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AssigneeVmi Holland B.V.
InventorsLuuk Van Tienen, Hendrik Jan Grolleman, Anne-Per Joseph Hendrik Van Der Kolk, Clemens Jozef Anton Elferink
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Disclosed is a transport device, an applicator and a method for transporting a tire component in a transport direction. The transport device includes at least three conveyors extending mutually parallel in the transport direction and side-by-side in a lateral direction perpendicular to the transport direction to form a combined conveying surface for conveying the tire component in the transport direction, wherein the at least three conveyors include an intermediate conveyor, a first side conveyor on a first side of the intermediate conveyor in the lateral direction and a second side conveyor on a second side of the intermediate conveyor in the lateral direction, opposite to the first side, wherein the intermediate conveyor, the first side conveyor and the second side conveyor are movable at different speeds with respect to each other in a direction parallel to the transport direction.
A method for applying a tire component to a drum using an applicator, wherein the applicator comprises a transport device for transporting a tire component in a transport direction, wherein the transport device comprises at least three conveyors extending mutually parallel in the transport direction and side-by-side in a lateral direction perpendicular to the transport direction to form a combined conveying surface for simultaneously supporting and conveying the tire component in the transport direction, wherein the at least three conveyors comprise an intermediate conveyor, a first side conveyor on a first side of the intermediate conveyor in the lateral direction and a second side conveyor on a second side of the intermediate conveyor in the lateral direction, opposite to the first side, wherein the intermediate conveyor, the first side conveyor and the second side conveyor are movable at different speeds with respect to each other in a direction parallel to the transport direction, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
A transport device for transporting a tire component in a transport direction, wherein the transport device comprises at least three conveyors extending mutually parallel in the transport direction and side-by-side in a lateral direction perpendicular to the transport direction to form a combined conveying surface for conveying the tire component in the transport direction, wherein the at least three conveyors comprise an intermediate conveyor, a first side conveyor on a first side of the intermediate conveyor in the lateral direction and a second side conveyor on a second side of the intermediate conveyor in the lateral direction, opposite to the first side, wherein the intermediate conveyor, the first side conveyor and the second side conveyor are movable at different speeds with respect to each other in a direction parallel to the transport direction, wherein the first side conveyor, the second side conveyor and the intermediate conveyor each comprise a belt and a first side drive pulley, a second side drive pulley and an intermediate drive pulley, respectively, which are rotatable at different speeds with respect to each other, wherein the first side drive pulley, the second side drive pulley and the intermediate drive pulley are rotatable about a common rotation axis, wherein the transport device further comprises a shaft for carrying the first side drive pulley, the second side drive pulley and the intermediate drive pulley at the common rotation axis, wherein one drive pulley of the first side drive pulley, the second side drive pulley and the intermediate drive pulley is fixed to the shaft to rotate together with said shaft, wherein the other two drive pulleys of the first side drive pulley, the second side drive pulley and the intermediate drive pulley are rotatable with respect to the shaft.
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