Method of forming topping sheet and apparatus thereof
AssigneeToyo Tire Corporation
InventorsMasaya Fujimoto, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
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Abstract
A topping sheet forming method includes: a feeding and division step of feeding a textile original fabric, obtained by weaving longitudinally aligned tire cords into a cord fabric by use of weft yarns, and cutting off the weft yarns in predetermined widthwise positions to divide the textile original fabric into a plurality of narrow textile original fabrics; a calender step of topping, with unvulcanized rubber, at least one surface of one narrow textile original fabric out of the divided narrow textile original fabrics; and a wind-up step of winding up the other narrow textile original fabrics out of the divided narrow textile original fabrics.
Claims4
A topping sheet forming method comprising:
- a feeding and division step of feeding a textile original fabric, obtained by weaving longitudinally aligned tire cords into a cord fabric by use of weft yarns, and cutting off the weft yarns in predetermined widthwise positions to divide the textile original fabric into a plurality of narrow textile original fabrics;
- a calender step of topping, with unvulcanized rubber, at least one surface of only one of the divided narrow textile original fabrics;
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- a wind-up step of winding up the other of the divided narrow textile original fabrics without topping with unvulcanized rubber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.