Abstract: A tire vulcanizing machine has a tire receiving position, tire supplying position, tire vulcanizing position, and tire removing position. A receiving table receives a green tire and provides the tire to a tire supplying device. The tire supplying device positions the tire on a lower die and an upper die closes. The dies vulcanize and mold the green tire therebetween. A removing device transfers the vulcanized tire to a cooling device and ejects the cooled tire to a transfer conveyor. The receiving table, lower die and removing device are joined to each other and make a reciprocating movement at the same time at their set positions along with a transfer unit.

Abstract: This vulcanizing equipment comprises a vulcanizing station, an opening and closing station and a transfer station. The vulcanizing station has a housing shelf vertically having plural stages of placing parts for placing tire mold assemblies movable in closed state, which have pipings for supplying and discharging a vulcanizing/heating medium to the tire mold assemblies placed thereon. The opening and closing station has a placing part for placing the tire mold assembly, an opening and closing device for opening and closing the tire mold assembly placed on this placing part, a carrying-out device for carrying vulcanized tires from the tire mold assembly, and a carrying-in device for carrying unvulcanized tires to the tire mold assembly. The transfer station performs the transfer of the tire mold assembly between an optional stage of the placing parts of the housing shelf and the placing part of the opening and closing station by the rising and falling action along the housing shelf of the vulcanizing station.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tire vulcanizing method for, using a bladder and a tire vulcanizing press, applying preheating and shaping to a green tire externally of the vulcanizing press, subsequently, applying vulcanizing and molding to the entire tire preheated by said vulcanizing press, whereby the time for restricting the tire by the tire vulcanizing press can be shortened, and the cycle time of the tire vulcanizing and molding can be shortened to improve the productivity.

Abstract: This invention relates to a tire curing system (10) having a plurality of molds disposed in side by side relation, transporting means (91) for transporting green tires (20) to the tire curing system, loading means (71) for loading a green tire (20) into a bottom mold half (14) of one of the molds, mold closing means (34) for closing a top mold half (13) over the bottom mold half (14), self-locking means (15) for locking the top mold half to the bottom mold half, curing means (18) for curing the green tires, mold opening means (35) for opening the top mold half from the bottom mold half, unloading means (72) for unloading the cured tire (22) from the bottom mold half (14) and take-away means (17) for carrying the cured tires (22) away from the curing system (10). The loading means (71) and the unloading means (72) include a movable robot (40) and the mold closing means (34) and the mold opening means (35) include a movable manipulator (30). The robot and the manipulator move in straight lines.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for molding a tire (110) with a radially expandable bead molding ring (252). When expanded, the bead molding ring has a circumferentially continuous radially outward-facing surface (259) for molding the bead. The bead molding ring comprises a plurality of segments (254, 256), half of the segments being first segments (254) that are complementary to, and circumferentially alternated with second segments (256). The first segments are wedge shaped, having circumferentially lateral faces (255) that converge towards the radially outward-facing bead molding surface of the bead molding ring, the first segment lateral faces being planar and oriented in the axial direction; and the second segments have lateral faces (257) that are complementary to the first segment lateral faces, such that radially outward movement of the first segments (254) causes radially outward movement of the second segments (256). Guide rods (260) restrict first and second segments to radial movement (310) only.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizer comprising a vulcanizing/molding unit which is provided with a mold removably and which vulcanizes and molds a green tire within the mold into a vulcanized tire, a feed system for feeding the green tire to the vulcanizing/molding unit, and a discharge system for discharging the vulcanized tire from the vulcanizing/molding unit, the feed system and the discharge system being located on a front side of the tire vulcanizer. A vulcanizing line is formed by arranging a plurality of such tire vulcanizers side by side so that the respective one sides lie on the same side. It is possible to complete the mold replacing work in a short and thereby improve the productivity.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing machine to enhance operation significantly by performing separate processes at the same time on the multiple green tires or vulcanized tires.

