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AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsWilliam Dudley Currie, Dennis Alan Lundell, David Alan Henthorne, Mary Beth Dombrosky
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Apparatus and method for disassembling, assembling and using a toroidally shaped segmented core configured to carry a tire during a curing process includes: a transport mechanism operatively moving the segmented core between a plurality of stations in a tire curing line; one or more segment removal devices for removing a plurality of core segments individually from a cured tire and from around a core central axis and placing the core segments individually in respective spaced apart storage locations; and one or more core segment assembly devices for removing the core segments individually from the storage locations and placing the core segments individually in respective core locations to form an assembled segmented core. The apparatus and method operatively sequences to place and remove differently structured core segments individually into and from the assembled core configuration.
Apparatus for disassembling, assembling and using a toroidally shaped segmented core configured to carry a tire during a curing process, the core including a plurality of core segments extending generally radially from a central axis, the apparatus comprising:
A method for disassembling, assembling and using a toroidally shaped segmented core configured to carry a tire during a curing process, the core including a plurality of core segments extending generally radially from a central axis, the method comprising:
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