US PATENT SUBCLASS 156 / 110.1
.~.~ Making flexible or resilient toroidal shape; e.g., tire, inner tube, etc.

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156 /   HD   ADHESIVE BONDING AND MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL MANUFACTURE

1  DF  METHODS {7}
60  DF  .~ Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor {93}
110.1.~.~ Making flexible or resilient toroidal shape; e.g., tire, inner tube, etc. {9}
111  DF  .~.~.~> Moving work progressively to separate assembly stations
112  DF  .~.~.~> Solid tire type (i.e., nonpneumatic) {1}
114  DF  .~.~.~> Incorporation of solid nonrubber material at exposed tread surface of tire (e.g., anti-skid)
115  DF  .~.~.~> Applying flowable puncture sealing material
116  DF  .~.~.~> Applying differently colored material at sidewall (e.g., white wall)
117  DF  .~.~.~> Building tires directly from strands or cords
118  DF  .~.~.~> Tubular (airtight) torus (e.g., auto tube-making) {4}
123  DF  .~.~.~> Of plural layers {6}
135  DF  .~.~.~> Bead portion of carcass treatment

DEFINITION

Classification: 156/110.1

Making flexible or resilient toroidal shape; e.g., tire, inner tube, etc.:

(under subclass 60) Process for the manufacture of resilient or flexible ring-like body which body is uniquely adapted to be resilient without distortion from its general toroidal shape.

(1) Note. The majority of the art in this subclass relates to processes for making vehicle tires and innertubes, but the subclasses are not so limited. The manufacture of other similar structures by adhesive bonding, e.g., an "O-ring" gasket, may be found here if toroidal in shape and resilient.

(2) Note. As a corollary to the above, a process for adhering rubber or rubber-like materials, where achieving a toroidal shape plays no part in the process, is excluded from this and indented subclasses.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

64, for a tire-making process which involves testing, measuring or inspecting.

95+, for a process for repairing an object which has a toroidal shape.

136, for tire bead-ring making by a process of this class. 307.1, for a method of adhering together rubber materials through vulcanization, where the method is not restricted to materials having a toroidal shape.

394+, for tire building apparatus.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, appropriate subclasses especially

54, and 63 for methods of stretching endless bands for use in tires when not claimed in combination with an assembly step.

28, Textiles: Manufacturing,

165+, for treatment, e.g., shrinking, of a thread-interlaced article of fabric.

29, Metal Working,

22, for a tire upsetting, cutting, punching, etc.., process or apparatus; subclass 159.1 for a tire manufacturing process which does not include a step of adhesive bonding, molding, vulcanizing, etc. and subclass 426.1 for a disassembly

process.

73, Measuring and Testing,

863+, for a method of preparing a sample of a tire component for a test. 141, Fluent Material Handling, With Receiver or Receiver Coacting Means, appropriate subclasses, for filling tires with a liquid which does not undergo a chemical reaction or a change in physical state.

152, Resilient Tires and Wheels, appropriate subclasses for resilient tires and see especially the notes in the class definition of that class (152) for the locus of other art relating to tire structures and production.

260, Chemistry of Carbon Compounds,

709+, for a rubber composition.

264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article shaping or Treating: Processes, for making tires by molding when no adhesive bonding of self-sustaining laminae is involved. See particularly

501+, for tire making by direct pressure application, subclass 45.1 composite article making employing a porous component and subclasses 267+ for composite article making against the inner surface of a hollow body. Subclasses 315 and 326 therein are pertinent to employing toroidal mold bags and producing toroidal bodies, respectively.