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| 20080216941 | Tyre Manufacturing Process - A process for manufacturing a tyre which has at least one structural element including at least one first portion made of a first crude elastomeric material, and at least one second portion made of the first crude elastomeric material, the second portion being axially spaced apart from the first portion. The process includes the steps of forming a crude tyre on a supporting device and moulding and curing the crude tyre, wherein the step of forming the crude tyre includes the step of providing the structural element. The step of providing the structural element includes: a) forming the first portion by winding at least one continuous elongate element made of the first crude elastomeric material by means of a roto-translational movement between the supporting device and an erogating device for supplying the continuous elongate element; b) starting to apply the continuous elongate element in a position axially spaced apart from the first portion while continuing supplying the continuous elongate element so as to form the second portion; and c) forming the second portion by winding the continuous elongate element made of the first crude elastomeric material by means a roto-translational movement between the supporting device and the erogating device. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080230170 | Method for vacuum forming an elastomeric tire - A vacuum forming process for manufacturing a transport tire from an elastomeric material that include steps of: in a mold having a cavity or annular area, positioning a transport tire core of plies, belt and beads that has been laid-up on a mandrel. Fitting a cover in sealing engagement over the mold top and fitting a cylindrical canister, that is open at a top end, through the center of the cover and into the mold center and pouring an elastomeric material mixture into the canister that includes a needle valve in its lower end that exhausts into one end of the mold annular area. The cylindrical canister includes a port for connection to a deep vacuum source and the cover includes a port that is for connection to a low level vacuum source, where the deep vacuum is to remove air from the elastomeric material mixture, and, after filling, is open to atmosphere, and the needle valve is opened to the mold annular chamber allowing the mixture to be pulled by the low level vacuum through the mold annular cavity, impregnating the transport tire core maintained therein. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080236726 | Process for Manufacturing Elastomeric Tire Components - A process for manufacturing an elastomeric tire component includes the steps of a) preparing an elongated element including a cross-linkable elastomeric material by feeding it to an extruding device having a plurality of units, each having a respective thermal inertia, and b) delivering the elongated element onto a building support, and further includes at least one non-productive step of c) submitting at least one of the units of the extruding device to a thermal transition selected from heating or cooling, substantially reducing the risk of scorching during the thermal transition from and to the non-productive step ranking the units according to their thermal inertia and heating the units starting with the top-ranked unit sequentially to the bottom-ranked unit to reach the respective working temperature or cooling the units starting from the maximum working temperature unit sequentially to the minimum working temperature unit to reach the respective non-working temperature. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080257478 | Tire Molding Apparatus with Folding Mechansim and Method of Folding in Molding Tire - A tire molding apparatus folds the periphery of bead portions at a low speed with an increased pressing force. The tire molding apparatus has folding mechanisms including fingers to fold the tire component to the periphery of bead cores. Folding fingers ( | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080302463 | Method and Apparatus for Manufacturing Tyres for Vehicle Wheels - In a method for manufacturing tyres for vehicle wheels, a green tyre, once formed, is transferred into a vulcanisation mould and pressed against the holding walls of a moulding cavity. Concurrently with the pressing step, a fluid present between the green tyre and the holding walls is evacuated through vent valves. The tyre is brought into contact with the closing head of each valve so as to push it toward a closed position of the valve itself. The closing head has a distal portion facing the moulding cavity and includes at least one grip element for the tyre blend, so that the closure member is pulled toward the open position while the moulded and cured tyre is moved away from the inner surface of said moulding cavity. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080302464 | PRODUCING METHOD OF STEEL CORD PLY, STEEL CORD PLY, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE USING THE SAME - A producing method of a steel cord play includes first and second topping steps. In the first topping step, a first topping rubber is concentrically attached to a periphery of each steel cords. With this, steel cords having rubber which are pre-coated with the first topping rubber are formed. In the second topping step, a second topping rubber is attached to at least one surface of a steel cord array in which the steel cords having rubber are arranged, thereby forming a sheet-like steel cord ply. The first topping step is carried out immediately before the second topping step. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080302465 | TIRE DESIGN METHOD - In a tire design method, a numerical optimization is performed according to a basis vector process using an FEM model to obtain an optimal solution which optimizes an objective function for a tread pattern shape. A numerical optimization is performed according to an ECAT using the FEM model to obtain an optimal solution which optimizes the objective function for the tread pattern shape. Either of the calculations is executed first, and the optimal solution obtained at the first calculation is used as an initial shape when the other numerical optimization is performed. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080302466 | TIRE DESIGN METHOD - A tire is designed using a tire FEM model by obtaining an optimal solution for a tire structure which optimizes an objective function with a tread pattern shape kept fixed and performing a numerical optimization for obtaining an optimal solution for the tread pattern shape which optimizes the objective function with the tire structure kept fixed. The optimization for the tire structure is performed using a tire model having a tread pattern shape optimized at the immediately preceding cycle of the operation of optimizing the tread pattern shape. The optimization for the tread pattern shape is performed using a tire model having a tire structure optimized at the preceding cycle of the operation of optimizing the tire structure. The optimizing operations are repeated until convergence of optimal solutions obtained by those operations takes place. