US 2019/0070812 A1 · METHOD OF BUILDING A TIRE

Method of building a tire

OwnerGeorge Michael STOILA, Michael James HOGAN +8inventors

InventorsGeorge Michael STOILA, Michael James HOGAN, Frank Anthony KMIECIK, Minwu YAO, Mark John MONTGOMERY, Kristian Daniel JOHNSON, John Edward ANDERSON, Richard David VARGO, Pablo Rafael MORALES, Andrew Robert ONDO

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Abstract

A method of building a tire on a second stage tire building drum is disclosed. The method employs the steps of mounting a green cylindrically shaped tire carcass onto a tire building drum so that each bead are seated in a respective bead pocket segment, inflating the carcass under low pressure and expanding the carcass into engagement with tread and belt assembly while allowing the one or more of the hubs or one or more of the bead pocket segments to freely slide in the axial direction.

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Dependent claims

A method of forming a tire on a tire building drum from a green tire carcass, the method comprising the steps of:

applying the green tire carcass onto the tire building drum by placing a first and second bead onto a first and second bead receiving member of the tire building drum, wherein no bead locking force is utilized;
inflating the carcass into engagement with a belt and tread package while at least one of the beads is free to move axially inward.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.