Patent ID: 8033311

Claim:
A tire comprising a crown surmounted by a tread, a crown reinforcement, two sidewalls and two beads, a carcass reinforcement passing into the two sidewalls and anchored by anchoring means in the two beads, said anchoring means comprising, in at least one bead, a circumferential alignment of at least one anchoring reinforcing member oriented circumferentially and cooperating with a rubber composition referred to as ‘anchoring rubber’, wherein said anchoring reinforcing member is a metal cable having two layers of construction M+N comprising an inner layer C 1 of M wires of diameter d 1 wound together in a helix at a pitch p 1 , this layer C 1 itself being surrounded by an outer layer C 2 of N wires of diameter d 2 wound together in a helix at a pitch p 2 , and wherein said metal cable satisfies the following characteristics where d 1 , d 2 , p 1 and p 2 are expressed in mm: 2≦M≦4 M+3≦N≦M+7 0.25<d 1 <0.40; 0.25<d 2 <0.40; 3.5<p 1 <7<p 2 <14.