Patents Represented by Attorney Richard B. O'Planick

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  • Tire building core manipulator apparatus
    Patent number: 7891962
    Abstract: A tire building core manipulating apparatus for a segmented tire building core is provided, the core including a plurality of core segments extending generally radially from a central axis. The manipulating apparatus includes a support frame; a core latching mechanism mounted to the support frame for operatively engaging a mating mechanism on the core whereby suspending the tire building core in a preferred axial orientation and raises and lowers the core to engage one or more stations in a tire curing line. A transport mechanism relocates the support frame with the tire building core in the preferred axial orientation between a plurality of stations in the tire curing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: William Dudley Currie, Dennis Alan Lundell, David Alan Henthorne, Mary Beth Dombrosky
  • Tire building core
    Patent number: 7887312
    Abstract: A tire building core assembly is provided including a segmented toroidal core formed by a plurality of core segments configured in a closely adjacent array defining an outer tire-building toroidal surface. The tire building surface is configured having tire tread and sidewall build locations. Adjacent core segments provide adjacent and opposed annularly directed peripheral edge surfaces, opposed edge surfaces having interlocking elements that selectively engage to operatively deter relative radial movement between the adjacent core segments. The interlocking elements selectively disengage to operatively facilitate a disassembly of the segmented toroidal core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Dennis Alan Lundell
  • Tire building core segment manipulator apparatus
    Patent number: 7874822
    Abstract: A core segment manipulating apparatus and method is provided for relocating core segments forming a toroidally shaped core body configured to carry a cured tire. The apparatus includes multiple core key segment engaging mechanisms and core second segment engagement mechanisms arranged in a spaced apart circular array adjacent to respective key segments and second segments of the core body. The key segment and second segment engaging mechanisms operate to individually move respective key segments and second segments from a radially outward core body position to a radially inward segment removal position. The key segment and second segment engaging mechanisms transfer a respective segment to a segment removal device at the segment removal position and return radially outward to a segment-receiving location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: William Dudley Currie, Dennis Alan Lundell, David Alan Henthorne, Mary Beth Dombrosky
  • Tire building core assembly and disassembly station
    Patent number: 7854603
    Abstract: A station apparatus method within a tire curing line is provided for assembling and disassembling a toroidally shaped core configured to carry a cured tire. The core includes a plurality of core segments assembling to form a core body and extending generally radially from a central core axis within a core central axial passage. The core further includes first and second locking spindle sections connecting to opposite sides of the core body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: William Dudley Currie, Dennis Alan Lundell, David Alan Henthorne, Mary Beth Dombrosky
  • Tire
    Patent number: D627710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Christophe Rodicq, Murat Ahmet Yasar Susutoglu
  • Tire sidewall
    Patent number: D627715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Dale Edward Umstot, Delwyn Lovell Harvey
  • Tire sidewall
    Patent number: D627716
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Delwyn Lovell Harvey, Dale Edward Umstot
  • Tire
    Patent number: D628952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: William Urbano Villamizar, Bernard Jean Francois Croissant, Manfred Josef Jung, Matthieu Pingenat, Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Alexander Ossipov, Nicolas Claude Jean-Claude Froger, Richard Heinen
  • Tire
    Patent number: D628955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Nizar Toumni, Phuoc Thuan Le, Jacques Collette
  • Tire
    Patent number: D628956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Joseph Thomas Janesh, Brandon Jeffrey Gramoll, Max Harold Dixon
  • Tire sidewall
    Patent number: D628959
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Delwyn Lovell Harvey
  • Tire
    Patent number: D629740
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Malcolm Jeremy Board
  • Tire
    Patent number: D629741
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Malcolm Jeremy Board, Christopher John Valentine
  • Tire
    Patent number: D629742
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Malcolm Jeremy Board, Christopher John Valentine
  • Tire
    Patent number: D629744
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Dale Edward Umstot, Delwyn Lovell Harvey, Ashley Amanda Strader, John Kotanides, Jr.
  • Tire sidewall
    Patent number: D629745
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Jonathan James Shondel
  • Tire
    Patent number: D630160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Malcolm Jeremy Board
  • Tire
    Patent number: D630998
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Daniel Ray Beha, Eric Jon Berryman, John Joseph Kantura, III
  • Tire
    Patent number: D631001
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Shannon Joseph Hughes, Michael Stefan Skurich, Jung Wan Cho, Ralph Edward Okonieski, Nathan Andrew Hunt
  • Tire
    Patent number: D631002
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Cazin-Bourguignon, Jean-Michel Alphonse Fernand Gillard