Patent ID: 8955567
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: B60C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An air maintenance uncured tire assembly comprising: an uncured tire carcass; a flexible tire component strip forming a portion of the tire carcass, the tire component strip having a channel extending therein defined by opposed lip portions and a channel bottom wall; an air passageway within the flexible tire component formed by a channel within the flexible tire component, the channel extending between an air inlet cavity and an air outlet cavity in the flexible tire component, the channel forming the air passageway extending at least a partial circumferential path around the tire carcass; an elongate passageway-shaping strip assembly occupying and enclosed within the channel of the flexible tire component, the passageway shaping strip assembly operative to form and maintain the channel to a cross-sectional configuration replicating a cross-sectional configuration of the passageway-shaping strip assembly.