Abstract: A radial carcass motor vehicle tire having a cross-section in which the ratio of the section height/overall width is less than 1 and preferably not greater than 0.7 and which is intended to be mounted on a rim provided with bead-seats inclined at an angle of 15.degree. with respect to the rotation axis, is provided with a bead-wire core around which the extremity of the carcass ply or plies, is turned-up from the inside towards the outside. The bead-wire cores are formed of rubberized metallic wires, wound spirally so as to present a polygonal cross-section elongated in the axial direction. The base of the core is inclined at an angle of 15.degree. with respect to the rotation axis. The bead-core has an irregular geometrical section, having its bary-center axially shifted to the outside with respect to the line of the mid-plane of the bead-core base from between 7% to 30% of the axial width of the bead-core base.

Abstract: A bale turner for attachment to a bale making machine for rotating bales one quarter turn containing a concave plate suspended between two frame members following behind the discharge chute of the hay baler. A guide bar is welded to the concave plate which forces the edge of the bale down into the center of the concave plate as the bale travels down the plate from the discharge chute of the hay baler. This in effect starts to set the bale on edge so that it would rotate back onto the plate chamber side down.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire cover has a carcase comprises at least one inner radial ply of threads of aromatic polyamide and at least two outer plies of threads having elongation values greater than those of the said aromatic polyamide and arranged in alternately crossing directions from one of said outer ply to another, while the inner radial ply or plies are such as to be able to bear the inflation pressure on its or their own.

Abstract: In a pneumatic, tired wheel having a tubeless tire mounted on the rim of the wheel, the improvement comprising a toroidal support device to enable the tired wheel to travel in a flat state. The support device comprises an inflatable, toroidal, inner tube located on the rim for elastically clamping the tire beads against the rim flanges, said tube radially extending from the well of the rim to or slightly beyond the radially outer edges of the rim flanges, and a toroidal support element whose radially internal, circumferential wall section is impervious to puncture and lies adjacent the radially external, circumferential area of the inner tube, and wherein the outer surface area of the support element is spaced from the inner surface area of the tire when the tire is in its inflated state so that under normal travel conditions the support element does not contact the inner surface area of the tire.

Abstract: A composite cord used in the reinforcement of pneumatic tires is composed of a plurality of twisted steel strands cabled around a multifilament core.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a ski pole basket, a portion of said basket defining a locking clip for securing the basket to a pair of skis, each basket having a gripping surface thereon for securing the basket to the handle of the second pole such that the two poles with their handles and baskets so secured define a carrying assembly for the poles and skis.

Abstract: The pneumatic tire has a reinforcing belt that is asymmetric with respect to the equatorial plane of the tire. The reinforcing belt includes a ply folded to form confronting main and auxiliary portions, with the fold being situated at an axially internal edge of the tire. Other embodiments of the reinforcing belt include a supplementary ply preferably positioned adjacent the auxiliary ply.Further embodiments of the tire include a tread having sculpture characteristics that differ from the axially internal side of the equatorial plane to the axially external side thereof, with provision for the reinforcement belt to be of lesser diameter at an axially external edge of the tire than at an axially internal edge thereof.

Abstract: A safety tire and wheel rim assembly having a safety support member comprising a plurality of arcuate segments of rigid material coupled together at their ends and mounted in a channel-shaped bearing ring mounted on the wheel rim wherein the bearing ring is located against tire beads to retain them in position.

Abstract: A track assembly for a vehicle has a plurality of grousered track shoes and a cleaning member extending between at least two of the shoes. The member moves relative to the track shoes as the track assembly deflects and avoids the packing of dirt and material between the grousers of the track shoes.

Abstract: A tire and wheel assembly in which the tire tread is wider than any other part of the tire and is reinforced by an inextensible annular structure. The tire sidewalls are substantially straight in cross section and are maintained in a precompressed state between tread and rim when mounted on the rim.

Abstract: A self-supporting motor-vehicle tire has an outer ring supporting the tread, an inner ring adapted to be fitted to a rim or to be placed upon a hub, and supporting elements uniting the said rings. The supporting elements are in the form of honeycomb-like cells running substantially parallel to the axis of the tire, the average wall thickness of the cells being less than approximately one-thirtieth of the width of the tire, while the average cross-sectional area of the interior of a cell, expressed in cm.sup.2, is less than about one-tenth of the corresponding tire width measured in centimeters.

