Patent ID: 8647455

Claim:
A process of manufacturing a pneumatic tire, including: covering a making drum with a cylindrical thermoplastic resin film; winding an uncured rubber sheet member as a tie rubber around the thermoplastic resin film, wherein the uncured rubber sheet member is made of a composition that includes carbon black; and winding a carcass layer around the rubber sheet member, wherein the rubber sheet member is wound in the circumferential direction of the tire at least twice, such that the lowest layer of the rubber sheet member is in contact with the thermoplastic resin film and an upper layer of the rubber sheet member is wound around the full width of a lower layer of the rubber sheet member without displacing the position of the upper layer with respect to the width direction of the pneumatic tire, wherein the thickness of the rubber sheet member is 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm, and wherein the total thickness of the multiple wound rubber sheet member is 0.4 mm to 5.0 mm.