Abstract: A device for the substantially vertical suspension of tire carcasses which includes a plurality of supports arranged about a lifting axis (XX′), which supports bear on the inside of a tire carcass, the supports being mobile radially relative to the lifting axis, the device further including a system having at least one spring which exerts a radial expansion force on the supports, this expansion being limited by a stop. The invention also relates to a process for building a tire in using this device.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing machine has a tire receiving position, tire supplying position, tire vulcanizing position, and tire removing position. A receiving table receives a green tire and provides the tire to a tire supplying device. The tire supplying device positions the tire on a lower die and an upper die closes. The dies vulcanize and mold the green tire therebetween. A removing device transfers the vulcanized tire to a cooling device and ejects the cooled tire to a transfer conveyor. The receiving table, lower die and removing device are joined to each other and make a reciprocating movement at the same time at their set positions along with a transfer unit.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing system has a mold assembly M for vulcanizing a tire, which has a bladder assembly M300 which is supplied with a heating/pressurizing medium, a heating chamber C1a at the outer peripheral portion of a tire mold C, and upper and lower heating plates M100A and M200A of the tire mold, and is configured movably and so as to be capable of overcoming a force to open the mold by means of the pressure in a bladder BL; a plurality of mold opening/closing and vulcanizing stations 300 each of which receives the mold assembly M and opens and closes the same, and has a vulcanized tire unloader 302, a green tire loader 301, and a bladder operating/driving device 314; a changing/preheating station 200 which performs the change and preheating of the tire mold C incorporated in the mold assembly M and a bladder assembly 300; and mold transportation apparatus 100 which reciprocates between these two stations 300 and 200 to transport the mold assembly M.

Abstract: There is provided a tire vulcanizing system which can easily be arranged in an existing tire factory. The present invention provides a tire vulcanizing system having a vulcanizing station 100 for mounting a plurality of sets of tire mold assemblies M on a flat surface of a predetermined height and a tire mold opening/closing station 200 formed along the vulcanizing station 100, in which a tire mold opening/closing device 210, which takes out the tire mold assembly M from the vulcanizing station 100, and opens and closes the tire mold assembly M, is provided at the tire mold opening/closing station 200, and the tire mold opening/closing device 210 is provided with an upper movable plate 206 capable of elevating an upper mold Ma of the tire mold assembly M by connecting with the upper mold Ma, a horizontal transfer device 215 for transferring the tire mold assembly M on the same level as the height of the flat surface, and a lower fixed plate 211 capable of fixing a lower mold Mb of the tire mold assembly M.

Abstract: A recapping shop concluding a plurality of work stations for preparing tires to be recapped, an autoclave having a horizontal axis for vulcanizing the new treads, a first transport system for transferring the tires between the various stations and for storing them and a second transport system for transferring the tires into the autoclave, out of it and for storing them, characterized in that the first and second transport systems have a common transfer and storage structure.

Abstract: A bladder removing apparatus for a tire vulcanizer having a movable boom swiveled on a horizontally movable platform with a flexible connecting member carried by the boom for attachment to the bladder, whereby the platform is moveable and the boom is swingable into a centered position of the bladder, upon lifting of said bladder.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing system of the present invention comprises a plurality of rows of tire vulcanizing stations which contain a plurality of sets of movable tire mold assemblies to vulcanize a tire; a mold opening/closing station which is disposed at the tire vulcanizing stations to receive the tire mold assembly to open and close a tire mold, by which a vulcanized tire is removed and a green tire is inserted; and a first mold transporting device and a second mold transporting device which are disposed between the mold opening/closing station and the tire vulcanizing stations to transport the tire mold assembly.

Abstract: An automated conveyance system moves green tires (24) with monorail carriers (18) to tire molding presses (40). Each monorail carrier (18) deposits a green tire (24) into an elevator system (31) which, in turn, transfers the green tire to within reach of a press loader (38) for tire press (40). The elevator system (31) also provides a buffer storage for the tires in process. In one embodiment, the green tire in the basket (28) is rotated about a vertical path through which the basket moves to within reach of the press loader. In another embodiment, the elevator system (31) can move the green tire by linear translation from the vertical path through which the basket moves to within reach of the loader (38).

Abstract: Apparatus for manipulating a bladder (25) relative to a tire (B) in a tire curing press (11) including, a lower plate ring (31) for carrying a lower bead (26) of the bladder, an upper plate ring (50) for carrying an upper bead (27) of the bladder, a first cylinder mechanism (35) for selectively moving the lower plate ring and the upper plate ring, a piston rod (56) attached to the upper plate ring and extending through the lower plate ring, a second cylinder mechanism (55) located within the first cylinder mechanism for selectively actuating the piston rod to move the upper plate ring relative to the lower plate ring, a stretch-height control mechanism (57) for controlling the position of the upper plate ring relative to the lower plate ring upon actuation of the second cylinder, and a bladder detector mechanism (110) for positioning the upper plate ring at a predetermined position relative to a tire in the tire curing press.