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080314503 | Machine and Method for Applying a Tread to a Tyre Carcass - A machine ( | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090008024 | Method and Apparatus for Manufacturing Pneumatic Tyres - A green tyre disposed on a toroidal support is introduced into a vulcanisation mould. The mould is closed through axial approaching of a pair of half shells acting against the sidewalls and the tread band of the tyre. Circumferential sectors set to operate against the tyre tread band are maintained spaced apart from the tread band itself during admission of a working fluid designed to press the tyre against the toroidal support. Subsequently the sectors are centripetally approached to cause penetration of forming ridges movable in through slits into the tread band, concurrently with a step of full moulding and vulcanisation of the tyre carried out through admission of steam under pressure into the tyre itself. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090032172 | Method of Fabricating Pneumatic Tire - A resin film having a melting point equal to or higher than 230° C. and a thickness of 20 through 150 μm is pasted to an outer surface of a side portion of an unvulcanized tire and by vulcanizing and molding the unvulcanized tire in a state of pasting the resin film, a pneumatic tire provided with the resin film at the outer surface of the tire side portion to be able to be exfoliated therefrom is fabricated. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090032173 | Method of Fabricating Pneumatic Tire - A pneumatic tire provided with a resin film at an outer surface of the tire side portion to be able to be exfoliated therefrom by pasting a smooth resin film having a melting point equal to or higher than 23° C., a Young's modulus equal to or larger than 2.5 GPa and a thickness of 10 through 150 μm to an outer surface of a side portion of an unvulcanized tire and vulcanizing and molding the unvulcanized tire in a state of pasting the resin film. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090032174 | METHOD OF FABRICATING PNEUMATIC TIRE - A smooth resin film including an ultraviolet ray absorbing agent is pasted to an outer surface of a side portion of an unvulcanized tire, the unvulcanized tire is vulcanized and molded in a state of pasting the resin film, thereby, a pneumatic tire provided with the resin film at the outer surface of the tire side portion to be able to be exfoliated therefrom is fabricated. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090101270 | Method and apparatus for the vulcanisation of tyres for vehicle wheels - A vulcanisation apparatus and method for tyres for vehicle wheels includes the steps of: placing a green tyre, arranged on a toroidal support, inside a vulcanisation mold; connecting a supply device of at least one pressurised primary working fluid and a supply device of at least one pressurised secondary working fluid to the vulcanisation mold in a prevulcanisation and molding station; at least partially vulcanising a radially internal portion of the green tyre on the toroidal support; transferring the mold to a vulcanisation station and completing the vulcanisation of the prevulcanised tyre by supplying the at least one pressurised primary working fluid inside the toroidal support. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090120561 | TIRE FORMING MOLD AND TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A tire forming mold has a side mold portion and an annular mold portion fitted to an outer side in a tire diametrical direction of the side mold portion at a time of clamping the mold, wherein the annular mold portion is constructed by a combination of sectors which are divided in a tire circumferential direction, and each of the sectors is capable of displacing in the tire diametrical direction, wherein a fitting diameter of the annular mold portion is set to be equal to or more than a fitting diameter of the pair of side mold portions, an annular rubber introduction groove extending along the tire circumferential direction is provided at least in one of a fitting surface of the annular mold portion and a fitting surface of the pair of side mold portions, and a shallow groove portion is formed in an introduction port of the rubber introduction groove. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090159181 | LOADING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY OF A TIRE CURING MOLD - Loading apparatus and method for positioning a green tire and core assembly into a toroidally shaped mold includes a stand assembly having a support surface operatively receiving a first mold sidewall forming segment thereon, the surface having a central opening. A spindle engagement assembly projects upwardly through the support surface central opening and includes a coupling mechanism at a forward end operatively mating with a first spindle end of a tire building core. The coupling mechanism operatively suspends a sidewall of a green tire on the tire building core a distance above a first mold sidewall forming segment positioned on the stand support surface. The spindle engagement assembly moves axially between a raised position and a lowered position and, in the lowered position operatively places the sidewall surface of the green tire on the first mold sidewall forming segment. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090159182 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUILDING A PUNCTURE SEALANT PREASSEMBLED COMPONENT - A method and apparatus for making a preassembly of built in sealant useful in tire manufacturing. The method of making the preassembled sealant includes extruding a center strip and at least two axially outer strips of a sealant onto a first conveyor belt; wherein the center strip and the axially outer strips are in a side by side adjacent relationship. Conveying the center strip onto a second conveyor while the axially outer strips are conveyed on the first conveyor belt towards the end of the belt, wherein the center strip has two outer edges, wherein a divider strip is applied to each other edge in a continuous manner, wherein the center strip is then conveyed onto the axially outer strips and then stitched together forming a preassembled component. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090211695 | Method and Apparatus for Manufacturing Tyres - A green tyre is built on a rigid toroidal support externally having a forming surface of a conformation corresponding to an inner conformation of the tyre. The built tyre is removed from the rigid toroidal support and engaged on an expandable toroidal support which includes a bladder. The green tyre engaged on the expandable toroidal support is introduced into a vulcanisation mould and submitted to a vulcanisation cycle. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090218035 | ROLLER FOR APPLYING CONTACT PRESSURE ONTO SHEETS OF MATERIAL - This application relates to rollers that may be used to apply pressure onto one or more sheets of material. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090260743 | TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE UNIFORMITY OF A TIRE - A tire manufacturing method includes a method for optimizing the uniformity of a tire by reducing the green tire radial runout. The green tire radial runout is modeled as a vector sum of each of the vectors representing contributions arising from the tire building steps. A set of vector coefficients is generated from the vector equation. The building steps include building the tire carcass, building the tire summit, transferring the summit onto the inflate carcass, and measuring the radial runout and tooling angles at each step in the process. After the model is built the vector equations and coefficients are applied to subsequent tires. By adjusting the tooling angles, green tire radial runout can be optimized. