Abstract: Method and apparatus for building a cord or wire wound carcass for a closed torus tire. An endless flattened inflatable tube providing a liner for the carcass and coaxially spaced bead rings are placed on a support comprising a cylindrical array of rolls. The bead rings are spaced axially to control the length of each turn of cord or wire wound in the flattened oval path around them. A single wire or cord is wound in a flat oval orbit about the liner and bead rings by orbiting a spool along a track having two straight parallel portions, one inside, the other outside the bead rings and liner. The parallel track portions are connected at their ends by semi-circular track portions. No rigid core is required. After winding the cord or wire about the liner and bead rings, the liner is inflated and the bead rings are shifted axially toward each other to the axial spacing appropriate for the inflated tire in use.

Abstract: The bond strength of composite articles of rubber adhered to ferrous metal substrates through an adhesive is substantially improved at ambient and elevated temperatures by using as the adhesive an interpolymer comprising a conjugated diene and a heterocyclic nitrogen base and by using a rubber containing about 5-60 parts of silica filler per 100 parts by weight of rubber, said silica having a purity on an anhydrous basis of at least 95%.

Abstract: Adhesion of metals to vulcanizable elastomers is promoted by a process of incorporating into the elastomer a metal deactivator and then vulcanizing the elastomeric composition while it is in contact with the metal surface.

Abstract: The bond strength of composite articles of rubber adhered to ferrous metal substrates through an adhesive is substantially improved at ambient and elevated temperatures by using as the adhesive an interpolymer comprising a conjugated diene and a heterocyclic nitrogen base and containing about 5-180 parts of silica filler per 100 parts by weight of interpolymer. Further improvement is achieved by using a rubber containing about 0.025 to about 1.0 parts by weight of a cobalt compound, calculated as cobalt metal, per 100 parts of rubber.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for use in building a closed torus tire. An expandable sleeve having an inflatable portion expands to wrap a sheet of tire building material partially about a disintegratable generally toroidal core. A bladder beneath the sleeve is then inflated to roll the sleeve toward the core causing the edges of the sheet to flip or snap from the sleeve surface to the core surface. The apparatus includes a drum expandable to either of two fully supported and different building diameters enabling stable support first of the core with at least one sheet of material engaged with the internal circumference of the core, and then the core with added thickness of tire components engaged with the internal diameter of the core.

Abstract: Unsaturate-resorcinol polymers comprising alkylene-bridged resorcinol units resulting from introducing olefinic unsaturated radicals of 3-10 carbon atoms into the nucleus of the resorcinol are condensed with resol which condensation products are adhesives for bonding textiles material to rubber.

Abstract: Rubber is adhered to metal such as the metal in the belt of a vehicle tire or conveyor belt, by first coating the metal with rubber containing a small amount of the amine of cobaltous chloride, CoCl.sub.2.2NH.sub.3. The metal may first be zinc coated.