Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Reshaping – resizing or vulcanizing means for tire – tire... – Internal mold – form or support for toroid
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-05
2006-12-05
Mackey, James P. (Department: 1722)
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Reshaping, resizing or vulcanizing means for tire, tire...
Internal mold, form or support for toroid
C425S043000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07144236
ABSTRACT:
An expandable bladder for shaping a pneumatic tire to be mounted inside a tire curing press has a pair of opposing annular beads and an expansion portion located between the pair of annular beads. The expansion portion of the bladder has a central portion, shoulder portions, and sidewall portions. When the bladder is in a mounted but uninflated mode, the shoulder portions have a radius of curvature less than infinity. At a distance (x) from each end of the central portion, the bladder has an increased thickness in the shoulder and upper sidewall portions.
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Ashton Susan Lynn
Lee Ching-Chih
Okoye Ikechukwu Joel
Quijano Alfonso
Wang Yang
Krawczyk Nancy T.
Mackey James P.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
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