Tire marking apparatus
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Technology Corporation
InventorsJiro Agawa, Yasutaka Seimoto, Hiroaki Yoneda, Kunio Matsunaga
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Abstract
This tire marking apparatus is a tire marking apparatus for performing marking in a tire. The tire marking apparatus includes a disk part having a central axis that is adjusted substantially perpendicularly to a printing surface of the tire; a plurality of printing parts that are provided in the disk part so as to be capable of moving forward and backward with respect to the printing surface and are arranged around the central axis; and a printing driving unit that moves at least one printing part arranged at a printing position that faces the printing surface of the tire forward.
Claims4
A tire marking apparatus for performing marking in a tire, comprising:
- a center position adjusting mechanism configured to cause the rotational position adjusting rollers to abut against the tread of the tire from a plurality of circumferential positions to align the tire;
- a disk part having a central axis that is adjusted substantially perpendicularly to a printing surface of the tire;
- a plurality of printing parts that are provided in the disk part so as to be capable of moving forward and backward with respect to the printing surface and are arranged around the central axis;
- and
- a printing driving unit that moves at least one printing part arranged at a printing position that faces the printing surface of the tire forward,
- wherein
- the centering mechanism is configured to cause the rotational position adjusting rollers to rotate the tire around an axis of the tire thereby mating a predetermined position on the printing surface with the position of the printing part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.