CANVASED TIRE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME

摘要

A canvased tire for use as a pneumatic tire on a motor vehicle has at least one stretchable piece of canvas made of organic fibers which is disposed in an axial position on an outer surface of a tire and extending fully in a circumferential direction of the tire. The piece of canvas makes durable an outer circumferential surface of the tire on which it is disposed. The canvased tire is manufactured by fitting at least one stretchable ring-shaped piece of canvas over an outer circumferential surface of a green tire in a predetermined axial position thereon, bonding the ring-shaped piece of canvas to the green tire, and thereafter vulcanizing the green tire in the mold of a vulcanizer thereby to produce a canvased tire with the piece of canvas attached thereto.