Claims
- 1. A pneumatic tire having an outer circumferential tread where said tread is a sulfur cured rubber composition comprised of, based on 100 parts by weight of rubber, (a) from about 5 parts to about 55 parts of styrene-isoprene rubber made by a process which comprises copolymerizing a monomer mixture containing from about 2 weight percent to about 15 weight percent styrene monomer and from about 85 weight percent to about 98 weight percent isoprene monomer in an organic solvent in the presence of a catalyst system which is comprised of (a) a lithium initiator and (b) a modifier having the structural formula: ##STR5## wherein n represents an integer within the range of 3 to 6, wherein R represents an alkyl group containing from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms, and wherein the molar ratio of the modifier to the lithium initiator is within the range of 2:1 to 40:1, (b) from about 10 parts to about 40 parts of natural rubber, (c) from about 15 parts to about 40 parts of styrenebutadiene rubber, (d) front about 20 parts to about 35 parts of high cis-1,4polybutadiene rubber, (e) from about 30 to about 80 parts of carbon black, and (f) from about 10 to about 20 parts of silica.
- 2. A pneumatic tire as specified in claim 1 wherein the styrene-isoprene rubber contains from about 90 weight percent to about 97 weight percent isoprene and from about 3 weight percent to about 10 weight percent styrene.
- 3. A pneumatic tire as specified in claim 1 wherein the styrene-isoprene robber contains from about 93 weight percent to about 96 weight percent isoprene and from about 4 weight percent to about 7 weight percent styrene.
Parent Case Info
This patent application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/300,907, filed on Sep. 6, 1994, issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,470,929, which is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/037,835, filed on Mar. 29, 1993 (now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,359,016).
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