Patent ID: 8376010

Claim:
A tire for a heavy vehicle with a radial carcass reinforcement of a width in excess of 25 inches comprising a crown reinforcement radially inserted between the carcass reinforcement and the tread, said crown reinforcement being made up of at least one working crown reinforcement made up of at least one layer of reinforcing elements oriented substantially circumferentially, radially surmounted by at least two so-called working layers, the reinforcing elements of which make an angle of between 15 and 70° with the circumferential direction, are mutually parallel within each layer and are crossed from one layer to the next, said two working layers being axially wider than the layer of substantially circumferentially oriented reinforcing elements, wherein each of said working layers comprises two axially separated parts, wherein the distance between an axially inner end of each of axially outer parts of at least the radially innermost working layer and an end of the radially outermost layer of substantially circumferentially oriented reinforcing elements is less than 45 mm and wherein the gap, in the axial direction, between two parts of each of the working crown layers is greater than 5 mm.