Abstract:
A tire configured from joining together plural tire frame members formed from a thermoplastic material in which sufficient strength of the joint portion is secured. Two tire halves 17A formed from a first thermoplastic material are supported by a tire supporting section 40 so as to be aligned with each other and abutting, while rotating this configuration melted welding thermoplastic material 43 is extruded from a nozzle 46 towards the joining location, and the welding thermoplastic material 43 is pressed by a flattening roller 48. The one tire half 17A and the other tire half 17A are thereby welded together with the welding thermoplastic material 43.
Abstract:
A stitcher apparatus for pressing a carcass ply sheet from its outer periphery as to be pressure-bonded onto a rubber sheet member after that the carcass ply sheet is pasted onto the rubber sheet member wound around a building drum, the stitcher apparatus including: a ring-shaped frame; and a plurality of pressure-bond rollers.
Abstract:
Adhering a belt edge tape to both respective side edge portions of the belt on the outer peripheral surface of the building drum by supplying a belt edge tape toward the outer peripheral surface of the building drum by pressing using an extruder which constitutes a supply device facing the building drum in an opposed manner and by pressing the tape to the building drum using a press roller on a leading side as viewed from a position where the tape is supplied in the rotational direction of the building drum, the building drum is rotated in the direction that end portions of the reinforcing cords on the side edge portion of the belt which constitutes a tape adhering side are positioned on a trailing side in the rotational direction of the building drum thus adhering the tape to the side edge portion.
Abstract:
A production device of a rubber band body includes: an extruder; and a pair of rollers for rolling a rubber member from the extruder between rolling areas of rollers to form a rubber band body, wherein a rolling area of at least one of the pair of rollers is configured by a circumferential groove formed in the outer periphery surface of the roller and extending over the entire periphery.
Abstract:
A process and an apparatus for building tires for vehicle wheels wherein the process includes the step of assembling components of elastomeric material on a forming support, in which at least one of the components of elastomeric material is manufactured by the steps of: i) dispensing a continuous elongated element of elastomeric material; ii) applying the continuous elongated element in the form of coils disposed in side by side relationship or at least partly superposed, wound up on the forming support, so as to form the at least one component of elastomeric material of the tire; iii) exerting a first pressure on a central region of a portion of the continuous elongated element applied onto the forming support; and iv) exerting a second pressure on side regions of the portion of the continuous elongated element applied onto the forming support.
Abstract:
A stitcher apparatus for pressing a carcass ply sheet from its outer periphery as to be pressure-bonded onto a rubber sheet member after that the carcass ply sheet is pasted onto the rubber sheet member wound around a building drum, the stitcher apparatus including: a ring-shaped frame; and a plurality of pressure-bond rollers.
Abstract:
An unvulcanized rubber member passed from the transfer terminal end of a liner to the outer peripheral surface of a winding roller is transferred and press-fitted to a winding body by rotating the winding roller. By this, the unvulcanized rubber member is transferred from the transfer terminal end of the liner to the winding body while being restrained by an outer peripheral surface of the winding roller. Thus, even if vibration is applied to a transfer means due to a diagonal waving, the winding position and the wound shape of the rubber member can be maintained substantially unchanged.
Abstract:
A roller assembly for use during tire construction includes a telescoping tube arrangement and a roller positioned thereabout. The telescoping tube arrangement has an inner tube section and an outer tube section and which can be adjusted in length to accommodate the width of the tire component under construction. The roller includes a cylindrical surface of a desired hardness which is positionable into engagement with the outer surface of the tire component under construction and which includes a plurality of roller sections which are positionable about the telescoping tube arrangement and in a side-by-side relationship with one another. In addition, each roller section defines a peripheral surface so that when the roller sections are positioned in a side-by-side relationship along the tube arrangement, the peripheral surfaces of the roller sections collectively provide the cylindrical surface of the roller.
Abstract:
A method of producing a pneumatic radial tire has a step of forming a tire casing, where, in the step, at least an inner liner, a left and right pair of narrow adhesion sheets, and a carcass layer are wound, in that order from the inside, in a hollow-cylindrical shape on the outer periphery of a shape-forming drum while being pressed by a pressing/adhering roller, and a bead core and a bead filler are set at both left and right end portions of the outermost periphery. The shape-forming drum has circumferential belt-like grooves formed in its outer periphery, at positions corresponding to the positions of the adhesion sheets. A shape-forming drum having an elastic layer coated on its outer periphery can also be used as the shape-forming drum.
Abstract:
Described is a method of joining a belt-tread assembly with a carcass assembly by stitching in green tyre production such that a pressure is applied in radial inward direction on the rotating outer peripheral surface of a belt-tread assembly (5) partially joined with an inflated carcass assembly (1) of a tyre, which is disposed on a tyre building drum, the pressure being exerted by inelastic force of at least two stitching rollers (2) which are rotationally and inelastically disposed on a rigid bearing part (3) of the stitching unit. The rigid bearing part (3) is provided with means for mutual symmetrical axial movement in the direction of arrow (6) of the stitching rollers (2) from the central part of the outer peripheral surface of the belt-tread assembly (5) of the tyre being produced to its shoulders, with means for moving the rigid bearing part (3) along an axis perpendicular to the rotation axis of the tyre being produced, and with means controlling rotational position of the stitching rollers (2) in the direction of arrow (7), the compressive force of the rollers (2) being controlled by the means for moving the rigid bearing part (3) in the direction of an axis perpendicular to the rotation axis of the tyre being produced. Also a device for accomplishing the method is described.