This invention relates to a retreadable tire which contains a non-black
colored rubber carcass
cushion layer sandwiched between its tire
tread and tire casing. The non-black
colored rubber carcass
cushion layer acts both as an
adhesive and
transition layer for adhering a cured or uncured tire
tread to the cured tire carcass. Such carcass
cushion layer also acts as a detectable color indictor for indexing and monitoring a complete removal (e.g. by buffing, abrading, or
cutting) of the circumferential rubber tire
tread and partial removal of the carcass cushion layer without removing the entire carcass cushion layer. The invention also relates to a method of retreading a cured rubber tire carcass by completely removing a circumferential,
carbon black reinforced (and therefor a black
colored) tire rubber tread together with a partial removal of the contrastingly colored cured rubber carcass cushion layer to a depth indexed and / or determined by an automated rubber cushion layer color sensing means, or apparatus, followed by applying a non-black colored uncured circumferential rubber carcass cushion layer and
carbon black reinforced (therefore black colored) tire tread thereon to form an
assembly thereof and vulcanizing the
assembly in a suitable mold to form a
retread tire.