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Title: Apparatus and method for assembling a pumping tube into an air maintenance tire sidewall groove

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1771523
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Apparatus and method of assembling an elongate air pumping tube into an elongate tire sidewall groove includes engaging the tire sidewall outward surface with an impact wheel at an impact location proximally adjacent and above the elongate groove as the tire is rotated. The groove is thereby spread segment-by-segment for segment-by-segment synchronous insertion of the tube into the groove. The groove is closed segment-by-segment as each spread segment is returned to its original narrower dimension utilizing elastomeric material composition properties of the tire sidewall.

Research Organization:
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, OH (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
EE0005447
Assignee:
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Akron, OH)
Patent Number(s):
10,807,332
Application Number:
14/489,608
OSTI ID:
1771523
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 09/18/2014
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Tire and wheel rim assemblies patent September 1982
Self-Filling Tire patent April 1915
Tire Changer patent April 1923
Method and apparatus for mounting tires on wheels patent May 1989
Circumferentially Traveling Type Tire Changing Apparatus patent May 1962

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