Tire holding device and tire testing system
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Technology Corporation
InventorsMakoto TACHIBANA, Morihiro IMAMURA
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Abstract
A tire holding device includes a guide which is provided between a pair of conveyors in a plan view and is provided on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side of any one of an upper rim and a lower rim in a tire transport direction, and the guide guides a tire so that the center of the tire is coincident with the center of any one of the upper rim and the lower rim in the tire transport direction as the tire approaches any one of the upper rim and the lower rim by means of a lifting device.
Claims9
A tire holding device which interposes and holds a tire between an upper rim and a lower rim from both sides in a vertical direction, in which the tire is transported in a state where the center axis of the tire is directed toward the vertical direction by a pair of conveyors disposed with a gap therebetween, comprising:
- a lifting device which moves the pair of conveyors and any one of the upper rim and the lower rim, and causes the tire transported by the conveyors to approach any one of the upper rim and the lower rim;
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- a guide which is provided between the pair of conveyors in a plan view, is provided on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side of any one of the upper rim and the lower rim in a tire transport direction, and guides the tire so that the center of the tire is coincident with the center of any one of the upper rim and the lower rim in the tire transport direction as the tire approaches any one of the upper rim and the lower rim by means of the lifting device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.