Device for transferring tire carcasses from a tire building-up station to a forming station
AssigneeContinental Gummi-Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorFriedrich Klopper
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Abstract
A device for transferring a tire carcass having a substantially cylindrical outer surface and provided with core rings, from a tire building-up station to a forming station. This transfer is effected by means of an annular holder composed of segments and provided with suction cups adapted to be placed onto the outer substantially cylindrical surface of the carcass to be transferred for supporting the carcass. The holder is variable in diameter and is supported by a carrier which is movable from the tire building-up station to the forming station. The holder has curved segmental supporting elements for supporting at least one end portion of a carcass engaged and carried by the suction cups which are selectively connectable to a vacuum creating device.
Claims10
A device for transferring a tire carcass having a substantially cylindrical outer surface and provided with bead core rings from a tire building-up station to a shape forming station, the improvement in combination therewith which includes:
- annular holding means composed of segments and provided with suction cups adapted to be placed onto the outer substantially cylindrical surface of the carcass to be transferred for supporting said carcass, said holding means being variable in diameter and including supporting elements for the bead core rings of a carcass, carrier means carrying said holding means and operable to transfer said holding means from said tire building-up station to said shape forming station, and curved segmental supporting means supported by said holding means for supporting at least one end portion of a carcass to be carried by said suction cup equipped holding means, said supporting elements for the bead core rings being formed by plier-shaped clamping jaws distributed uniformily over periphery of said holding means as well as abutment jaws provided therewith for supporting the bead core rings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.