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AssigneeVmi Holland B.V.
InventorsGerardus Johannes Catharina VAN LAAR, Gerrit Roy NIJLAND, Cornelis-Jan OTTO, Dries VIS
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Disclosed is a tire building apparatus and a method for joining or cutting tire components. The tire building apparatus includes a rocking member that is movable in a rocking plane in a rocking motion along a rocking line, a translation guide extending parallel to the rocking line and a carriage that is displaceable along the translation guide, wherein the rocking member has a convex edge that defines a minor arc of a circle and extends up to a rotation center, wherein the rocking member is supported by the carriage at the rotation center and is angularly displaceable with respect to the carriage about a rotation axis extending through the rotation center.
A tire building apparatus for joining or cutting tire components, wherein the tire building apparatus comprises a rocking member that is movable in a rocking plane in a rocking motion along a rocking line to join or cut tire components, wherein the tire building apparatus comprises a translation guide extending in a translation direction parallel to the rocking line and a carriage that is translationally displaceable in said translation direction along said translation guide, wherein the rocking member comprises a main body that at one end has a convex edge that defines a minor arc of a circle and at the other end extends at least up to a rotation center concentric to said circle, wherein the rocking member is supported by the carriage at the rotation center and is angularly displaceable with respect to said carriage about a rotation axis extending perpendicular to the rocking plane through said rotation center.
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