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100000658 | Transfer Ring Having Advantaged Cam Follower-Camming Groove Aspect and Method - A transfer ring especially suitable for use in the manufacture of vehicle tires including a skeletal cylindrical cage which houses an oscillatable circular drive member therewithin. The drive member includes a plurality of cam followers disposed about the outer perimeter thereof and which operatively engage respective camming grooves defined in each of a plurality of hinged driven links which are individually hingedly mounted internally of the cage about the outer perimeter of the cage. Each driven link includes an inboard end hinged within the cage and an outboard end having an articulating shoe mounted thereon. The shoes on the several driven links are interconnected to provide like simultaneous substantially equal articulative and rotational movement of the shoes radially inwardly or radially outwardly of the cage upon rotational movement of the drive member and resultant rotational movement of the hinged driven links effected through the cam followers and camming grooves of the driven links. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100000659 | BISPLIT MOLD FOR TIRE FORMING AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING TIRE THEREWITH - Provided is a bisplit mold for tire forming capable of avoiding the pinching of the unvulcanized tire at the mold clamping. Also provided is a process for manufacturing a tire by use of the bisplit mold. The bisplit mold includes: a plurality of segments provided to each of the paired containers, and formed by being divided in the tire circumferential direction and; opening-closing means provided to the respective containers, cause the superior and the inferior segments to come close to and separate away from each other, the segments being attached to the pair of containers with vertically bisplit center plates placed between the pair of containers; a superior side plate and an inferior side plate provided respectively to the pair of containers; and vertically bisplit mold pieces provided to the inner sides of the segments. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100032078 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PNEUMATIC TIRE - A method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire capable of improving the rolling resistance is disclosed. The green tire put in a mold is vulcanized together with the belt cord topping rubber by heating the green tire from the inside of the tire with a high-temperature heating medium and from the outside of the tire with the mold heated. The topping rubber comprises 25 to 55 parts by mass of carbon black and/or silica, and sulfur. The base rubber comprises 10 to 45 mass % of modified butadiene rubber and/or modified styrene butadiene rubber with respect to 100 mass % of the base rubber. The maximum temperature of the topping rubber in a cord near region within 3 mm distance from the surfaces of the belt cords is limited within a range of from 140 to 165 deg.C. The temperature of the mold is set within a range of from 140 to 165 deg.C. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100043947 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING AND PLACING BEADS FOR TYRES, DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SUCH A METHOD AND SPACER TO BE USED IN SUCH A METHOD AND/OR DEVICE - Method for transferring and placing beads for tyres, providing:
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| 20100108239 | Tire composition with improved vulcanizing agent - A tire composition with a Shore A hardness, according to DIN 53 505 and ASTM D2240, of not less than 40 and not greater than 95 and a glass-transition temperature T | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100139844 | TIRE BUILDING CORE HANDLING MECHANISM AND METHOD - A core handling apparatus is provided for a tire building core. The handling apparatus includes a base plate; a latching mechanism mounted to the base plate and operably inserting into an axial opening at a remote end of a first spindle mechanism connected to a tire building core assembly. The latching mechanism has a latching member operably engaging the first spindle mechanism from within the axial opening. A handle mechanism mounts to the base plate and extends outward. The handle mechanism rotates under manual power to rotate the core assembly through the latching mechanism into alternate angular orientations. The core handling apparatus latching mechanism moves between a radially retracted position that facilitates a close insertion into the spindle mechanism axial opening and a radially extended second position from within the spindle mechanism axial opening to engage the spindle mechanism. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100212810 | SLEEVE DEVICE, TIRE BUILDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD - Apparatuses and methods are provided for assisting in the installation of a tubular film onto a drum for use in the manufacture of tires. In one embodiment, a sleeve is provided having a body including a first tapered portion with an end surface, a central portion, and a plurality of openings through the body. In another embodiment, a tire building apparatus is provided including a sleeve device and a drum in contact with the sleeve device. A method of making tires is provided including forcing fluid through openings of a sleeve device, placing a tubular film about the sleeve device, and transporting the tubular film onto a drum. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100230033 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SEPARATING AND REMOVING RIGID CORE FOR BUILDING TIRE - Provided are a method and a device for efficiently separating and automatically removing a tire-building rigid core from the inside of the tire. After a core holding mechanism and upper and lower support plates are removed from a rigid core body that is disposed in the tire and composed of two types of segment groups, the tire is transferred onto a predetermined position on a support table, and positioned and fixed. Then, a first core separation/removal mechanism having been on standby below the center of the tire on the support table is raised to support the center of the inner wall surface of one type of the segment groups and horizontally pull the one type of the segment groups to the center side of the tire until it is separated from the inner surface of the tire. The separated segment group is lowered to the standby position below the center of the support table and is left on standby. Next, in the same way as above, the other type of the segment groups is separated from the inner surface of the tire and moved to a standby position by a second core separation/removal mechanism having been on standby at another standby position. