Tread strip curing station
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorsMassimo Mangia, Luca Spiri, Renata Erica Morace
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Abstract
A curing station for curing a tread strip, having a flat curing mold; a gripper which grips a portion of the cured tread strip inside the curing mold; an actuating device which, at the end of the curing process, moves the gripper to gradually extract the cured tread strip from the curing mold; and a guide device which, as the cured tread strip is extracted, is positioned over the curing mold, and has a main roller, about which the extracted part of the cured tread strip winds, and a secondary roller smaller in diameter than, and positioned parallel to and alongside, the main roller.
Claims10
A curing station for curing a tread strip, comprising:
- a flat curing mold;
- a gripper which grips a portion of the cured tread strip inside the curing mold;
- an actuating device which, at the end of the curing process, moves the gripper to gradually extract the cured tread strip from the curing mold;
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- a guide device which, as the cured tread strip is extracted, is positioned over the curing mold, and comprises a main roller, about which the extracted part of the cured tread strip winds;
- the curing station being characterized in that the guide device comprises a secondary roller smaller in diameter than, and positioned parallel to and alongside, the main roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.