Aligned supply apparatus and aligned supply method for green tires

Abstract

Positional misalignment between a mold and a green tire in a vulcanizer is identified in the PCI step and is fed back in real time to a green-tire supply apparatus so that the misalignment is automatically corrected. During post-cure inflation of a vulcanized tire (T), the RRO value of the tire is measured, and the measured RRO value is compared with a preset reference value. If the measured RRO value exceeds the reference value, a control signal is output to an apparatus for supplying a green tire to a vulcanizer. The green-tire supply apparatus performs positional correction of a green tire with respect to the vulcanizer's mold in accordance with the control signal, that is, performs correction of the position and angle of green-tire gripping means to adjust the concentricity and parallelism of the green tire with respect to the mold.

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