Method and plant for building tyres for vehicle wheels
AssigneePirelli Tyre S.p.A.
InventorsMaurizio MARCHINI, Albert BERENGUER
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Abstract
Tyres are processed while simultaneously passing along a building line, each tyre to be subjected to a plurality of processes, each in a respective work station. At least one first and one second tyre reach a work area at different times, stay in the work area simultaneously in respective work stations adapted to perform respective homologous processes on the tyres, and leave the work area at different times. The tyres stay respectively in at least one first work station and at least one second work station, both integrated in the work area. The first tyre passes through the work area without staying in the second work station, and the second tyre passes through the work area without staying in the first work station.
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A method for building a tyre, wherein a plurality of tyres being processed simultaneously pass along a building line, each tyre to be subjected to a plurality of processes, each in a respective work station, wherein along the building line at least one first and one second tyre being processed reach a work area at different times according to an input sequence, stay in the work area, simultaneously in respective work stations adapted to perform respective homologous processes on said tyres being processed, and leave the work area at different times,
- wherein the first and the second tyre being processed stay respectively in at least one first work station and at least one second work station both integrated in the work area;
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- wherein the first tyre passes through the work area without staying in said at least one second work station, and the second tyre passes through the work area without staying in said at least one first work station.
A plant for building tyres, comprising:
- a plurality of work stations distributed in sequence along a building line;
- transfer devices for transferring tyres being processed between subsequent work stations,
- further comprising at least one work area wherein at least one first and at least one second of said work stations perform simultaneously homologous processes with respect to each other, respectively on a first and a second tyre being processed respectively consecutive along the building line, and
- wherein said transfer devices transfer the first and the second tyre through the work area without the first tyre staying in said at least one second work station, and without the second tyre staying in said at least one first work station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.