Patent ID: 8156978

Claim:
A tire assembly comprising: a tire body having a tire cavity between first and second sidewalls that extend respectively from a pair of annular tire core bead cores to a tire tread region, the tire body constructed from a pre-cure green tire carcass formed into a cured a post-cure finished tire body form; an air passageway body within the tire body and extending between an outward facing tire body surface and the tire cavity, the air passageway body having an enclosed air passageway extending between a hollow body outlet end facing the tire cavity and a hollow inlet end facing outward from the outward facing tire body surface; at least one tapping device affixed over at least one of the ends of the air passageway body, the at least one device having an external vent opening and a protrusion member penetrating through a sidewall of the air passageway body to operatively establish an air flow path extending between the air passageway of the air passageway body through the protrusion member and the tapping device vent opening.