Tire vulcanizer system and assembly method therefor
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Technology Corporation
InventorsKeiichi Tomoto, Jiro Agawa
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Abstract
A tire vulcanizer system in which multiple tire vulcanizers, provided with a frame and a vulcanizing mechanism that is supported by the frame and is for vulcanizing green tires, are connected, wherein the tire vulcanizers are provided with respective alignment sections, which are provided on the respective frames and are for aligning the level positions of adjacent frames relative to each other.
Claims9
A tire vulcanizer system obtained by coupling a plurality of tire vulcanizers each including a frame and a vulcanizing mechanism supported by the frame to vulcanize a green tire,
- wherein the plurality of tire vulcanizers include:
- a positioning unit that is provided in a leg unit that is provided to each of the frames and is arranged to determine relative planar positions of the frames adjacent to each other,
- wherein the tire vulcanizer system includes at least one of a carrying-in unit that is arranged to carry in a non-vulcanized green tire to the tire vulcanizers, and a carrying-out unit that is arranged to carry out a vulcanized tire, and
- wherein the at least one of the carrying-in unit and the carrying-out unit includes a guide rail that extends in the upward-downward direction and is coupled to the respective frames so as to stretch over the frames as a fixing part that performs positioning of the frames.
An assembly method for a tire vulcanizer system obtained by coupling a plurality of tire vulcanizers each including a frame provided with a leg unit and a vulcanizing mechanism supported by the frame to vulcanize a green tire, the method comprising:
- a temporary assembling step of adjusting the positions of the frames adjacent to each other and temporarily coupling the frames together;
- a positioning body attaching step of attaching positioning bodies for positioning to the leg units of the temporarily coupled frames, respectively;
- a decoupling step of releasing the coupling between the frames with the positioning bodies attached thereto;
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- a main assembling step of respectively attaching the frames between which the coupling has been released to installation locations such that the relative positions of the frames are constrained by the positioning bodies, and such that a guide rail of at least one of a carrying-in unit that is arranged to carry in a non-vulcanized green tire to the tire vulcanizers, and a carrying-out unit that is arranged to carry out a vulcanized tire, that extends in the upward-downward direction is coupled to the respective frames so as to stretch over the frames as a fixing part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.