Process and apparatus for laying rubber materials for tire-constitutional members
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorsShuhei Iizuka, Yuichiro Ogawa
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Abstract
A rubber material for tire-constitutional member is laid on a rotating support at a high efficiency and a high accuracy by arranging a pair of rollers rotating in opposite directions in the vicinity of a radially outer surface portion of the support and utilizing a gap defined between the rollers as a roller die.
Claims9
A process for laying an uncured rubber material for a tire-constitutional member on a rotating support, which comprises driving a pair of rollers located immediately adjacent to a surface of a radially outer portion of the rotating support in opposite directions so as to form a gap defined between the pair of rollers as a roller die, feeding a rubber material having a gauge larger than the gap to the roller die, and laying the rubber material fed though the roller die directly to the rotating support, either one of the pair of rollers guiding the rubber material onto the rotating support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.