Process and plant for building tyres
AssigneePrielli Tyre S.p.A.
InventorsMaurizo 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.
Claims15
1-38. (canceled)
A process for building a tyre comprising using a plurality of forming drums, each capable of carrying a tyre being processed and at least one work station capable of carrying out at least one respective process working on the tyre being processed,
- wherein transfer of at least one first and one second forming drum close to said at least one work station comprises:
- picking up the second forming drum from an entry location, which drum is to be submitted to one of said process workings in a first working location being part of the work station;
- picking up the first forming drum from the first working location, which drum has been submitted to said process working in the first working location;
- engaging the second forming drum in the first working location;
- and
- transferring the first forming drum to an exit location,
- wherein at least one of said second forming drum and first forming drum is transferred to an intermediate transfer location before being engaged in the first working location or transferred to the exit location, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.