Abstract: A tread for a tire having, on at least one lateral part, and radially to the inside of the running surface of said tread, a plurality of cavities oriented virtually transversely and opening onto at least one of the edges of the tread, the cavities being intended to form grooves and incisions opening radially towards the outside of the tread after wear of between 15% and 45% of the thickness of the tread when new. Also, a mold adapted for the molding of such a tread pattern and including, on at least one part molding one of the sidewalls, elements in relief for molding cavities radially beneath the running surface of a tread when new.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizer according to this invention comprises a swing loader for turning and carrying a vulcanized tire or cooled tire between a tire vulcanizing press and a post-cure inflator. The discharge position of the cooled vulcanized tire to a discharge conveyor is arranged within the rotating track of the swing loader between the tire vulcanizing press and the post-cure inflator, so that the discharge conveyor receives the cooled tire carried from the swing loader and discharges it to a carrying-out conveyor juxtaposed in the rear of the post-cure inflator.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tire vulcanizing equipment capable of improving the production cycle by miniaturization of idle time of each device and shortening of carrying time, reducing the cost by simplification of the device and space saving, and smoothing the physical distribution line. This vulcanizing equipment comprises vulcanizing stations C consisting of the arrangement of a plurality of mold bases 2 having pipings for supplying and discharging a vulcanization medium to tire mold assemblies 1 placed thereon; an opening and closing station A having an opening and closing device 6 for opening and closing the moving mold 1, a loader 7, and an unloader 8; and a transfer station D having a transfer device for transferring the tire mold assembly 1. The vulcanizing stations C and the opening and closing station A are arranged circularly around the transfer station D.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizer in accordance with the present invention comprises a fixed base on which tire vulcanization molds are mounted, a movable frame which can reciprocate in the longitudinal direction on the fixed base, and an elevating frame attached to the movable frame so as to be raised and lowered. After the tire vulcanization mold is opened by raising the elevating frame and lifting an upper half mold of the tire vulcanization mold, the upper half mold of the tire vulcanization mold is moved to the rear by the movable frame to carry out the removal of a vulcanized tire and the supply of a green tire.

Abstract: A tire withdrawing device for removing a tire from a mold chamber includes two rotatable blades. The blades are mounted on pins which are rotatable in bushings. Arms mounted on the pins are connected to a linear motor to rotate the blades for grasping of a finish tire during removal. The withdrawing device is use to grasp the tire as it is moved from the mold onto a conveying device for transporting the tire away from the mold.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for automatically spraying a mist of mold release into the confined space between a tire and an inflatable bladder in a tire molding machine so that the mold release covers the outer surface of the inflatable bladder and/or the interior surface of the tire and does not get onto the walls of the mold. In addition, bladder release is pre-sprayed onto the interior surface of the green tire prior to posititoning the green tire within the tire mold.

Abstract: A process for vulcanizing tires in an automatically actuatable curing press, which has a vulcanization mold of two or more parts that can be opened and closed and has bead rings for positioning and shaping the tire beads, wherein the bead rings can be moved via actuation mechanisms in the axial direction with regard to the tire position in the curing press. A loading device takes the tire to be vulcanized and positions the tire on the lower bead ring. The press/mold/tire system is sealed inside the bead rings by the curing mold and/or the press and is sealed outside the bead rings by the tire. The automatically actuatable curing press, which is for vehicle tires, has a vulcanization mold of two or more parts that can be opened and closed, and has mold segments, side shells, and bead rings for positioning and shaping the tire beads of the tire. A loading device is provided for taking the tire to be vulcanized and positioning it on the lower bead ring.

Abstract: A plurality of green tire storage tables and a green tire loading/unloading apparatus for transferring a green tire on the green tire carrier onto the green tire storage table are provided between a green tire loader at the mold opening/closing station and a plurality of green tire carriers, at least one green tire storage table of the green tire storage tables is a movable green tire storage table, the movable green tire storage table being capable of reciprocating between a first position where a green tire is received by using the green tire loading/unloading apparatus and a second position where a green tire is delivered to the green tire loader, the green tire loading/unloading apparatus can travel between the plural green tire carriers and the plural green tire storage tables, the green tire held horizontally on the movable green tire storage table or by the green tire loading/unloading apparatus is turned so that the positioning control of green tire can be carried out, and the green tire type mark att

Abstract: The present invention proposes a machine for the manufacture of tires on a core 1 which is used for the manufacture of sa8d tires from the start of the assembling until the vulcanizing. The machine comprises, arranged adjacent to each other on a frame 5, a tire assembly station 2 comprising means for forming the raw tire by depositing the different compounds on the core 1 in the order and place required by the architecture of the tire, a vulcanization station 3, and a support handling station 4, as well as a crane 7 for transporting the core 1 between the different stations.

