Process and plant for building tyres for vehicle wheels
AssigneePirelli Tyre S.p.A.
InventorsMaurizio Marchini, Sergio Sacchi
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Abstract
A plant for building tyres for vehicle wheels, includes a sleeve building area in which devices for obtaining carcass sleeves operate, a crown building area in which devices for obtaining crown structures operate and a shaping station for shaping each carcass sleeve according to a toroidal configuration. Transfer devices for transferring the carcass sleeves from the sleeve building area to the shaping station, by a first translator configured for picking up each carcass sleeve from an outlet station of the sleeve building area, a second translator configured for releasing each carcass sleeve in the shaping station, and a storage device operatively interposed between said first translator and second translator.
Claims16
A process for building tyres for vehicle wheels,
- comprising:
- transferring carcass sleeves obtained in a sleeve building area to a shaping station, wherein each carcass sleeve is shaped according to a toroidal configuration in order to be associated with a respective crown structure obtained in a crown building area, and
- wherein transferring comprises:
- transiting carcass sleeves through a storage device configured to receive a plurality of the carcass sleeves,
- wherein each carcass sleeve is picked-up from the sleeve building area before being carried to the shaping station, and the storage device comprises a load station, a pick-up station, one or more support elements, and a tower defining the rotation center (Y) along a vertical axis, with the load station and the pick-up station angled from one another around the rotation center (Y),
- wherein each carcass sleeve is engaged with the storage device by inserting at least one of the one or more support elements in the carcass sleeve.
A process for building tyres for vehicle wheels, comprising:
- transferring carcass sleeves obtained in a sleeve building area to a shaping station,
- wherein each carcass sleeve is shaped according to a toroidal configuration in order to be associated with a respective crown structure obtained in a crown building area,
- wherein each carcass sleeve picked up from the sleeve building area, before being carried to the shaping station, transits through a storage device configured to receive a plurality of said carcass sleeves,
- wherein the storage device comprises a load station, a pick-up station, one or more support elements, and a tower defining a rotation center (Y) along a vertical axis, the load station and the pick-up station are angled from one another around the rotation center, and each carcass sleeve is engaged with the storage device by inserting at least one of the one or more support elements into the carcass sleeve;
- wherein each carcass sleeve picked up from the sleeve building area is moved toward the storage device along a first transfer path lying in a vertical plane;
- and
- wherein each carcass sleeve picked up from the sleeve building area, before moving along the first transfer path, is translated from an outlet station to an alignment position respectively offset along a direction orthogonal to the lying plane of the first transfer path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.