Process and plant for building tyres
AssigneePirelli Tyre S.p.A.
InventorsMaurizio MARCHINI, Gianni MANCINI
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Abstract
A plant for building tyres includes a plurality of working locations, at least one first working location being associated with at least two loading/unloading locations, a proximal one and a distal one, each of said working locations and loading/unloading locations being associable with a forming drum. The production cycle is controlled by the method of: (i) loading a first forming drum into the at least one first working location; (ii) loading a second forming drum into the loading/unloading location; (iii) at the end of the working provided in the at least one first working location, unloading the first forming drum into the proximal loading/unloading location.
Claims18
1-38. (canceled)
A plant for building a tyre for vehicle wheels, comprising:
- at least one work station having at least one first working location capable of being associated with a forming drum;
- at least two forming drums;
- and
- at least one intermediate handling device for said forming drums,
- wherein, under steady conditions, a first forming drum is capable of being associated with said first working location, a second forming drum being associated with said intermediate handling device, and at least said first forming drum is capable of being associated with said intermediate handling device before the first forming drum is transferred to an exit location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.