PNEUMATIC TIRE FOR MOTORCYCLE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME
First Claim
1. A pneumatic tire for a motorcycle having a tread portion consisting of a rubber strip-laminating body formed by continuously and spirally winding a rubber strip in the tire circumferential direction, wherein an imaginary extended plane of an outermost layer of the rubber strip-laminating body forming the surface of the tread portion defined by extending a boundary between the rubber strips constituting the outermost layer from the surface of the tread portion to the outside of the tire is situated in a tread end side with respect to a normal line of the surface of the tread portion.
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Abstract
The present invention aims to improve the durability of a motorcycle pneumatic tire in which a tread portion is formed by a rubber strip-laminating body and to provide a method of producing such tire.
A pneumatic tire 1 for a motorcycle has a tread portion 5 consisting of a rubber strip-laminating body 8 formed by continuously and spirally winding a rubber strip 11 in the tire circumferential direction. An imaginary extended plane p of an outermost layer 10a of the rubber strip-laminating body 8 forming the surface 9 of the tread portion defined by extending a boundary between the rubber strips constituting the outermost layer from the surface 9 of the tread portion to the outside of the tire is situated in a tread end side with respect to a normal line n of the surface 9 of the tread portion. The tire 1 is produced by winding the rubber strip 11 sequentially from the tread end toward the tire equatorial plane CL in a process of forming the outermost layer of the rubber strip to be the surface of the tread portion.
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- 1. A pneumatic tire for a motorcycle having a tread portion consisting of a rubber strip-laminating body formed by continuously and spirally winding a rubber strip in the tire circumferential direction, wherein an imaginary extended plane of an outermost layer of the rubber strip-laminating body forming the surface of the tread portion defined by extending a boundary between the rubber strips constituting the outermost layer from the surface of the tread portion to the outside of the tire is situated in a tread end side with respect to a normal line of the surface of the tread portion.
- 6. A method of producing a pneumatic tire for a motorcycle in which a rubber strip is laminated on a rigid core by continuously and spirally winding it in the tire circumferential direction to form a tread portion, wherein, in a process of forming an outermost layer of the rubber strip to be the surface of the tread portion, the rubber strip is so winded on the rigid core in a radially expanded state sequentially from a tread end toward the tire equatorial plane that an imaginary extended plane defined by extending a boundary between the rubber strip from the surface of the tread portion to the outside of the tire is situated in a tread end side with respect to a normal line of the surface of the tread portion.
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