Patent ID: 8299161

Claim:
A vulcanized tire product comprising a rubber composition said tire product selected from the group consisting of a pneumatic tire, a tire tread, a tire subtread, a tire sidewall, a tire body ply skim, a tire bead filler, a hose, and a belt wherein the rubber composition comprises a rubber and an aqueous or dried composition consisting essentially of defatted soy flour and natural rubber, wherein the natural rubber is non-carboxylated and non-sulfonated, wherein the aqueous or dried composition is present in an amount ranging from about 0.05 to about 200 parts, per hundred parts of the rubber, wherein the defatted soy flour present in the aqueous or dried composition ranges from about 0.05 to about 75 parts, per hundred parts of the natural rubber, and wherein the aqueous or dried composition is formed by solvating the defatted soy flour in a natural rubber latex, after which the combination is dried to form a dispersion of defatted soy flour in natural rubber.