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2. Continuous track - Wikipedia

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   Continuous track or tracked treads are a system of vehicle propulsion used in tracked vehicles, running on a continuous band of treads or track plates driven by two or more wheels. The large surface area of the tracks distributes the weight of the vehicle better than steel or rubber tyres on an equivalent vehicle, enabling continuous tracked ...

3. Tire tread - Wikipedia

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   The word tread is often used casually to refer to the pattern of grooves molded into the rubber, but those grooves are correctly called the tread pattern, or simply the pattern. The grooves are not the tread, they are in the tread. This distinction is especially significant in the case of racing slicks, which have much tread but no grooves.

4. Tire manufacturing - Wikipedia

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   Tread compounds include additives to impart wear resistance and traction in addition to environmental resistance. Tread compound development is an exercise in compromise, as hard compounds have long wear characteristics but poor traction whereas soft compounds have good traction but poor wear characteristics.

5. Grouser - Wikipedia

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   Snowmobiles once used cleated tracks, but racing snowmobiles are banned from using cleated track for safety reasons and instead use rubber tracks. [6] Protrusions molded into rubber tractor tire treads are known as lugs, as are cleats for round wheels, [citation needed] which perform a similar function. Unlike metal grousers, these rubber tire ...

6. Siping (rubber) - Wikipedia

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   Zigzag sipes on tire tread. Siping is a process of cutting thin slits across a rubber surface to improve traction in wet or icy conditions. Siping was invented and patented in 1923 under the name of John F. Sipe. [1] [2] The story told on various websites is that, in the 1920s, Sipe worked in a slaughterhouse and grew tired of slipping on the ...

7. Tire - Wikipedia

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   The tread is a thick rubber, or rubber/composite compound formulated to provide an appropriate level of traction that does not wear away too quickly. [71] The tread pattern is characterized by a system of circumferential grooves, lateral sipes, and slots for road tires [26] or a system of lugs and voids for tires designed for soft terrain or ...