Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Layer or component removable to expose adhesive
Reexamination Certificate
1999-02-24
2001-05-29
Ahmad, Nasser (Department: 1772)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Layer or component removable to expose adhesive
C152S450000, C152S524000, C152S525000, C428S041300, C428S041500, C428S041800, C428S042100, C428S913000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06238760
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a pressure sensitive adhesive label having a non-stick pull tab portion to align a generally radially substantially maximum tread distance with a radially substantially minimum rim distance to abate tire tread variation or out of round of the tire tread.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the manufacture of tires, various inherent variations occur, such as weight differences in different segments of the tire, width differences in different segments of the tire, or radial differences in different segments of the tire such that the tread in one area can be off-set from the average radius; that is, the tire tread is “out of round.”
In the manufacture of vehicle rims, similar inherent deformities also occur, including different radial distances.
Heretofore, a tire has been applied randomly to a rim so that if a maximum radial tread distance existed, it generally still existed in the assembled tire or was compounded if the same was aligned with a maximum radial distance of the rim. Such deformities could result in excess tread wear in the particular out of round tread area and if the deformity was great enough, tire thumping could even occur.
Heretofore, labels have been utilized to radially align a specific portion of a tire tread such as a maximum radial tread distance with a minimum radial distance of a rim. Such labels have been generally entirely coated with an adhesive on one side thereof which made removal thereof from a tire difficult. Alternatively, an end portion of the totally coated label contained an end portion having an additional or deadening material thereon to neutralize the adhesive, thus forming a pull tab area. Such labels were still often difficult to grasp and cumbersome to manufacture.
Another pressure sensitive adhesive label having tire size information thereon has a release liner with a plurality of transverse cuts across the width at a center portion so that upon application to the tread of a tire, the center portion containing a uniform product code has a backing (i.e., a release liner) which can be read. These labels are not used for radially match mounting a tire and rim.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the present invention to reduce tire tread variation and especially the maximum tread distance from the average radial tread distance by match mounting a portion of the tire having a substantially maximum tread radius with a portion of the rim having a substantially minimum rim radius.
In pull tab labels for radially match mounting a tire with a rim wherein one pull tab label is attached to a tire in the vicinity of a maximum or minimum radial tread distance and another pull tab label is attached to a matingly engagable rim in the vicinity, respectively, of a minimum or a maximum rim radial distance so that the rim can be inserted into the tire with the rim pull tab label located substantially in radial alignment with said tire pull tab label to minimize the maximum radial tread offset of the tire, the improvement comprising at least one of said pull tab labels having a pressure sensitive adhesive coating substantially one side of a substrate with an end portion of said adhesively coated side being substantially free of said pressure sensitive adhesive so that upon alignment of said tire label with said rim label, said tire label and said rim label can be removed through said non-coated end portion.
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patent: 4060168 (1977-11-01), Romagnoli
patent: 4584219 (1986-04-01), Baartmans
patent: 5472756 (1995-12-01), Sechet
patent: 5840138 (1998-11-01), Majumdar
An article entitled “Mechanics of Pneumatic Tires”, Editor, Samuel K. Clark, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, DC 20590, p. 633, Aug., 1981.
An article entitled “Corresponding Vehicle Shake”, by A. H. Neill, Jr., and Akira Konda,Tire Science and Technology, TSTCA, vol. 2, No. 3, Aug., 1974, pp. 179 through 194.
Bollin Jeffery James
Majumdar Ramendra Nath
Ahmad Nasser
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Young, Jr. Henry C.
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