Apparatus for supplying sheet materials
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaaki Yoshida, Toru Aihara
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Abstract
This invention provides a method of supplying sheet-like materials in which a plurality of sheet-like materials comprising tire constituent materials and cut into a predetermined size are conveyed by an applying conveyor means and applied onto a building drum. A sheet-like material to be assembled is supplied onto a conveyor belt of the applying conveyor means. Another sheet-like material to assemble, which is held on a transfer drum, is laminated onto the material on the conveyor belt sequentially from one of the end sides thereof to the other with press by rotating and moving the transfer drum. Then a laminate body comprising the sheet-like materials is wound on the building drum.
Claims10
An apparatus for supplying sheet materials which are tire constituent materials to be applied in layers, comprising:
- a building drum:
- an applying conveyor means disposed adjacent to and facing said building drum for applying at least first and second sheet materials to said building drum;
- at least two material feed means for supplying said at least first and second sheet materials onto a conveyor belt of said applying conveyor means, disposed adjacent to said applying conveyor means;
- and
- plural transfer means for transferring said at least first and second sheet materials from said material feed means to said applying conveyor means, disposed between each of said material feed means and said applying conveyor means;
- wherein at least said transfer means for transferring said first sheet material, among said plural transfer means, includes a transfer drum capable of winding each first sheet material on the peripheral surface thereof and retaining it, said transfer drum being disposed rotatably and movably up and down above said material feed means and being capable of reciprocating between said applying conveyor means and said material feed means and in a conveying direction of said applying conveyor means;
- and wherein a sheet material is sequentially pressed and laminated from one of the end sides thereof to a sheet material on said conveyor belt of said conveyor means by rotating and moving said transfer drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.