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
2008-09-25
2011-11-15
Mackey, James (Department: 1744)
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
08057204
ABSTRACT:
An expandable bladder for shaping a pneumatic tire is provided. The bladder in an unmounted, relaxed state has a shaped body having a pair of opposed annular beads, said body further comprising a central portion, sidewall portions, and shoulder portions interposed between the central portion and the sidewall portions, wherein the body is defined by an outer contour surface and an inner contour surface, wherein the central portion has gauge which increases to a maximum value axially inward of the shoulder portion, and wherein the bladder gauge in the shoulder is less than the maximum value, and wherein the bladder gauge increases from the shoulder to the bead.
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European Search Report completed Mar. 25, 2009.
Agostini Giorgio
Corvasce Filomeno Gennaro
Di Giacomo Russo Massimo
Mackey James
Rickey June E.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
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