Tire vulcanizer and tire vulcanizing equipment equipped with the tire vulcanizer
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
InventorHisashi Mitamura
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Abstract
A tire vulcanizer comprising a vulcanizing/molding unit which is provided with a mold removably and which vulcanizes and molds a green tire within the mold into a vulcanized tire, a feed system for feeding the green tire to the vulcanizing/molding unit, and a discharge system for discharging the vulcanized tire from the vulcanizing/molding unit, the feed system and the discharge system being located on a front side of the tire vulcanizer. A vulcanizing line is formed by arranging a plurality of such tire vulcanizers side by side so that the respective one sides lie on the same side. It is possible to complete the mold replacing work in a short and thereby improve the productivity.
Claims11
A tire vulcanizing equipment comprising:
- a tire vulcanizer comprising:
- a vulcanizing/molding unit which is provided with a removable mold and which vulcanizes and molds a green tire within said mold into a vulcanized tire;
- a feed system for feeding the green tire to said vulcanizing/molding unit;
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- a discharge system for discharging the vulcanized tire from said vulcanizing/molding unit,
- said feed system and said discharge system being disposed on a first side of the tire vulcanizer;
- a green tire conveying line comprising a traveling rail laid so as to vertically overlap the feed system of the tire vulcanizer and a green tire conveying device which is disposed so as to be capable of traveling on said traveling rail and which feeds the green tire to said feed system from above;
- a mold conveying line comprising a mold rail disposed on an opposite side from the first side of the tire vulcanizer and a wheeled crane unit which is disposed so as to be capable of traveling on said mold rail and which can load and unload the mold to and from the tire vulcanizer;
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- a rail support member for supporting said green tire rail and said mold rail, said rail support member being mounted to a support frame of the tire vulcanizer,
- wherein a plurality of said tire vulcanizers are disposed so that respective opposite sides are opposed to each other, and said mold conveying line is laid between said tire vulcanizers.
A tire vulcanizing equipment comprising:
- a vulcanizing line comprising a plurality of tire vulcanizers, the tire vulcanizers each comprise:
- a vulcanizing/molding unit which is provided with a removable mold and which vulcanizes and molds a green tire within said mold into a vulcanized tire;
- a feed system for feeding the green tire to said vulcanizing/molding unit;
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- a discharge system for discharging the vulcanized tire from said vulcanizing/molding unit,
- said feed system and said discharge system being disposed on a first side of the tire vulcanizer, and
- said plurality of tire vulcanizers being arranged so that respective first sides lie on a same side;
- a green tire conveying line which is laid on a first side of said vulcanizing line and which feeds the green tire to the feed system of each of said tire vulcanizer;
- a vulcanized tire conveying line which conveys the vulcanized tire from the discharge system of each said tire vulcanizer to a post-process;
- a mold conveying line which is disposed on an opposite side from the first side of said vulcanizing line and which replaces the mold for each of said tire vulcanizers in said vulcanizing line;
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- a vulcanizing station, said vulcanizing station comprising two systems of said vulcanizing lines which are laid so that opposite sides from respective first sides are opposed to each other and one system of said mold conveying line used in common by both said vulcanizing lines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.