Patent News.

Method and apparatus for measuring
or controlling friction

U.S. patent: 5,814,718
Issued: September 29, 1998
Inventors: Arild Andresen, Oddvard
Johnsen and Zoltan Rado
Assigned: Norsemeter A.S. Rud

Method of stacking and
compressing tires

U.S. patent: 5,816,142
Issued: October 6, 1998
Inventors: Michael Keller and Gerald
Wheeler

Multiple link tire belt

U.S. patent: 5,817,197
Issued: October 6, 1998
Inventor: Neel Mani
Assigned: Bridgestone/Firestone

Production of rubber articles, such
as gloves

U.S. patent: 5,817,365
Issued: October 6, 1998
Inventors: Margaret Richardson and
Philip Richardson

Dewatering of water-moist
graft rubber

U.S. patent: 5,817,266
Issued: October 6, 1998
Inventors: Norbert Guntherberg, Jurgen
Hofmann, Hilmar Ohlig, Elmar
Mailahn, Jurge a Koch and Andreas
Deckers
Assigned: BASF Aktiengesellschaft

Abherent and printable,
crosslinkable or crosslinked
silicone composition

U.S. patent: 5,817,717
Issued: October 6, 1998
Inventors: Andre Lievre and Christian
Mirou
Assigned: Rhone-Poulenc Chimie,
France

Tire tread with quantitative
silica reinforcement

U.S. patent: 5,817,719
Issued: October 6, 1998
Inventors: David Zanzig, Paul Sandstrom,
John Verthe and Michael
Crawford
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Method and article of manufacture
for reinforcing curved sections of
hollow weather-strip material

U.S. patent: 5,819,472
Issued: October 6, 1998
Inventor: Richard Frost
Assigned: Green Tokai Co.

Steel cord for reinforcing a
rubber product and pneumatic
tire using the same

U.S. patent: 5,819,521
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventor: Kiyoshi Ikehara
Assigned: Bridgestone Corp.

Vehicle tire and rim combination

U.S. patent: 5,820,709
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventor: Toshikazu Matsuda
Assigned: National Tire Co.

Belted tire with specified carcass
ply turn up

U.S. patent: 5,820,710
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventors: Klaus Behnsen, Werner
Knauf and Eckhard Kuhlmann
Assigned: Continental Aktiengesellschaft

Coastal land mass protection and
creation apparatus using discarded
vehicle tires

U.S. patent: 5,820,295
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventor: Leonard J. Bureaux

Pneumatic radial tire including
rubber spacer between axially
adjacent carcass cords

U.S. patent: 5,820,711
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventors: Masayuki Sakamoto,
Yutaka Kuroda and Katsuhito Miura
Assigned: Sumitomo Rubber

Metal tire bead manufacturing
method

U.S. patent: 5,820,717
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventor: Karl Siegenthaler
Assigned: Bridgestone Corp.

Tire vulcanizing system

U.S. patent: 5,820,885
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventor: Nobuhiko Irie
Assigned: Mitsubishi

Apparatus for supplying sheet
materials

U.S. patent: 5,820,726
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventors: Masaaki Yoshida and
Tom Aihara
Assigned: Yokohama Rubber

1. An apparatus for supplying sheet
materials which are tire constituent
materials to be applied in layers.

Pneumatic tire having improved
wear properties

U.S. patent: 5,824,169
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: Samuel Landers, John
Attinellp, James Stroble and Joel Lazeration
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Machine particularly for producing
vulcanized rubber tubes

U.S. patent: 5,820,727
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventor: Andrea Deregibus
Assigned: Tubigomma Deregibus S.r.L

Apparatus for cleaning extruder
head

U.S. patent: 5,724,693
Issued: March 10, 1998
Inventor: Roger Barnett
Assigned: ACD Tridon Inc.

Tire vulcanizing mold assembly

U.S. patent: 5,820,886
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventor: Nobuhiko Irie
Assigned: Mitsubishi, Jukogyo
Kabushiki Kaisha

Silylated rubber diene polymer
containing organosilane

U.S. patent: 5,821,290
Issued: October 13, 1998
Inventor: Gerard Labauze
Assigned: Compagnie Generale des
Establissements Michelin-Michelin &
Cie

Corrosion resistant steel filament

U.S. patent: 5,822,973
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: Yoshikazu Kaneko and
Naohiko Obana
Assigned: Bridgestone Metalpha

Methods of securing splices in
curable rubber articles

U.S. patent: 5,824,383
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: James Tuttle, Frederic Vannan,
Jr., and William Head
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Pneumatic radial tires including a
tire component containing groups of
reinforcing elements

U.S. patent: 5,824,171
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: Toshiya Miyazono, Yoshihide
Kohno, Hiroyuki Koseki and
Yoichi Okamoto
Assigned: Bridgestone

Peroxide and radiation curable
compositions containing
isobutylenene copolymers having
acrylate functionality

U.S. patent: 5,824,717
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: Natalie Merrill, Hsien-Chang
Wang and Anthony Dias
Assigned: Exxon Chemical Patents

Use of labels for the labeling of
rubber parts, in particular tires

U.S. patent: 5,824,397
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: Arne Koops, Laus Kulper,
Ulrich Ofer and Christian Kreft
Assigned: Beiersdorf

Silane-crosslinkable substantially linear
ethylene polymers and their uses

U.S. patent: 5,824,718
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: John Penfold, Morgan
Hughes, Stephen Cree and Jeffrey Brann
Assigned: Dow Chemical

Stain resistant cover composition
for colored rubber part tire and
protective film therefor

U.S. patent: 5,824,723
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: Masashi Yano and Yo
Uchida
Assigned: Bridgestone

Fluorosilicone rubber composition

U.S. patent: 5,824,736
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: Hideki Kobayashi and
Wataru Nishiumi
Assigned: Dow Corning Toray

Light stable aliphatic thermoplastic
urethane elastomers and method of
making same

U.S. patent: 5,824,738
Issued: October 20, 1998
Inventors: William Humphrey and Victor
Gerard
Assigned: Davidson Textron

High pressure hose for refrigerant

U.S. patent: 5,826,623
Issued: October 27, 1998
Inventors: Koji Akiyoshi, Noriaki
Imaeda and Tetsuya Arima
Assigned: Tokai Rubber Industries

Removable pitching rubber

U.S. patent: 5,827,140
Issued: October 27, 1998
Inventor: Ronald Bartoli
Assigned: Schutt Manufacturing

Semiconductive silicone rubber
roller thereof

U.S. patent: 5,827,160
Issued: October 27, 1998
Inventors: Tsuneo Ohki, Shuji Oguchi
and Masahiro Ikeda
Assigned: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co.

Precured tire tread having sealing
projection for a truck tire

U.S. patent: 5,827,380
Issued: October 27, 1998
Inventors: Lawrence Chelbina, Gary
Tubb and Thomas Laurich
Assigned: Goodyear Tire & Rubber