Abstract: A buoyant body stabilized against both roll and heave is described in which the hull has a generally spherical surface and in which the weight of the hull and its contents is of such magnitude and is distributed so that the body floats with a predetermined portion up and so that the natural periods of both roll and heave oscillations are greater than the periods of any waves of significant height reasonably expected to be encountered in the waters where the body is deployed. Also described is the use of the body as a self-propelled off shore oil terminal into which a super tanker can discharge its entire load while remaining in deep, traffic free water.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire for a vehicle has a carcass made from cords with the ends of the cords turned up around the beads of the tire. The crown of the tire has a tread and a reinforcing breaking structure. The breaker structure has three layers of cords superimposed one over the other with the width of the inner most layer being larger than the width of the next adjacent layer. The cords in each of the inner most and next adjacent layers are parallel to each other and are inclined at an angle of about 10.degree. to 35.degree. with respect to the equatorial plane of the tire. The cords of the innermost layer are extended in one direction and cross those of the next adjacent layer. A third layer of cords is disposed between the tread and the said next adjacent layer. The cords in this third layer are of a textile material which will shrink with increase in temperature.

Abstract: An improved tire-slip preventing device consisting of a plurality of cross belts arranged across a pair of parallel cords in the form of a ladder is constructed so that one end of every other cross belt can be detached from the associated cord. The detachable end of every other cross belt is attached to the associated cord after the device has been wrapped about the tire, whereby a very tight fit between the tire and the device can be easily obtained. The last cross belt at one end is made detachable or otherwise one of the cords is provided at an intermediate portion thereof with a separable link, thus permitting the device to be wrapped about the tire without raising the vehicle or driving it onto the device.

Abstract: A tire chain with a plurality of vertical links connected to each other by means of connecting elements, each comprising an essentially double-T-shaped basic body provided with at least one projection between its cross-bars, which projection is offset by 90.degree. to the cross-bars and projecting into the inner space of at least one vertical link hingedly connected by the connecting element with at least two further vertical links, the links connected together all surrounding the longitudinal bar of the basic body with their U-shaped bow portions.

Abstract: In a load system which involves a powered chain hoist wherein raising or lowering of a load is effected by a rotating drive sprocket over which the chain is trained, the amplitude of motion due to resonant response of the load system as a consequence of coincidence between the natural frequency of the load system and the frequency of oscillatory excitation produced by the chain/sprocket drive is significantly reduced by providing an energy dissipation device in series with the load. This device involves a spring mechanism which permits a limited motion at the resonant condition, in combination with a controlled damping factor. The spring compliance of the device normally will lie in the range of about 1/2-3 times the spring compliance of the active length of the chain at the resonant condition and the relation between the spring rate of the device and the effective damping factor is perferably such that the spring rate divided by the damping factor will be at least about 0.006 seconds.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a "run-flat" capability, is disclosed. The tire is in the form of a substantially toroidally shaped carcass having a pair of bead-reinforced sidewall regions and a crown region annularly bridging the sidewall regions. Internally of the carcass, there is provided an expandable nail-deflector for deflecting a nail that punctures, for example, the crown region. The nail deflector has a releasably constrained normal condition when the crown region is puncture-free that is annularly spaced from the interior of the crown region, and is circumferentially self-expandable into engagement with the interior of the crown region upon puncture of the latter by a nail to deflect such nail harmlessly away from its path of entry.

Abstract: A self-sealing pneumatic tire which comprises a tire casing having an integral, thin gauge, resilient closed cell structure disposed in its inward portion. Such a tire structure has particular utility for sealing against puncturing objects.

Abstract: A puncture sealing tire has an inner layer consisting of closed cell cellular rubber, in direct contact with the inflation gas. The inner layer is preferably coated with a solid fluent material capable of flowing into punctures at operating temperatures.

Abstract: Apparatus for storing, protecting, and carrying first and second snow skis having their bottom surfaces placed adjacent to each other is disclosed, in the preferred embodiment, as a container. The container is thin-walled, elongated, and hollow and includes container portions arranged in a telescopic relation. The preferred three portions of the container can also be locked at any of several desired step locations intended to conform to differing length skis. First and second snow skis are removably captured within the interior of the container first by a protrusion formed integrally with a closed end of one of the container portions which engages and holds the ends of the skis, second by a sloped bottom surface formed integral with the closed end of another container portion which urges the ski tips upward, and third by a depression in the ski case.