Vehicle tire loading-unloading device
AssigneeBridgestone/Firestone, Inc.
InventorKarl J. Siegenthaler
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Abstract
A vehicle tire loading-unloading device having a mobile loading-unloading unit designed to enter inside a tire curing unit for receiving a cured tire on an upper supporting unit and, at the same time, releasing into the curing unit a green tire loaded on a suspension unit located beneath and integral with the upper supporting unit; the mobile loading-unloading unit being rotatable for unloading the cured tire.
Claims6
A device for loading-unloading vehicle tires comprising a mobile loading-unloading unit having an upper unit with plate means for supporting a first tire, and a lower unit having means for carrying a second tire;
- fixed supporting means for supporting said mobile loading-unloading unit;
- and activating means for moving said mobile loading-unloading unit through a processing unit and between a loading station, wherein said second tire is loaded, and an unloading station, wherein said first tire is unloaded.
A device as claimed in 2 in which said activating means include guide means extending from said supporting means along a first axis;
- in which slide means is mounted in a sliding manner along said guide means;
- and in which an arm extends along a second axis, and is supported on said slide means so as to turn in relation to said slide means about said first axis, and is connected to said mobile loading-unloading unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.