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100282396 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - A carcass ply includes a plurality of mutually parallel reinforcing cords incorporated into an elastomeric material having a length, a width and a design angle. A continuous strip element of a width, including at least one reinforcing cord incorporated into the elastomeric material, is spirally wound on a forming support adapted to be radially configured. A width of an overlapped part of a coil is set on an adjacent coil, and the whole number of coils, a circumferential extension of the forming support and a true advancing pitch of the coils is calculated. After radially configuring the forming support in order to obtain the calculated circumferential extension, the continuous strip element is laid on the forming support so as to make a semifinished product which is cut along a cutting line passing through a starting end and a final end of the continuous strip element and unrolled from the forming support. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110056612 | Method for Producing Polymer Sheet for Inner Liner and Method for Producing Pneumatic Tire - The present invention provides a polymer sheet for an inner liner and a method for producing a pneumatic tire, which do not cause an air-in phenomenon between an inner liner and an insulation rubber or a carcass rubber in the vulcanization step, and also can prevent adhesion between the inner liner and a bladder. The method for producing a polymer sheet for an inner liner includes the steps of preparing an unvulcanized polymer sheet made of a polymer mixture containing 99 to 60% by mass of a styrene-isobutylene-styrene triblock copolymer, and 1 to 40% by mass of a polyamide-based polymer containing polyamide in the molecular chain and having a Shore D hardness of 70 or less, and at least one of the steps of coating one surface of the unvulcanized polymer sheet with a water-soluble paint 2 to 5 times, and coating with a mold-releasing rubber in a thickness of 0.001 mm to 0.1 mm.f. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110114251 | TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE UNIFORMITY OF A TIRE - A tire manufacturing method includes a method for optimizing the uniformity of a tire by reducing the after cure radial force variation. The after cure radial force variation vector is modeled as a vector sum of each of the vectors representing contributions arising from the tire building steps—the “tire room effect vector” and a vector representing contributions arising from the vulcanization and uniformity measurement steps—the “curing room effect vector.” In further detail, both the tire room and curing room effect vectors can be further decomposed into sub-vectors representing each radial force variation contribution for which a measurable indicator is available. For a series of tires, the method obtains such measurements as the before cure radial runout (RRO) at one or more stages of the building sequence, measurements of loading angles on the tire building equipment, and measurements made during vulcanization process. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110126962 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING TYRES - In an assembly station a carcass sleeve and an outer sleeve manufactured along respective building lines are mutually coupled. Integrated into the assembly station are engagement devices that can be alternatively coupled to an auxiliary drum carrying an outer sleeve and to a building drum carrying a carcass sleeve. A grip unit picks up the outer sleeve from the auxiliary drum associated with the engagement devices in order to position it to a location radially external to the carcass sleeve carried by the building drum associated with the engagement devices in place of the auxiliary drum. Shaping devices that can be operatively coupled to the building drum cause radial expansion of the carcass sleeve so as to enable the latter to be coupled to the outer sleeve retained by the grip unit. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110146883 | CONTINUOUS MIXING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS - An apparatus for applying a mixtures of a first compound and a second compound, the apparatus comprising: a first extruder and a first gear pump for a first compound; a second extruder and a second gear pump for a second compound, a third extruder and a third gear pump for an accelerator mixture; a mixing device for mixing together said first compound and said second compound and said accelerator mixture, wherein said mixing device is located downstream of said first, second and third extruders and said first, second and third gear pumps. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110146884 | CONTINUOUS MIXING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for applying a blended rubber composition directly onto a tire building drum or core is described. A first extruder and a first gear pump for a first compound is provided. A second extruder and a second gear pump for a second compound is provided. The output of the second gear pump is fed into the main extruder. A third gear pump is provided for adding an accelerator mixture; mixing together said first compound and said second compound and said accelerator mixture. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110180200 | METHOD FOR INTERCHANGING INDICIA OF TIRE MOLDS - A method selectively forms indicia of a tire sidewall. The method includes the steps of engaging a surface of an uncured tire by a first indicia forming member of a tire mold member, detaching the first indicia forming member from the tire mold member by a hand tool, and securing a second indicia forming member to the tire mold member by an impact device. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110186207 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - An apparatus for manufacturing tyres for vehicle wheels wherein each tyre includes a carcass structure formed starting from at least one carcass ply laid on a forming support extended along a longitudinal axis. The apparatus includes at least one device for positioning at least one annular anchoring structure on at least one end edge of the carcass ply, the positioning device being circumferentially extended around the longitudinal axis of the forming support and axially movable with respect to the forming support between an operating position distal from the forming support and at least one operating position close to the forming support. The apparatus further includes a device for turning up the end edge of the carcass ply around the annular anchoring structure, the turning up device being circumferentially extended about the longitudinal axis of the forming support and axially movable for approaching/moving away to/from the forming support. The positioning device and the turning up device are radially expandable/contractible in a synchronous manner with respect to the longitudinal axis of the forming support and are settable in a plurality of different operating radial positions, each operating radial position being selected based on a respective radial dimension of the tyre to be manufactured. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120024464 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - In the building of a carcass structure for tyres of vehicle wheels, the step of reinforcing with a loop at least one annular anchoring structure associated at the axially opposite end edges of a carcass ply is carried out on at least one radially expandable/contractable service drum and includes the steps of: setting the service drum to a predetermined radial dimension selected according to the fitting diameter of the tyre to be manufactured, depositing the loop on the service drum, loading the annular anchoring structure onto the service drum in a radially outer position with respect to the loop, radially expanding the service drum up to lock in position the annular anchoring structure, rotating the service drum about a longitudinal axis thereof and, during the rotation, turning the loop up about the annular anchoring structure. