Patents by Inventor Thomas Eugene Brown

Thomas Eugene Brown has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for building and transferring a tread belt structure
    Patent number: 7896993
    Abstract: The method of building and transferring a tread belt structure on a portable and collapsible building drum 10 mounted coaxially on a building machine 100 with a rotatable shaft 120 is disclosed. The method includes the steps of forming the annular tread belt 4 on the building drum 10, transferring the building drum 10 with the tread belt 4 from the rotatable shaft 120 onto a pivoting transfer device 200, pivoting the transfer device 200 about 90° rendering the tread belt 4 and axis of the building drum 10 perpendicular to a horizontal plane, collapsing the building drum 10, separating the annular tread belt 4 from the building drum 10, removing the tread belt 4, expanding the tire building drum 10, pivoting the building drum 10 into coaxial alignment with the rotatable shaft 120, moving the building drum 10 onto the shaft 120. The tread belt 4 has one or more elastomeric components applied while hot and the equipment provides means for weighing the tread belt 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Albert James Yovichin, Robert Albert Lammlein, Jr., Thomas John Rood, George Michael Stoila, James Alfred Benzing, II, Thomas Eugene Brown, Ronald Paul Homolak
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUILDING AND TRANSFERRING A TREAD BELT STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20080110547
    Abstract: The method of building and transferring a tread belt structure on a portable and collapsible building drum 10 mounted coaxially on a building machine 100 with a rotatable shaft 120 is disclosed. The method includes the steps of forming the annular tread belt 4 on the building drum 10, transferring the building drum 10 with the tread belt 4 from the rotatable shaft 120 onto a pivoting transfer device 200, pivoting the transfer device 200 about 90° rendering the tread belt 4 and axis of the building drum 10 perpendicular to a horizontal plane, collapsing the building drum 10, separating the annular tread belt 4 from the building drum 10, removing the tread belt 4, expanding the tire building drum 10, pivoting the building drum 10 into coaxial alignment with the rotatable shaft 120, moving the building drum 10 onto the shaft 120. The tread belt 4 has one or more elastomeric components applied while hot and the equipment provides means for weighing the tread belt 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Albert James Yovichin, Robert Albert Lammlein, Thomas John Rood, George Michael Stoila, James Alfred Benzing, Thomas Eugene Brown, Ronald Paul Homolak