Device for transferring a tire carcass band
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorJean M. Dupommier
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Abstract
A device for transferring an uncured tire carcass of cylindrical shape and comprising a cylindrical housing, a plurality of suction cups disposed in at least three circular bands around the housing, said bands being located one at each end portion and one in a mid-portion of the housing and each cup is connected to an actuator for radial movement and is also connectable to a vacuum source. Also, a plurality of tire bead retaining means are located in two circular bands at the desired axial bead locations, each band having at least three retaining means equiangularly spaced therein, each retaining means being connected to an actuator for radial movement for retention or release of the bead. The bead retaining means hold the bead, concentric with, and radially spaced from the outer surface of the carcass.
Claims21
A transfer device for transferring an uncured tire carcass of a substantially cylindrical shape from a carcass building station to a tire building station and comprising:
- a hollow housing for receiving a tire carcass,
- a first means attached to the housing to provide support for the outer cylindrical surface of the carcass, said first means supporting the carcass at least at each end portion and a mid portion thereof and around substantially the whole outer cylindrical surface at said portions, and
- a second means attached to the housing and moveable solely in the radial direction with respect to the housing to hold at least one tire bead independently of and spaced radially outward from the carcass so that the carcass and tire bead so positioned can be simultaneously transferred from the carcass building station to the tire building station.
A transfer device for transferring an uncured tire carcass of a substantially cylindrical shape from a carcass building station to a tire building station and comprising:
- a hollow cylindrical housing for receiving a carcass comprising a circular support frame, at least 3 struts equiangularly spaced around the support frame and each extending axially on each side of the support frame, and two circular end plates located on each side of the support frame to hold the ends of the struts in a circular way;
- a first means for supporting the outer cylindrical surface of a carcass including frames attached to the housing;
- a pair of second means, each of which holds a tire bead coaxially with and radially outward of a carcass supported within the housing;
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- a support for each of said second means, said supports being adjustably mounted on the housing so that the axial location of each of the tire beads can be altered, said supports for the second means being slideably mounted on the struts and said first means frames also being slideably mounted on the struts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.