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120037298 | TYRE BUILDING DRUM FOR BUILDING AN UNVULCANISED TYRE - Tyre building drum comprising a main housing having a drum shaft extending from the main housing and two first and second drum halves arranged at least almost substantially symmetrical with respect to the centre of the tyre building drum and around the drum shaft, which drum halves can be moved in axial direction along the drum shaft. Each drum half comprises a folding arm unit having folding arms that are connected to the drum half in question in a swivelling manner and wherein the folding arm unit can be moved in axial direction along the drum shaft. In the drum shaft at least two pull/push rods are arranged that are movable in axial direction and extend up into the main housing and in the main housing on the one hand are coupled to a drive mechanism. On the other hand a first pull/push rod is coupled to the folding arm unit of the first drum half, and a second pull/push rod is coupled to the folding arm unit of the second drum half. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120073728 | TIRE BUILDING DRUM AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF UNVULCANIZED TIRES - By increasing the number of segments constituting the outer periphery of a tire building drum, sufficient roundness is ensured for the tire building drum in a wide diameter expansion/reduction range. The tire building drum used for manufacture of an unvulcanized tire is expanded or reduced in diameter in at least a part of the outer periphery by displacing a plurality of extensible/contractible segments sequentially arranged in the drum peripheral direction. Furthermore, the tire building drum is provided with a pair of segment displacing means which expand/contract the plurality of segments, and the pair of segment displacing means are alternately connected to each of the segments in the drum peripheral direction. Each of the connected segments is displaced, respectively, by the pair of segment displacing means. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120090766 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A SELF-INFLATING TIRE - A method of constructing a self-inflating tire includes: forming a pre-cure green tire body; positioning an air passageway body within the green tire body to extend between an outward facing green tire body surface and the tire cavity, the air passageway body having an enclosed air passageway extending between a hollow body outlet end facing the tire cavity and a hollow inlet end facing outward from the outward facing green tire body surface; curing the green tire body into a finished cured tire body; affixing one or more tapping device(s) over one or both ends of the air passageway body; and establishing through a hollow protrusion member of the tapping device an air flow path extending between the air passageway within the air passageway body and a vent opening within the tapping device. The method includes a routing of the air passageway body through the green tire body along a non-linear path between an outward tire body surface and the inward tire body surface; wherein the non-linear path to at least partially surround a first tire body bead core; and wherein the air passageway body is positioned between overlapping green tire components such as first and second tire turn-up chafer components. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120111480 | Tire Carcass Building Method And Drum - To build a tyre carcass, a tubular carcass body is formed about a building drum, which has a longitudinal axis, and an outer surface coaxial with the longitudinal axis and defined at least partly by a ring of longitudinal articulated rods lying in respective planes of a sheaf of planes through the longitudinal axis; the building drum locking two bead bundles to the tubular carcass body and torus-shaping the tubular carcass body by moving and/or deforming the articulated rods in their planes. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120132346 | Core-First Nanoparticle Formation Process, Nanoparticle, And Composition - A method is provided for synthesizing a core-shell nanoparticle that includes the following steps: providing a polymeric seed (in a solvent) that includes a mono-vinyl monomer cross-linked with a cross-linking agent to form the core of the nanoparticle, the core has an average diameter of from about nanometers to about 10,000 nanometers, and the core has polymer chains with living ends; adding a stabilizer to stabilize the seed and prevent the seed from precipitating out of solution; and grafting a shell species onto the living ends of the core to form the shell of the nanoparticle. A core-first synthesized nanoparticle, along with a rubber composition and tire product are also provided. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120132347 | MACHINES AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING OF AN OBJECT CLOSED ONTO ITSELF - A machine for manufacturing tyre components, which machine includes a first part or combination of parts for guiding and carrying a tyre material to be arranged round itself, which part can change form in controlled manner between a first form and a second form. The machine may also comprises means for folding the tyre material arranged round the first part or combination of parts, which includes a number of folding members movable relative to each other, which folding members can engage on the tyre material for folding and can therein move inside recesses provided for this purpose in the first part or combination of parts. The invention also relates to methods for manufacturing tyre components. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120138213 | PROCESS AND PLANT FOR BUILDING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - A plant, a method and a process for building tyres for vehicle wheels in a carcass structure building line includes: a) associating a pair of support rings with a forming drum in a work station for associating support rings; b) building at least one structural component of the tyre being processed on the forming drum provided with the pair of support rings in at least one work station of the carcass structure building line; c) removing the pair of support rings from the forming drum in a work station for removing support rings; d) transferring the pair of support rings dissociated from the forming drum to a temporary storage for support rings; and e) building at least one further structural component of the tyre being processed on the forming drum without the pair of support rings in a work station of the carcass structure building line. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120199273 | Method of Making a Pneumatic Innerliner - This disclosure is directed to a method of preparing a continuous elastomeric length for a pneumatic innerliner comprising providing a continuous elastomeric length comprising a plasticizer and an elastomer; heating the continuous elastomeric length for a residence time at a temperature no higher than 15° C. above the flash point of the plasticizer; and cooling the length to form a heat-treated continuous elastomeric length having a level of plasticizer less than the level of plasticizer in the continuous elastomeric length. In certain embodiments, the heat-treated continuous elastomeric length or laminate comprising the heat-treated continuous length can be first cut to form a pneumatic innerliner unit, and splicing the pneumatic innerliner unit to itself to form a pneumatic innerliner. The heat-treated continuous elastomeric length or laminate comprising the heat-treated continuous length can be cut into the form of a sleeve to form a pneumatic innerliner sleeve, and the sleeve incorporated into a tire. