Abstract:
A tire vulcanizer wherein a movable upper mold is vertically moved and opened and closed relative to a fixed mold, and a ball-screw shaft construction is used as a vertically moving and opening and closing mechanism. Resilient buffer devices such as belleville springs or the like are resiliently supported on both upper and lower ends of the screw shaft. An improved slide guide construction for moving the upper mold up and down is also disclosed. A slide support is provided on an engaging end with respect to the guide of the slide, and the slide support is brought into engagement with the guide in such a way that a clearance therebetween may be adjusted.
Abstract:
The device comprises a spacing member axially screwable within a screw-threaded member, acting as a stop and establishing the operating position in question. For structural simplification and reduction of the production cost of the device, the screw-threaded member and the spacing element are substantially formed as sleeves which comprise a longitudinally extending slot. The slots may be placed in coincidence and have a width at least such that the device may be placed on an axially displaceable connecting rod of the tire processing machine, said rod carrying a tire holding means, the connecting rod being substantially surrounded.
Abstract:
A pair of arms having cable guides are connected for movement together and apart and include a torsion spring for urging the arms apart to maintain tension in a flexible cable carried by the cable guides. The cable is connected to a radially and axially movable segment of a segmental mold. The cable extends from the movable segment into a steam chamber and then through the cover of an opening in the wall of the steam chamber. At least one of the arms is mounted for hinged movement relative to the other arm on the cover so that the arms in a retracted position can be moved through the opening when the cover is removed.
Abstract:
An improved tire vulcanizing press includes an upper frame, a lower frame and side frames by way of which the upper frame and the lower frame are integrally connected to one another, wherein a lower die half is fixedly mounted on the lower frame and an upper die half is fixedly secured to a raising and lowering table adapted to be raised up or lowered by means of a raising and lowering mechanism fixedly attached to the upper frame in such a manner that the upper die half is displaced away from or toward the lower die half. The improvement consists in that a working cylinder, a spacer and a distance plate are arranged between the upper frame and the upper die half, the distance plate being adapted to move from the operative position in the vulcanizing press to the inoperative one located outward of the latter and vice versa, and a die thickness adjusting mechanism arranged on either of the upper frame and the lower frame whereby a vulcanizing operation is safely carried out with a minimal die opening in the event of a malfunction caused with respect to the working cylinder.
Abstract:
A tire withdrawal arrangement for use in a green tire shaping process which includes a platform car arranged to be movable in a direction for withdrawing a tire from a tire shaping former, a rotating support stand provided on the platform car, and tire support arms of elevating and rocking type provided on the rotating support stand, with the tire withdrawn from the tire shaping former through the tire support arms being rotated on the rotating support stand so as to feed the tire onto a conveyor device through rocking motion of the tire support arms.
Abstract:
A vehicle tire crown portion 10 including a tread 11 is injection molded and prevulcanized in a closed annular mold cavity 17 defined by a segmented outer mold 16 clamped together by a locking ring 22 and a segmented core 19 pressed against the outer mold by upper and lower pressure plates 25, 26. The core is then removed by disassembling its segments, whereafter a carcass 14 and prevulcanized sidewalls 12, 13 are placed in the central portion of the mold on an inflatable air bag 38 flanked by lateral mold section 39, 40. The vulcanization of the tire assembly is then completed, during which the sidewalls are joined to the retained crown portion.
Abstract:
When this airplane tire is mounted on its rim, its carcass reinforcement has a relative camber of convexity before inflation which is at most equal to 0.17 in the crown and at most equal to to 0.20 in the sidewalls. After inflation, the equilibrium curve of this carcass reinforcement is, at the level of the shoulders of the tire, located radially outwards of its equilibrium curve in the tire before inflation.The cables of the lateral plies of the tripartite crown reinforcement are very extensible and have a high coefficient of contraction under the heat at the temperature of vulcanization of the tire.
Abstract:
A method of making a composite, e.g. a hose comprises (i) applying a treatment agent to the surface of a vulcanizable rubber composition, then (ii) vulcanizing the rubber composition and then (iii) solidifying a polymeric material e.g. a vinyl chloride polymer in contact with the vulcanized treated rubber composition.
Abstract:
A chuck assembly for use in a loader of a tire vulcanizer including a ring-shaped chuck main casing having an inner cylinder of a bore long enough to allow entry of a press center mechanism including a center post, a bladder and so forth, an outer cylinder concentrically surrounding the periphery of the inner cylinder and an upper cover connecting the inner and outer cylinders, rails radially aligned between the inner and outer cylinders in the main casing, a plurality of chucking paddles held by sliders slidably extending on a respective one of the rails for movement along the rails, and a ring-shaped chuck cam rotatably disposed about a rotational axis of the inner cylinder in the chuck main casing, wherein slider shafts of one of the respective paddles are slidably engaged with working cam grooves radially aligned in the chuck cam.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for unloading a tire from a tire vulcanizer wherein following the vulcanization of the tire within upper and lower molds the tires withdrawn from a bladder through tire support arms travelling in a given trajectory and is then transferred on to a device which in turn conveys the tire to the next succeeding step, the method utilized in accordance with the apparatus including the steps of forwarding the tire support arms in a horizontal direction to correspond to sides of the bottom of the tire to be removed, elevating the arms in a vertical direction together with the tire for removing the tire therefrom and transfering the tire onto the conveying device via a path different from that for the forwarding arms while the tire is being held in a horizontal position.