Tire with label

• US 8,869,854 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2012
• Issued: 10/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• Original Assignee: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• Inventors: Landers, Samuel Patrick, Dixon, Max Harold, Bucher, Frank Helmut
• Primary Examiner(s): FISCHER, JUSTIN R
• Application Number:
  US13/590,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20130126063A1
• Time in Patent Office: 798 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 152/523
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/0612 Means for forming recesses or protrusions in the tyres, e.g. grooves or ribs, to create the tread or sidewalls patterns
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/0606 Vulcanising moulds not integral with vulcanising presses for solid tyres B29D30/02
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 13/001 Decorating, marking or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 152/10495 Pneumatic tire or inner tube
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24355 Continuous and nonuniform or irregular surface on layer or component [e.g., roofing, etc.]

Abstract

A pneumatic tire is disclosed having a label affixed to a plurality of whiskers extending from the outer sidewall of the tire. The whiskers may be T shaped. The label may be colored.

Claims

1. A pneumatic tire comprising a tread, and a sidewall having a plurality of sidewall whiskers formed in a specified pattern, wherein the sidewall whiskers project from the outer surface of the sidewall, and a label having an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the lower surface of the label has a plurality of T shaped whiskers which project from said lower surface and which are affixed to the sidewall whiskers with an adhesive.

2. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 wherein the label is formed of polyvinyl chloride.

3. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 wherein the label is colored.

4. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 wherein the tire sidewall has T shaped whiskers.