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US 2006/0032576 A1Published application
Radially expansible tire assembly drum and method for forming tires
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsJean-Claude Girard, Andres Delgado
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Abstract
A method of building a tire carcass onto a toroidially expanded building drum core is disclosed which comprises: transferring a breaker and tread package to a mold; loading the tire carcass at diameter D1 into the mold; toroidally expanding the tire carcass to a second diameter D2 wherein the tire carcass and the breaker and tread package form an uncured tire assembly; curing the uncured tire assembly to form a cured tire in the mold; and removing the cured tire from the mold.
Claims5
A method of building a tire, the method comprising:
- transferring a breaker and tread package to a mold loading the tire carcass at diameter D1 into the mold;
- toroidally expanding the tire carcass to at least substantially diameter D2 wherein the tire carcass and the breaker and tread package form an uncured tire assembly;
- curing the uncured tire assembly to form a cured tire in the mold;
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- removing the cured tire from the mold.
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