Method for controlling the discharge of fluids during a process for vulcanization and molding of a green tire and tire for vehicle wheels

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11292295-B2
Application number	US-201514721530-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 26, 2015
Priority date	Jun 9, 2009
Publication date	Apr 5, 2022
Grant date	Apr 5, 2022

Abstract

A method for controlling the discharge of fluids during a process for vulcanization and moulding of a green tire includes the steps of: building at least one portion of a radially internal surface of a green tire by winding of a continuous elongated element of elastomeric material into a plurality of coils confining circumferential grooves along the rolling direction of the tire; disposing the circumferential grooves into fluid communication with discharge channels present in the radially external surface of a pressing bladder disposed in a radially internal cavity bounded by the green tire.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cured and moulded tyre, comprising, on at least one portion of a radially internal surface of the tyre:
circumferential alignment lines in a rolling direction of the tyre defined by at least one continuous elongated element of elastomeric material wound up into a plurality of coils during building of the tyre;
a plurality of ridges disposed in a reticular structure defining a plurality of cells of irregular closed and contiguous lines; and
a plurality of ribs, wherein each rib extends from a radial internal portion to an axial centered portion of the radially internal surface and one or more of the ridges contact or intersect one or more of the ribs;
wherein the plurality of ridges have smaller sizes than the plurality of ribs,
wherein, “L” represents a half-width in an axial direction of a belt structure associated at a radially external position with a carcass structure, and wherein “H” represents a section height of the cured and moulded tyre, and said circumferential alignment lines extend at least in a cross-section of the cured and moulded tyre from about 90% of “L”, starting from an equatorial plane of the cured and moulded tyre to about 20% of “H”, starting from a radially internal end of the cured and moulded tyre, and
wherein the reticular structure in the section of the cured and moulded tyre extends at least along the radially internal surface thereof, from about 90% of “L” starting from the equatorial plane of the cured and moulded tyre to about 20% of “H”, starting from the radially internal end of the cured and moulded tyre.

2. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the carcass structure comprises at least one carcass ply, comprising ends which are turned up around two respective annular anchoring structures that are mutually spaced apart along the axial direction of the cured and moulded tyre.

3. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said circumferential alignment lines extend at least from one axially external end of a belt structure associated at a radially external position with said carcass structure, to a region of maximum axial bulkiness of a sidewall of a section of the cured and moulded tyre.

4. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said circumferential alignment lines substantially extend over the whole radially internal surface of the cured and moulded tyre.

5. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the cells encloses an area between about 0.5 mm 2 and about 500 mm.

6. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said ridges have a width between about 0.15 mm and about 2 mm.

7. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said ridges have a height between about 0.1 mm and about 1.5 mm.

8. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said ribs have a width between about 0.3 mm and about 4 mm.

9. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said ribs have a height between about 0.5 mm and about 3 mm.

10. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , comprising: a carcass
structure comprising at least one carcass ply, comprising ends which are turned up around two respective annular anchoring structures that are mutually spaced apart along an axial direction of the cured and moulded tyre, wherein said reticular structure extends at least from an axially external end of a belt structure associated at a radially external position with said carcass structure, to a region of maximum axial bulkiness of a sidewall of a section of the cured and moulded tyre.

11. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said reticular structure substantially extends over a whole radially internal surface of the cured and moulded tyre.

12. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said cured and moulded tyre is of a low-section type.

13. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the reticular structure in the section of the cured and moulded tyre extends only along the radially internal surface thereof.

14. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the circumferential grooves have a width ranging from about 0.05 mm to about 2 mm.

15. The cured and moulded tyre as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the circumferential grooves have a dethpth ranging from about 0.05 mm to about 1 mm.

Assignees

• Pirelli

Inventors

• Lo Presti Gaetano
• Mancini Gianni
• Berenguer Albert
• Balini Alfredo

Classifications

• B29D30/0681

  Parts of pneumatic tyres; accessories, auxiliary operations · CPC title

• Y10T152/10495

  Pneumatic tire or inner tube · CPC title

• B60C13/02

  Arrangement of grooves or ribs · CPC title

• B29D30/0662 Primary

  Accessories, details or auxiliary operations · CPC title

• B60C5/00 Primary

  Inflatable pneumatic tyres or inner tubes (B60C1/00, B60C9/00 - B60C17/00 take precedence) · CPC title