Tire molding mold
AssigneesBridgestone Corporation, Institute of Technology Precision Electrical Discharge Works
InventorsYasutada Yoda, Seisuke Sueyasu, Shoji Futamura
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Abstract
A tire molding mold comprising a profile ring having an inner circumferenl surface corresponding to the outer profile of a tire being molded, including at least the tread surface thereof, and a net ring having a faying surface fitted and joined to the inner circumferential surface of the profile ring and consisting of a network of ribs and/or lugs for forming the grooves of the tire being molded; the net ring being disposed on the profile ring wholly, or with the part thereof removed.
Claims7
A tire molding mold comprising;
- a profiled ring having an inner circumferential surface corresponding to the outer profile of a tire being molded, including at least the tread surface thereof, wherein an outer profile of a tire being molded is molded at said inner circumferential surface;
- and a net ring having a faying surface for making contact with said inner circumferential surface of said profile ring, said net ring comprising of a network of ribs and/or lugs for forming the grooves of said tire being molded;
- wherein said net ring is wholly, or with the part thereof removed, disposed on said profile ring, and is devoid of any surface corresponding to the outer profile of a tire being molded.
A tire molding mold comprising a profile ring having an inner circumferential surface corresponding to the outer profile of a tire being molded, including at least the tread surface thereof, and a net ring having a faying surface for making contact with said inner circumferential surface of said profile ringe and consisting of a network of ribs and/or lugs for forming the grooves of said tire being molded;
- wherein said net ring is wholly, or with the part thereof removed, disposed on said profile ring, wherein said profile ring has through holes thereon and blades which are inserted into said through holes and bonded to said profile ring on the rear side of said profile ring.
A tire molding mold comprising a profile ring having an iner circumferential surface corresponding to the outer profile of a tire being molded, including at least the tread surface thereof, and a net ring having a faying surface for making contact with said inner circumferential surface of said profile ringe and consisting of a network of ribs and/or lugs for forming the grooves of said tire being molded;
- wherein said net ring is wholly, or with the part thereof removed, disposed on said profile ring, wherein at least a part of said lugs have lug projections protruding beyond the faying surface thereof, and said profile ring had through holes or recesses corresponding to said lug projections;
- and said net ring is disposed on said profile ring after said lug projections are inserted into said through holes or recesses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.