Tire mounting and demounting machine, tire mounting method and tire demounting method

A tire mounting and demounting machine, comprising:

• a turntable that holds a lower rim portion of a wheel in a detachable state and rotates the wheel about a vertical rotation axial line;
• a bead guiding member that guides lower and upper bead portions of a tire to fit the lower bead portion or the upper bead portion to an upper rim portion of the wheel and also guides the upper bead portion of the tire, which is fitted to the upper rim portion of the wheel, to be demounted from the upper rim portion;
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• a demount roller that presses the tire of which the upper bead portion is fitted to wheel upward from below.

A tire mounting method, comprising:

• fixing a wheel to a turntable;
• loading a tire on the wheel;
• fitting a lower bead portion of the tire to the wheel while rotating the turntable about a rotation axial line thereof, in a state where the lower bead portion of the tire is locked by a bead guiding member disposed at a predetermined location;
• positioning an upper bead portion of the tire at a drop portion of the wheel;
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• locking the upper bead portion of the tire to the bead guiding member and pressing the upper bead portion of the tire mounted to the wheel from above by a part of a pressing surface of a bead roller, the pressing surface being like a circumference of a truncated cone whose diameter is decreased the further it goes away from the rotation axial line, and the bead roller being disposed at a location in a vicinity of the bead guiding member on a downstream side from the bead guiding member in a rotating direction of the turntable.

A tire mounting method, comprising:

• fixing a wheel to a turntable;
• loading a tire on the wheel;
• fitting a lower bead portion of the tire to the wheel while rotating the turntable about a rotation axial line thereof, in a state where the lower bead portion of the tire is locked by a bead guiding member disposed at a predetermined location;
• positioning an upper bead portion of the tire at a drop portion of the wheel;
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• inserting the upper bead portion of the tire into the wheel by locking the upper bead portion of the tire to the bead guiding member and rotating the turntable in a state where an upper sidewall portion of the tire is pressed by a bead roller having a pressing surface of an annular shape extending in a direction going away from the rotation axial line and being disposed in a vicinity of the bead guiding member on a downstream side from the bead guiding member in a rotating direction of the turntable to be rotatable about an axial line in an imaginary plane including the rotation axial line of the turntable.

A tire mounting method, comprising:

• fixing a wheel to a turntable;
• loading a tire on the wheel;
• fitting a lower bead portion of the tire to the wheel while rotating the turntable about a rotation axial line thereof, in a state where the lower bead portion of the tire is locked by a bead guiding member disposed at a predetermined location;
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• inserting the upper bead portion of the tire into the wheel by means of a bead roller having a pressing surface extending in a direction going away from the rotation axial line, by rotating the turntable in a state where the upper bead portion of the tire mounted to the wheel is pressed from above by the pressing surface at a location on a downstream side from the bead guiding member in a rotating direction of the turntable by a predetermined angle with respect to the location of the bead guiding member.

A tire demounting method, comprising:

• fixing a wheel to which a tire is mounted to a turntable;
• demounting the turntable from the wheel while rotating in a state where an upper bead portion of the tire is locked to a bead guiding member;
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• rotating the turntable in a state where the tire of which the upper bead portion is demounted from the wheel is pressed upward from below by a demount roller disposed in a vicinity of the bead guiding member on a downstream side from the bead guiding member in a rotating direction of the turntable to demount a lower bead portion from an upper rim portion of the wheel.