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120216942 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEEL - A process and apparatus for manufacturing tyres for vehicle wheels includes the step of building, on a forming support, a belt structure including at least one reinforcing structure of the so-called zero-degree type. The reinforcing structure is formed by depositing a continuous elongated reinforcing element on a deposition surface arranged in a radially outer position with respect to the forming support. The aforementioned deposition includes the step of exerting, through at least one element made from magnetic material, a magnetic attraction on a portion of the continuous elongated reinforcing element arranged at at least one pressing member and moving said at least one pressing member toward the forming support until the continuous elongated reinforcing element is brought into contact with the deposition surface. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120318439 | EXTRUSION PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING ELASTOMERIC COMPOUNDS - An extrusion device for producing elastomeric compounds, includes a holding body internally confining a chamber and at least one extrusion screw disposed in the chamber. The device further includes a plurality of interchangeable extrusion heads alternatively installed on the holding body at a discharge opening of the chamber. The choice of using a type of head rather than another or leaving the discharge opening free is carried out based on the physico-chemical features of the elastomeric compound to be treated, so as to maintain the temperature and/or pressure of the outgoing compound under critical threshold values for such a compound. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130000823 | PROCESS AND PLANT FOR BUILDING TYRES - A plant for building tyres for vehicle wheels, includes at least one forming drum having a supporting shaft axially projecting from opposite sides relative to a central body. A handling device is adapted to engage the forming drum and transfer it between at least one loading/unloading location and a work location provided for carrying out at least one process working on the forming drum. The handling device includes a grip assembly carrying at least two grip members each engaging the supporting shaft in the vicinity of each of the end portions thereof, and at least one motor associated with at least one of said grip members for driving the forming drum in rotation while the at least one process working is being carried out in the work location. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130008588 | METHOD OF PRODUCING PNEUMATIC TIRE - A method of producing a pneumatic tire T having at least one hoop-and-loop fastener provided along the circumferential direction of the tire on the inner surface of the tire is disclosed. The method includes, forming on a building drum, a cylindrical first formed body with the at least one hoop-and-loop fastener intermittently attached to the radially inner surface thereof along the circumferential direction of the drum, forming a green tire by expanding the first formed body into a toroidal shape to press the first formed body against the inner peripheral side of an annular second formed body, and vulcanizing the green tire. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130037203 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING DEPOSITION OF A CONTINUOUS ELONGATED ELEMENT IN BUILDING A TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS, PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR BUILDING A TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - A method of controlling deposition of a continuous elongated element in building a tire for vehicle wheels, includes; feeding an initial end of a continuous elongated element of elastomeric material through a slit bounded by a first roller and a second roller of a calender; retaining the continuous elongated element against a peripheral surface of the first roller; laying the initial end of the continuous elongated element against a deposition surface; rotating the calender around an oscillation axis that is substantially coincident with a contact generatrix between the first roller and the second roller; and dragging along the continuous elongated element together with the deposition surface. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130105068 | BAND DRUM POP-UP HINGE | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130133810 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PNEUMATIC TIRE AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF PNEUMATIC TIRE - An annular rubber member is molded, across a through hole, on a support surface of a support device that includes the support surface and the through hole which opens to the support surface. The rubber member molded on the support surface is arranged so as to oppose a sidewall unit of a shaped tire intermediate body. The support device is moved close to the tire intermediate body and the rubber member on the support surface is brought into contact with the sidewall unit. The rubber member is adhered to the sidewall by moving the press member that presses the rubber member to the side wall unit via the through hole, in a tire radial direction. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130160927 | AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION - A method of constructing a tire includes: constructing an elongate strip core; encasing the strip core into a containment within an uncured flexible tire component, the strip core extending between an air inlet and an air outlet cavity in the flexible tire component; building on a tire building drum a green tire carcass from tire components including the flexible tire component and encased strip core; removing the encased strip core from the cured flexible tire component to leave within the flexible tire component a substantially unobstructed air passageway; and inserting a permanent air inlet assembly into the air inlet cavity and a permanent air outlet assembly into the air outlet cavity. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130160928 | METHOD OF FORMING AN AIR PASSAGEWAY IN AN AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - A method of forming an air passageway in a an air maintenance tire carcass includes: embedding an elongate strip within a pre-cured flexible tire component of a pre-cured tire carcass, the elongate strip extending in a longitudinal direction between an air inlet cavity and an air outlet cavity in the flexible tire component; curing the pre-cured tire carcass including the flexible tire component; extracting the elongate strip longitudinally end-to-end from occupancy within the flexible tire component; and defining an air passageway in the flexible component by the space previously occupied by the withdrawn elongate strip. A free end portion of the strip is accessible at either the air inlet cavity or the air outlet cavity, and the elongate strip may be extracted from either the air inlet cavity or the air outlet cavity by a tensile withdrawal force applied to the elongate strip free end. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130160929 | METHOD OF PROVIDING AN AIR PASSAGE IN A TIRE - The present invention is directed to a method of constructing a tire, comprising:
| 06-27-2013 |
| 20130160930 | METHOD OF APPLYING PLY TO A TIRE BUILDING DRUM - A method for applying a sheet of flexible material to a cylindrical body is described. The sheet of material may be ply or a tire building component such as a liner. The method includes the steps of receiving the sheet of flexible material onto a conveyor belt of a conveyor table, wherein the conveyor belt can translate in the X direction, wherein the conveyor belt has a plurality of rollers rotatably mounted on the conveyor belt so they can rotate about an axis aligned with the X direction. The method further includes aligning a lateral edge of the sheet with an edge guide of the conveyor table by tilting the conveyor table and then tilting the conveyor table back to a level position. The method further includes moving a front edge of the conveyor table adjacent the cylindrical body; and applying the sheet onto the cylindrical body. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130168008 | APPARATUS FOR JOINING TIRE CONSTITUENT MEMBER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TIRE CONSTITUENT MEMBER - When end portions of a tire constituent member are to be brought into contact with each other and joined together, the end portions to be joined together are prevented from being caught by a pair of joining rollers. The end portions of the tire constituent member are arranged opposite to each other. The pair of joining rollers is made to roll on the end portions of the tire constituent member and the end portions are brought into contact with each other and joined together by the joining rollers. An entanglement preventing member is moved together with the pair of joining rollers and the end portions of the tire constituent member in front of the joining rollers. The end portions of the tire constituent member are pressed by the entanglement preventing member, and entanglement of the end portions is prevented. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130199703 | Needle for Inserting a Wire Into a Tire - The needle ( | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130199704 | System and Method for Customizing Vehicle Tires on Demand at Point-of-Sale - Methods and systems for on demand, customized manufacture of vehicle tires at a point-of-sale are disclosed. At a point-of-sale, tire casings and tire treads that have been manufactured separately to enhance certain performance characteristics are assembled to provide a final customized tire. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130220516 | Underwater Pelletizing Method For Low Viscosity Hydrocarbon Resins - An underwater pelletizing method for pelletizing brittle hydrocarbon resins with low melt viscosity. A feed material comprising the hydrocarbon resin is formed into a melt, extruded through a die into a water bath below the Tg of the hydrocarbon resin to form a plurality of extrudates and cut adjacent the die surface to form a slurry of resin pellets. A graft monomer and/or other reactants, such as a hydrosilylation agent, may be introduced into the resin melt to chemically modify the hydrocarbon resin. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130220517 | Method for Producing a Raw Tire Blank, Comprising a Stitching Step - In the method for producing a green tire blank, at least one stitching roller is applied to the blank with the use of a resilient roller support, and during each rotation of the blank, a set value of a level of pressure of application of the roller against the blank is made to vary between at least two non-zero values. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130299066 | CAM SUPPORT FOR ASSEMBLING A GREEN TYRE BLANK - A support for assembling a green tyre blank includes a baseplate with symmetry of revolution and members fixed to the baseplate. Each of the members includes: a base structured such that external elements may be movably mounted with respect to the base; and at least one cam able to occupy any one of at least two positions that are images of one another through rotation. Each of the positions of the cam defines element positions with respect to the base, such that, for at least some of the elements, the element positions associated with the respective positions of the cam differ from one another. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130333824 | AUTOMATIC ZIPPER DEVICE FOR SHEET MEMBER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SHEET PRODUCT - An automatic zipper device having a pair of bevel gears for biting and joining joint end portions of a sheet member wound around a periphery of the molding drum and having a plurality of magnet attractive metallic cords, and the device is provided with an inclined portion following cylinder which is attached to a lateral movement device laterally moving on the molding drum so as to be laterally movable and which adjusts a height of the bevel gear in accordance with an inclined surface of the sheet member to be joined, a clamping cylinder for adjusting a bitten amount of the bevel gears, and introduction magnet rollers for taking in the sheet member, and a member contact position stabilizing magnet for maintaining a constant position of the sheet member so that the sheet member to be joined can be brought into contact with the bevel gear at a constant angle. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140020817 | NON-PNEUMATIC SURVIVABLE TIRE MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR CONVENTIONAL WHEELS - A method for fabrication of a non-pneumatic tire and wheel assembly incorporates a tire tread and a conventional vehicle wheel with an elastomer tire body element formed by introducing elastomer into mold elements with a center plug and releasably carried chamber forms to provide integral wall elements extending radially inward from the tire body element for sealing engagement with the wheel. The tire body element includes multiple concentric layers with alternating spokes formed with strut and aperture dimensions in the mold elements and mating rubber cast blocks adapted for the desired spoke design. After curing, the tire assembly is mounted on the conventional wheel with conventional mounting tools to deform the integral side walls and a pneumatic chamber formed by the side walls is inflated. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140130959 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TIRE CARCASS PLY - In the method for producing a tire carcass ply for a vehicle, the ply is wound onto a drum and contains reinforcements running in planes that are radial to an axis of the drum, of which:
| 05-15-2014 |
