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US 4,197,155 AGranted
Tire building drum having three orthogonally oriented tire building drums
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorDonald E. Hursell, Sr.
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AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorDonald E. Hursell, Sr.
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Tire building apparatus for building complete uncured tires includes a triad of orthogonally oriented tire building drums mounted on a turret rotatable about an axis inclined at an angle of between 35 and 36 degrees with respect to a horizontal plane. Each of the drums occupies successively two tire fabricating stations wherein the respective drums are oriented horizontally and a third station wherein the building drums successively occupying such third station are oriented vertically and from which completed tires fabricated in the apparatus can be removed vertically and at an elevation above the two fabricating stations so as to eliminate completely interference between the movements of tire building material coming to the machine and of the completed tires removed from the machine. The foregoing abstract is not to be taken as limiting the invention of this application, and in order to understand the full nature and extent of the technical disclosure of this application, reference must be made to the accompanying drawing and the following detailed description.
A tire building apparatus comprising turret means mounted for rotation about an inclined axis which axis is oriented at an angle of between 35 and 36 degrees with respect to a horizontal plane;
A tire building apparatus comprising a first and a second tire fabricating station and a third station;
A tire building apparatus having a first station wherein a carcass band is built on building drum means, a second station wherein said carcass band is shaped to toroidal form on said drum means, and a third station whereat said carcass band in toroidal form is removed from said drum means, said apparatus comprising a triad of building drum means respectively rotatable about orthogonally arranged drum axes, and turret means having bearing means respectively mounting each said drum means, said turret means being rotatable about an inclined axis in a vertical plane oriented at 45 degrees with respect to said first and said second station and between 35 and 36 degrees with respect to said horizontal plane, and indexing means for intermittently indexing said turret means to position each said drum means successively in said third station whereat its axis is oriented vertically.
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