# US 8,771,446 B2 · Band detaching method in band building drum and band building drum

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- Number: US 8,771,446 B2
- Document ID: US8771446B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 12/301,122
- Filed: 2006-05-19
- Published: 2009-09-17
- Granted: 2014-07-08
- Earliest claimed: 2006-05-19
- Assignees: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Tetsuo Tatara; Tomoyuki Takatsuka
- Inventors: Tetsuo Tatara; Tomoyuki Takatsuka
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8771446B2

## CPC

- B29D 30/24: Drums
- B29D 30/242: {for manufacturing substantially cylindrical tyre components without cores or beads, e.g. treads or belts}
- B29D 30/244: {for manufacturing substantially cylindrical tyre components with cores or beads, e.g. carcasses (mechanisms for folding layers around cores or blads per se B29D30/32)}
- B29D 30/247: {Arrangements for the first stage only, e.g. means for radially expanding the drum to lock the beads (B29D30/245 takes precedence)}
- B29D: PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE (making granules B29B9/00; making preforms B29B11/00)

## Abstract

The invention enables a built band (B) in a cylindrical shape to be easily and surely detached by peeling off the band (B) from being brought into close contact with a drum peripheral face in an expandable and contractable band building drum (D) constituted by two kinds of pluralities of segments (1a)(1b) arranged alternately in a peripheral direction, a diameter of one segment (1a) of two kinds of segments (1a)(1b) is contracted, thereafter, the segment (1a) is temporarily returned to a diameter expanding state, a diameter of other segment (1b) is contracted, thereby, the band (B) is peeled off from being brought into close contact with the drum outer peripheral face, thereafter, the band (B) is detached by bringing both of the segments (1a)(1b) into a diameter contracting state.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A band detaching method in a band building drum, including an expandable and contractable cylindrically shaped band building drum having a plurality of first segments and a plurality of second segments disposed alternately and circumferentially to form the cylindrical shape of the band building drum, the band detaching method comprising the following steps in order:
bringing the respective segments into a diametrically expanded state for the band building to be carried out, and after that then;
building the band around an outer circumferential surface of the expanded segments and after that then;
diametrically contracting the first segments from the diametrically expanded state while holding the second segments in the diametrically expanded state and after that then;
temporarily returning the first segments to the diametrically expanded state while holding the second segments in the diametrically expanded state, and then after that diametrically contracting the second segments from the diametrically expanded state while holding the first segments in the diametrically expanded state, so that the band is peeled off from being in close contact with the outer circumferential surface of the segments; and then after that
detaching the band by bringing both of the first and the second segments into a diametrically contracted state.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The band detaching method in a band building drum according to claim 1, wherein both of the first and second segments are brought into the diametrically contracted state by diametrically contracting the second segments, and thereafter, diametrically contracting the first segments again without diametrically expanding the second segments.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The band detaching method in a band building drum according to claim 2, and further wherein,
the band building drum includes first and second cylinders slideable independently in a drum shaft direction, first and second piston portions respectively fixed to a drum shaft in the first and second cylinders, and further wherein the first and second segments are connected to the first and second cylinders respectively by way of link members, and further wherein
the first and second segments are expanded and contracted respectively by moving each cylinder independently to slide in the drum shaft direction by charging air and discharging air from inner spaces of the first and second cylinders.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The band detaching method in a band building drum according to claim 1, and further wherein,
the band building drum includes first and second cylinders slideable independently in a drum shaft direction, first and second piston portions respectively fixed to a drum shaft in the first and second cylinders, and further wherein the first and second segments are connected to the first and second cylinders respectively by way of link members, and further wherein
the first and second segments are expanded and contracted respectively by moving each cylinder independently to slide in the drum shaft direction by charging air and discharging air from inner spaces of the first and second cylinders.