| 20140144573 | Silane-Functionalized Hydrocarbon Polymer Modifiers For Elastomeric Compositions - An elastomeric composition and method incorporating a hydrocarbon polymer modifier with improved permanence. The composition comprises elastomer, filler and silane-functionalized hydrocarbon polymer modifier (Si-HPM) adapted to couple the Si-HPM to the elastomer, filler or both, wherein the Si-HPM comprises an interpolymer of monomers chosen from piperylenes, cyclic pentadienes, aromatics, limonenes, pinenes, amylenes, and combinations thereof. The method comprises melt processing a mixture to form the elastomeric composition in the shape of an article, wherein the mixture comprises elastomer, Si-HPM, silica, bifunctional organosilane crosslinking agent; and curing the elastomeric composition to form the article. Also disclosed are a silylated hydrocarbon polymer modifier coupled with a bifunctional organosilane crosslinking agent, and a silica-coupled hydrocarbon polymer modifier coupled to the silica via the bifunctional organosilane crosslinking agent. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140144574 | METHOD, PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - In an apparatus for building tyres for vehicle wheels, a forming drum is loaded on a shuttle movable on a guide along a deposition line. The shuttle is moved on the guide in the two running directions to bring it to dispensing stations of semifinished products disposed in at least some deposition locations positioned in space succession along the deposition line. At each of the dispensing stations, at least one semifinished product is laid on a radially external surface to the forming drum carried by the shuttle for forming at least one component of a tyre. The shuttle is moved on the guide in a different sequence from the space succession of the deposition locations along the deposition line. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140158284 | AUTOCLAVE AND TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD - The invention provides an autoclave capable of creating a uniform temperature distribution inside a pressurized chamber and a method for manufacturing tires using the autoclave. The autoclave shaped as a cylindrical pressurized chamber has a heat source and a fan disposed on one end side thereof and ducts extending lengthwise on the inner peripheral wall surface thereof to discharge air blown by the fan to the other end side thereof. And the air outlets of the ducts are so designed as to discharge the air blown by the fan in a circumferential direction of the pressurized chamber. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140290833 | TIRE VULCANIZING PRESS COMPRISING INDUCTION HEATING MEANS - The curing press for a tire blank comprises:
| 10-02-2014 |
| 20140345783 | METHOD FOR MANAGING THE PRODUCTION CYCLE OF A PLANT IN A PROCESS FOR BUILDING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - A method and a plant for managing the production cycle of a plant for building tyres for vehicle wheels, wherein the plant provides for a storage region for anchoring annular structures and a plurality of processing stations at least one of which is associated with a forming drum, includes feeding a plurality of anchoring annular structures to the storage region, picking up the anchoring annular structures from the storage region at a predetermined picking-up position that does not change on changing of the types of the anchoring annular structures, and feeding the picked-up anchoring annular structures to the processing station associated with the forming drum. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150101737 | Device for Inserting a Wire Into a Tire - The needle ( | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150107756 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING STEERING WHEEL COVER - A manufacturing method for manufacturing a steering wheel cover is provided. At least one silicone rubber bar is provided. Two ends of the hollow silicone rubber bar are connected to form a close loop, wherein liquid silicone rubber is applied to a junction of the silicone rubber bar. Then, the hollow silicone rubber bar and the liquid silicone rubber are vulcanized to form the steering wheel cover. Therefore, the efficiency of producing the steering wheel cover is improved and the production costs are reduced. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150306833 | Band Drum Pop-Up Hinge - A tire building apparatus includes a tire building drum having a radially expanded position for building a tire carcass, and having a radially contracted position for releasing the tire carcass. A carcass release member is mounted on the drum such that the carcass release member moves from a retracted position when the drum is in its expanded position, to an extended position when the drum is in its contracted position, so that the carcass release member aids in releasing the tire carcass from the drum when the drum moves from its expanded position to its contracted position. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150343726 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR MANAGING GREEN TYRES - A plant for managing green tyres includes two building lines of green tyres, two storages and two curing lines, each including a plurality of curing moulds. Each storage is directly connected to a curing line, forming a respective assembly therewith. The two storages are operatively associated with each other by means of an exchange area including a station for processing green tyres. A control unit is programmed for detecting the availability of a curing mould; selecting, within any of the storage, a green tyre suitable for the available curing mould and transferring the selected green tyre to the available curing mould, possibly passing through the exchange area between the storages or through the exchange area between the curing lines. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160082682 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN AIR MAINTENANCE TIRE - Apparatus and method for manufacturing an air maintenance tire includes an air pumping tube assembly station constructing an air pumping tube sub-assembly, a tire preparation station for modifying a cured tire to accept the air pumping tube sub-assembly, an air pumping tube sub-assembly installation station and a pressure regulator installation station. The air pumping tube sub-assembly inserts into an elongate tire groove opening, facilitated by groove-spreading apparatus. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160159021 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FEEDING A PLURALITY OF TREAD BANDS IN A PROCESS FOR BUILDING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - A method and apparatus for feeding a plurality of tread bands in a process for building tyres for vehicle wheels. Each tread band initially includes, on a side thereof, a service fabric. The tread bands are initially arranged at different heights. The method includes positioning a first auxiliary conveyor belt of an auxiliary collection device including a plurality of juxtaposed auxiliary conveyor belts at a first height corresponding to the height of a first tread band, then, proceeding with the removal of the service fabric from the first tread band while the first tread band is transferred onto the first auxiliary conveyor belt. The method also includes positioning at least one second auxiliary conveyor belt of the auxiliary collection device at at least one second height corresponding to that of at least one second tread band. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160159023 | DRUM FOR PRODUCING A TIRE, PROVIDED WITH RETRACTABLE SECTORS - A drum for building a green tire casing having:
| 06-09-2016 |
| 20160167327 | DRUM FOR PRODUCING A TIRE, PROVIDED WITH MOBILE SECTORS | 06-16-2016 |
| 20190143617 | Method for Manufacturing a Volume Element Inflatable With a Gas, In Particular a Water Sports Equipment | 05-16-2019 |
