Devices for application to a tire surface for covering a puncture or blowout therein. They may or may not be cemented to the tire or seal the puncture. Where the claims involve a superficial fixing of the tire and do not involve a substantial removal of the material of the tire to permit a rebuilding, this subclass takes method claims except where heat is applied for vulcanization purposes. This subclass includes the combined tire and patch as well as the patch, per se.
(1) Note. For patches and reinforcements around valve stems, see this class, subclass 430.
(3) Note. For patch applying tools, see Class 81, Tools, subclasses 15.5, 15.6 and 15.7.
(4) Note. For other patches, see Class 138, Pipes and Tubular Conduits, subclass 97 and indented subclasses.
(5) Note. Wherein the repair of the casing a substantial part of the casing where it is damaged is removed and by the use of a special patch or otherwise the tire casing built up to the form and semblance of an original casing, see Class 156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, subclasses 94+.
(6) Note. For processes and apparatus for patching a tire by a laminating operation see Class 156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, appropriate subclasses.
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264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, appropriate subclasses for methods of molding or
shaping plastic materials within the class definition and which may include a vulcanization step, especially 36.1+, for processes for repairing or restoring articles for use.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus,
11+, for tire repairing apparatus, including vulcanizing means especially subclasses 17+ for tire recapping, rebeading or sidewall replacing means; and subclasses 28.1+ tire or tire tube reshaping, resizing or vulcanizing means.
520, Synthetic Resins or Natural Rubbers, appropriate subclasses, particularly Class 523,
166, for a composition containing a synthetic resin or natural rubber having utility as a puncture sealant for a pneumatic tire or for use in emergency repair of vehicular tires or to processes of preparing said composition.
