Patent ID: 8124206

Claim:
A filled sulfur-vulcanizable elastomer composition which comprises: (i) at least one sulfur-vulcanizable elastomer; (ii) at least one particulate filler; and, (iii) a crosslinking effective amount of, as crosslinker for sulfur-vulcanizable elastomer (i), at least one sulfur-containing cycloaliphatic compound of the general formula (1): G[-C a H 2a —S[C(═O)] b R] n (1) wherein G is selected from the group consisting of: saturated, monocyclic aliphatic group of valence n containing from 5 to 12 carbon atoms and optionally containing at least one halogen, and saturated monocyclic silicone group of valence n having the formula: wherein each R independently is a hydrogen or monovalent hydrocarbon of up to 20 carbon atoms; each occurrence of subscripts a and b independently is an integer wherein a is 2 to 6 and b is 1; p is an integer from 0 to 3; and, n is an integer of from 3 to 6.