound from a single wire and the wire layer at the core apex side has fewer turns than the wire layer lying beneath it.

Abstract: Reinforcement cord for elastomeric products, in particular reinforcement cords, for use in vehicle tires comprising inner filaments (1) and at least one outer filament (2) wound helically around the inner filaments (1), characterised in that at least the outer filament (2) has a flattened cross-section and is so dimensioned and positioned that it substantially co-determines the mechanical characteristics of the reinforcement cord via line-like and/or area contact locations with the inner filaments (1).

Abstract: A tire tread for pneumatic vehicle tires comprising tread blocks of a central block row separated from one another by inclined grooves which consist of two angularly extending groove sections which meet at the central circumferential plane. Furthermore, two circumferential grooves extend at an acute angle to the circumferential plane of the tire in the region of the blocks which bound them at the sides.