Tire vulcanizer system and assembly method therefor
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Technology Corporation
InventorsKeiichi TOMOTO, Jiro AGAWA
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Abstract
A tire vulcanizer system in which multiple tire vulcanizers, provided with a frame and a vulcanizing mechanism that is supported by the frame and is for vulcanizing green tires, are connected, wherein the tire vulcanizers are provided with respective alignment sections, which are provided on the respective frames and are for aligning the level positions of adjacent frames relative to each other.
Claims10
A tire vulcanizer system obtained by coupling a plurality of tire vulcanizers each including a frame and a vulcanizing mechanism supported by the frame to vulcanize a green tire,
- wherein the tire vulcanizer includes:
- a positioning unit that is provided in each of the frames and determines relative planar positions of the frames adjacent to each other.
An assembly method for a tire vulcanizer system obtained by coupling a plurality of tire vulcanizers each including a frame and a vulcanizing mechanism supported by the frame to vulcanize a green tire, the method comprising:
- a temporary assembling step of adjusting the positions of the frames adjacent to each other and temporarily coupling the frames together;
- a positioning body attaching step of attaching positioning bodies for positioning to the temporarily coupled frames, respectively;
- a decoupling step of releasing the coupling between the frames with the positioning bodies attached thereto;
- and
- a main assembling step of respectively attaching the frames between which the coupling has been released to installation locations such that the relative positions of the frames are constrained by the positioning bodies.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.