Abstract:
It is a subject to provide a method for manufacturing a tire rubber member and a pneumatic tire using the same capable of improving productivity and of accurately finishing sectional shapes. The method includes: a step of fixedly attaching winding start points 8As, 8Bs of a first rubber strip 8A and a second rubber strip 8B at positions located further inside in a width direction than respective sides e1, e2 of a rubber member R; a first winding step of forming a first layer 10 by spirally winding the first rubber strip 8A towards the one side e1 and the second rubber strip 8B towards the other side e2 up to the respective sides e1, e2; a second winding step of respectively turning the first rubber strip 8A up at the one side e1 and the second rubber strip 8B at the other side e2 so as to successively form a second layer 11 outside of the first layer 10; and a step of fixedly attaching a winding end point 8Af of the first rubber strip and a winding end point 8f of the second rubber strip to positions further inside in the width direction than the respective sides e1, e2.
Abstract:
During procedure such as a tire-recapping procedure, a strip of hot rubber mix of small width and thickness is applied by a collection block to a receiving surface of the tire as the tire is rotated relative to the collecting block. The hot rubber mix is supplied to the collecting block by an extrusion screw. The mix is advanced by the receiving surface through an extrusion orifice which forms the strip. A front surface of the collecting block converges toward an inlet of the extrusion orifice, causing the mix to be pressurized as a function of: the degree of convergence of the front wall and the speed of the receiving surface.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a tyre includes forming a carcass structure, forming a tread band, placing the tyre in a curing mould, and moulding and curing the tyre. The carcass structure includes a crown portion defined between two axially opposed sidewalls that extend radially toward an axis of rotation of the tyre and terminate in a circumferential portion comprising an annular reinforcing structure for mounting the tyre on a rim. The tread band extends circumferentially around the carcass structure and includes a moulded relief pattern. Forming the tread band includes producing a strip of elastomeric material and winding it onto the crown portion. The strip includes an elongated right cross-section that is asymmetrical in a transverse direction. The strip is wound in a plurality of axially consecutive turns until the tread band is formed. At least one turn is at least partly overlapped onto a previously deposited, axially consecutive turn.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a method for making a pneumatic tire comprising providing a pair of circular half body members including the pair of circular half body members with each other by welding their tread base portions to form a tire main body, applying a tread main body including an uncured breaker and an uncured tread to the outer periphery of the tire main body to form a row cover tire; and to vulcanize the row cover tire in a mold to weld the tread main body and the tire main body by the heat at the vulcanization and to form tread grooves.
Abstract:
A tire building method and apparatus applies a length of tred stock to a belt package or to a green tire carcass. The belt package or green tire carcass is mounted to a cylindrical building drum. The tread stock is then loaded outer face down onto an elongated, inclined servicer extending toward the drum. The stock is conveyed downwardly along the servicer to a delivery point located beneath the drum. The servicer is pivotally raised to bring the stock into contact with the materials on the drum, the stock at such point being directed to the drum to contact a lower portion of the drum along a line tangent to the periphery of the drum. During conveying of the stock along the servicer, the stock is retained in a centered position by engaging a groove or ridge formed along the outer side of the stock. Upon arrival of the stock beneath the drum, the drum is rotated, whereby the stock is adhered to the materials thereon and lifted away from the servicer onto the drum.
Abstract:
The tread of a pneumatic tire is bonded to a toroidal shaped radial tire carcass and a reinforcing structure which has discontinuities in its thickness in two planes parallel to the equatorial plane of the tire by a stitching process wherein the annular central portion of the tread while unvulcanized is first rotated against a brush. The lateral portions of the tread which overlie the thickest edge portions of the reinforcing structure are also pressed by rotating brushes commencing while the central portion is being pressed and the annular areas of the tread intermediate the center and lateral areas are pressed with metallic discs. The lateral portions of the tread overlying the thickest parts of the reinforcing structure are then pressed with metallic discs. The process and apparatus having two sets of brushes to achieve the sequence of pressing steps adhere the unvulcanized tread to the underlying structure without air bubbles being trapped therebetween.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the formation of a tire tread profile by the application of rubber tread material upon a tire casing by employing a micro-computer programmer in conjunction with a tread material applicator apparatus. The control system employed during tread formation uses a programmer having a micro-computer unit, a floppy disk and a keyboard, interfaced with a tread material application apparatus.In operation, the programmer is connected to a drive motor of the tire tread application assembly and operates under the control of a tire profile program stored in the floppy disk. Proper tread profile shape is arrived at as a function of the digital ratio between the actual position of the tire rotation and the transverse position of the tire tread applicator assembly. The latter is digitally controlled within the parameters of a preprogrammed set of commands, as a direct and sole function of the position of the tire casing about its spin axis.
Abstract:
A flexible envelope having a central portion overlying a replacement tread strip upon the tire to be retreaded has marginal edge portions overlying bands of cushion gum material upon opposite sidewalls of the tire. During the initial phase of subsequently-ensuing treatment of the aforesaid tire assembly within a heated pressure chamber, the bands of cushion gum material undergo plastic flow and create fluid-tight sealed relationships between the overlying marginal edge portions of the envelope and the underlying tire sidewalls. The bands are removed from the tire sidewalls and envelope after completion of the chamber-treatment of the assembly, and preferably before cooling thereof to ambient room temperature.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for producing an elastomeric extrudate having a constant cross section area. The extrudate is shaped in to a ribbon through a roller die and applied to a tire surface mounted on a rotating spindle. Digital electronic circuitry is employed to provide precise shaft synchronization at a pre-selected rotational velocity ratio between the rotating shafts. The synchronization assures repeatable velocity synchronization between the source of elastomeric material and a take-up device at the axis of rotation of the two components. The elastomeric material is extruded in a manner permitting control over the wrap operation and the amount of elastomeric material employed for a given cycle.
Abstract:
1. In tire building apparatus having tire casing rotating means for rotating a tire casing in its plane, having ribbon applying means for applying an elastomeric ribbon to said casing as its is rotated and having mounting means for one of said rotating and applying means for rotating said one means around an axis substantially parallel to said plane, the combination therewith of second rotating means and programming means for controlling the azimuth position of said one means with respect to said axis, said second rotating means comprising reversible driving means connected to said mounting means for rotating said mounting means and hence, said one means, around said axis, and control means connected to said driving means for controlling the movement thereof, and said programming means comprising a plurality of spaced camming members engageable with said control means for actuating the latter and thereby causing movement of said driving means, moving means connected to at least one of said programming means and control means for producing relative movement in two transverse directions between said control means and said camming members for engaging successive ones of said camming members with said control means and stepping means operable by one of said casing rotating means, said applying means and said tire casing as said ribbon is applied to said casing and connected to said moving means for causing said relative movement as predetermined lengths of said ribbon are applied to said casing.