The Goodyear tire company remains in the top three tire manufacturing companies in the world. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company manufactures tires for SUVs, cars, airplanes, automobiles, farm equipment, motorcycles, and race cars.
>>>They extracted the latex from the tree The botanic name is Hevea Brasiliensis (Para Rubber Tree). They boiled the latex and made the first rubber ball. Christopher Columbus brought the rubber ball on his second return from South America. In mid-1880 solid rubber tire made their appearance.
>>>The main difference in the designs was that the earlier designs used natural rubber while Herzegh used chloro-butyl rubber. Butyl rubber has greater resistance to air leakage than natural rubber.The traditional tire had a thin walled tube inside the rubber casing called the carcass.
>>>Air-filled car tires was a major step forward in the industry as its shock absorbent levels were very high, though the solid rubber tires were preferred as they were durable. In 1898 Goodyear tire and Rubber Company was founded and was considered the first firm in this industry.
>>>These tires also have taller sidewalls and thicker rubber is used in the sidewalls to enhance the cornering ability of an SUV tire.To increase the traction on a dry surface, SUV tires have squared-off tread blocks allowing the tire to gain more grip.
>>>The basic structure of a pneumatic tire is a tube containing the pressurized air as the core and an outer casing made of fabric strengthened with rubberized fiber cords embedded in the rubber wall. This structure remained unchanged for about the next half a century.
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