Patent ID: 7762296

Claim:
An industrial tire for field and road use comprising: a contact surface having a plurality of interleaved continuous lugs with grooves therebetween, the lugs being continuously curved and the grooves being free of breaks and obstructions therealong; the lugs each extending axially from a first sidewall to a respective location inset from a second sidewall and adjacent lugs extending from the second sidewall to a respective location inset from the first sidewall; and wherein a solid-to-void ratio of the contact surface is in a range of approximately 1.25:1 to 2.25:1, each of the lugs extends between approximately 85 and 92 percent of an overall axial width of the contact surface, and each of the grooves defines a circumferential width that is between approximately 20% and 30% of an average circumferential width of each of the lugs.