Auto skive filling system
AssigneeBridgestone Bandag, LLC
InventorRobert G. OTTING
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Abstract
A system for altering a tire carcass includes a scanner configured to scan a tire carcass, a skiving device configured to skive the tire carcass, a filling device configured to fill skived areas on the tire carcass, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive scanner data from the scanner, identify, based on the scanner data, a first anomaly and a second anomaly on the tire carcass, cause the skiving device to skive the first anomaly to create a first skived area, and cause the filling device to fill the first skived area and cause the skiving device to skive the second anomaly to create a second skived area, wherein the filling and the skiving occur simultaneously.
Claims20
A system for altering a tire carcass, the system comprising:
- a scanner configured to scan a tire carcass;
- a skiving device configured to skive the tire carcass;
- a filling device configured to fill skived areas on the tire carcass;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- receive scanner data from the scanner;
- identify, based on the scanner data, a first anomaly and a second anomaly on the tire carcass;
- cause the skiving device to skive the first anomaly to create a first skived area;
- and
- cause the filling device to fill the first skived area and cause the skiving device to skive the second anomaly to create a second skived area, wherein the filling and the skiving occur simultaneously.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store computer-executable instructions therein that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving scanner data from a scanner configured to scan a tire carcass;
- identifying, based on the scanner data, a first anomaly and a second anomaly on the tire carcass;
- sending an instruction to a skiving device to skive the first anomaly to create a first skived area;
- and
- sending an instruction to a filling device to fill the first skived area and sending an instruction to the skiving device to skive the second anomaly to create a second skived area, wherein the skiving of the second anomaly occurs simultaneously with the filling of the first skived area.
A method of repairing a tire carcass, the method comprising:
- scanning the tire carcass with a scanner;
- identifying, based on scanner data, a plurality of anomalies including a first anomaly and a second anomaly on the tire carcass;
- skiving, with a skiving device, the first anomaly to create a first skived area;
- and
- filling, with a filling device, the first skived area and simultaneously skiving, with the skiving device, the second anomaly to create a second skived area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.