Abstract: A segmented mold for molding tire casings has a fixed lower mold part for molding one side wall of the tire, a series of molding segments for molding the tread movably mounted on the lower mold part to be slidable and swingable along radial planes, an axially movable upper mold part for molding the other side wall of the tire, and means cooperating with the segments to effect the movement thereof along the radial planes. The mold also has elastic members interposed between the fixed lower mold part and the segments for continously urging each of said segments toward an open position in which the segments are radially retracted and swung upward and to the outside of the mold to free a passage for the tire when the upper mold part is lifted off. These members include a first spring for pulling each segment radially outward and a second spring for tilting each segment vertically upward toward an open position.

Abstract: Sectional molds for tires wherein radially movable sectors are mounted in a permanent way on a fixed lower casing of the mold in such a way that the sections do not have to be lifted and pulled up with a movable upper platform, when the press of the mold is opening. The sectors are connected to the lower casing which supports them by connecting means such as linked struts that are operatively associated with the sectors, at the beginning of the opening of the mold, having at the same time a slight lifting movement parallel to the lower casing and a slight radial backward movement assuring the detachment of the sectors with respect to the tread of the molded tire.