摘要:
Pressure is controlled in plural stages of a shaping system for a green tire in a curing press, so that each successive shaping stage is completed when a target pressure for that stage is reached. A radial tire is preferably shaped in three stages in the first of which a first target pressure in the range from 2 psig to 5 psig is the desired shaping pressure; in the second stage, a second target pressure in the range from 7-10 psig is desired; in the third stage, a third target pressure in the range from 10-15 psig is desired. A pressure transducer (PT) senses the pressure in a bladder, one PT for each bladder. A programmable controller (PC) which controls operation of the press, stores and executes a sequence of instructions which determine the optimum desired shaping pressure for each stage, computed from the type and size of the tire to be cured, the period of time the press is down before it is loaded, and the number of heats on each bladder. The automatic computation of optimum desired pressure for each shaping stage avoids having an operator set a mean pressure for each stage by trial and error, making such adjustments for change of bladder, and unduly long press down time which in his judgment appear to be reasonably likely to produce a defect-free cured tire.
摘要:
An improved process for vulcanization of elastomer products which includes the steps of heating under pressure, the elastomer product mounted in a metal mold by supplying vulcanizing medium, suspending the supply of the vulcanizing medium when the elastomer product has reached a predetermined temperature or passed through a predetermined time period, and subsequently supplying insert gas preliminarily extracted from atmospheric air and maintained at least under approximately the same pressure as that of the vulcanizing medium, up to the termination of the heating step so as to maintain the elastomer product at the predetermined temperature.
摘要:
Methods for controlling curing apparatuses for tyre production, wherein the curing apparatuses are adapted to work on green tyres to obtain corresponding finished tyres by acquiring, through a processing unit, initial parameters describing at least one of the shape and dimensions of the finished tyres. The processing unit computes first parameters describing the green tyres, the first parameters having at least one parameter representative of an axial height of the green tyres; second parameters describing the curing apparatuses, the second parameters having one or more parameters representative of dimensions of the curing apparatuses; and third parameters as a function of the first parameters and the second parameters, the third parameters having one or more parameters representative of positions taken by movable members included in the curing apparatuses. The processing unit generates signals for controlling the movable members of the curing apparatuses.
摘要:
A power source control device (401) supplies electrical power for performing vulcanizing processing of a green tire in at least one vulcanizing unit provided in the vulcanizing machine (300), from a first power source (100) capable of supplying continuous power and a second power source (200) capable of supplying charged power that is charged in advance. The power source control device (401) includes an information acquisition unit (412) and a power supply control unit (413). The information acquisition unit (412) acquires process information showing the kind of processes included in the vulcanizing processing in the vulcanizing unit (301). The power supply control unit (413) makes the charged power supplied from the second power source (200) to the vulcanizing unit (300) during a predetermined process, on the basis of the process information acquired by the information acquisition unit (412).
摘要:
Systems and methods for improving tire uniformity through identification of transient effects contributing to the non-uniformity of a tire are provided. More particularly, uniformity measurements can be obtained for a set of a plurality of tires. The uniformity measurements can include contributions from tire harmonic uniformity effects (e.g. effects attributable to tooling elements used during tire manufacture) as well as process harmonic uniformity effects (e.g. effects attributable to process elements used during tire manufacture). Certain of the tire harmonic uniformity effects can be transient effects that change from tire to tire. For instance, the effect attributable to a curing membrane used during the curing process can transiently change from tire to tire. Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to identifying transient effect contributions to uniformity measurements and improving the uniformity of the tire using the identified transient effect contributions.
摘要:
A method for controlling the discharge of fluids during a process for vulcanization and moulding of a green tire includes the steps of: building at least one portion of a radially internal surface of a green tire by winding of a continuous elongated element of elastomeric material into a plurality of coils confining circumferential grooves along the rolling direction of the tire; disposing the circumferential grooves into fluid communication with discharge channels present in the radially external surface of a pressing bladder disposed in a radially internal cavity bounded by the green tire.
摘要:
In a vulcanizing system of the present invention, a temperature booster and a pressure booster are provided on a steam supply path connecting vulcanizers that belong to groups and a boiler allocated to the groups. The temperature booster and the pressure booster are sequentially arranged from an upstream side, a second branch supply path for supplying the steam to a mold between the temperature booster and the pressure booster is branched from the steam supply path. The second branch supply path is preferably in a form of allowing the steam temperature-boosted by the temperature booster to be supplied to the mold by bypassing the pressure booster.
摘要:
The present invention includes methods and apparatus for curing retread tires, which includes detecting and controlling a leak in a tire-membrane assembly during such curing operations. The steps of the method include placing a plurality of tire-membrane assemblies within a tire curing chamber; connecting a membrane fluid passage to each curing membrane of each tire-membrane assembly where each passage extends in fluid communication between one of the curing membranes and a pressure source and/or a vacuum source, each membrane fluid passage including a transducer for measuring pressure within the passage and a flow restrictor, in particular embodiments; initiating a curing process; receiving a one or more signal responses from each transducer generated as a function of the fluid pressure within the membrane fluid passages; and determining through a controller whether the signal responses received in the prior step indicate an undesired change in pressure in each curing membrane.
摘要:
A vulcanization apparatus provided with a vulcanization vessel for vulcanizing a green tire and a suction line for sucking out gas from inside the vulcanization vessel after the vulcanization vessel has been opened. Accordingly, oily smoke generated when vulcanized rubber has been removed from a bladder and an inner wall of a mold can be more efficiently discharged than in cases in which gas inside a vulcanization vessel is sucked out and additional air is introduced into the vulcanization vessel only prior to opening the vulcanization vessel.