rubber tire


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Noun1.rubber tire - a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheelrubber tire - a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel
retread, recap - a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads
tire, tyre - hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"
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In a week or ten days Raffles was to write to me at the Richmond post-office, but for at least a week I should be "on my own." It was not an unpleasant sensation as I leant back in the comfortable hansom, and rather to one side, in order to have a good look at myself in the bevelled mirror that is almost as great an improvement in these vehicles as the rubber tires. Really I was not an ill-looking youth, if one may call one's self such at the age of thirty.
The tire monitoring system utilizes a heat sensor embedded in a solid rubber tire. The heat sensor detects a temperature of the solid tire, and a transmission system transmits signals indicative of the temperature from the heat sensor to a remote monitoring system.
Co., Nankang Rubber Tire Corp., and Federal Corp., with the latter three of which expected to see gross profit margin grow in the second half due to capacity expansion, asset development, new managers, and price decline in natural rubber.
The base of the pyramidal absorber was made of a combination of rice husks are added to rubber tire dust (carbon black); polyester was used as a bonding agent, and methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP) was used as a hardener agent.
Above, Matty Daigle, 3, of Winchendon helps Fitchburg DPW Foreman Craig Leger pick up a tire with a rubber tire excavator.
Early traction testing for treaded tires with the bio-additive shows them performing on par with existing rubber tire technology in wet and hot conditions, according to the OSU material scientists.
When Jones and his crews started work on the job site at the beginning of September, they chose their rubber tire unit to plow the 2-inch conduit 36 inches deep.
Benninger: Additional testing by independent test laboratories has shown that the rolling resistance of the polyurethane Arcus tire is from 36% to 50% less than an equivalent rubber tire depending on the load and air pressure.
* Energy: Producing one polyurethane tire requires only four percent of the energy used to make a rubber tire. With energy costs rising, significant savings can be passed on to consumers.
A settlement with ARCO Terminal Services Corporation for air pollution violations at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., required the company to use control equipment during all ship loadings at its Long Beach piers to control diesel exhaust from cargo handling equipment, such as fork lifts, rubber tire gantry cranes, and trucks; and pay a $225,000 fine.
We present here a case involving use of crumb rubber tire as a surface amendment on playgrounds as a model case where the published literature did not contain the needed answers.