Abstract: A center mechanism of a tire vulcanizer in accordance with the present invention has an upper clamp ring for holding the upper opening end of a bladder, a lower clamp ring for holding the lower opening end of the bladder, a lower ring on the lower mold side supporting the lower clamp ring, a spacer installed to the lower ring and having a ventilating portion, and a center post elevating cylinder installed to the spacer. The extending portion of piston rod of the center post elevating cylinder is made a center post, the center post is inserted, in such a manner as to be movable vertically, into a through hole formed in the center of the lower ring and the lower clamp ring, and the upper clamp ring is fixed to the upper end portion of center post protruding upward from the through hole of the lower clamp ring.

Abstract: A pallet for raw cover tire has a circular bottom plate, and a supporting portion provided to a periphery of the bottom plate and supporting one of outer side surfaces of side walls of a raw cover tire. The supporting portion has a first receiving surface of a cone form inclining downwardly toward the bottom plate at an angle .alpha. to the bottom plate, and a second receiving surface of a cone form extending upwardly from an upper edge of the first receiving surface at an angle .beta. smaller than the angle .alpha..

Abstract: A tire-handling apparatus is provided for moving a tire into and out of a tire processor, such as a tire-curing press. The apparatus utilizes tire-gripping members, such as a plurality of shoes, which may be moved between an extended and a retracted position for gripping and releasing the tire respectively. Also included are operating members for properly operating the gripping members between their respective positions. The operating apparatus includes at least two cylinders having piston rods extending from first ends thereof. The second ends of the cylinders are mounted in series to permit the shoes for mounting the tire to be easily extended and retracted without substantial tire deformation, regardless of the size of the tire.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing system includes a vulcanizing station in which a plurality of sets of tire molds for vulcanization are arranged; a mold opening/closing station having a mold opening/closing device for opening/closing the tire mold, a loader for inserting an unvulcanized tire into the tire mold, and an unloader for removing a vulcanized tire from the tire mold; and a transferring device for transferring a tire mold between the vulcanizing station and the mold opening/closing station.

Abstract: A method of loading a green tire on a bladderless tire vulcanizer of the inside gripping type and an apparatus thereof, in which both bead portions of the green tire can be inserted into respective bead rings of a mold accurately and reliably.

Abstract: It is the object of the present invention to firstly provide a loading system and loading method of high working efficiency, and secondly, to provide a loading system and method in which a high precision of loading onto a center mold can be regularly assured without the need for repeated correction checks. The loading system includes a transport car 2 movable along a plurality of tire vulcanizing presses 1 arranged in a line; a robot arm 3 mounted on said transport car 2 for movement in three XYZ dimensions to a prescribed position in a desired stance; and a green tire chuck 6 fixed to the end of said robot arm 3. A load method essentially comprises the steps of picking-up, transportation, loading and chucking during shaping, of a green tire largely through movement of the robot arm of said system.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing system capable of performing high accuracy transportation of a green tire by a loader and of performing high accuracy transportation of a vulcanized tire by an unloader including a group of tire vulcanizing presses having many tire vulcanizing presses 1 arranged in a row and manipulators 2 arranged along the group of the tire vulcanizing presses in such a way that they may freely run. The tire vulcanizing presses 1 are constructed such that the upper and lower molds 80, 81 are stored between the engaging or disengaging upper and lower press members in such a manner that they may be fastened with the green tire mounting table 7 and the post-cure inflator 8 arranged around them.

Abstract: A loader basket (20) for gripping, transporting, and precisely positioning a tire (T), including a framework (21) having a spider (30) with a plurality of radially extending arms (33), a plurality of shoes (40) mounted for radial movement on the arms, a spine plate (41) on each of the shoes for engaging the tire, an actuating assembly (60) for moving the shoes radially inwardly and outwardly on the arms, individually adjustable stop assemblies (70) on each of the arms limiting the extent of radially outward movement of each of the shoes, and a synchronizing mechanism (90) mechanically interconnecting the stop assemblies for uniformly simultaneously adjusting the extent of radial outward movement of each of the shoes.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing system comprising (a) a tire vulcanizing press having a plurality of molding stations (b) a tire loader for loading tires onto the molding stations and (c) a tire unloader for unloading tires off of the molding stations, wherein the tire vulcanizing press comprises a fixed frame upon which the fixed molds of each molding station are mounted, a displaceable frame upon which the displaceable molds of each molding station are mounted, a tie-rod arranged between the molding stations and connecting the fixed frame to the displaceable frame, lifting cylinder for vertically displacing the displaceable frame along the tie-rod with respect to the fixed frame, half blocks for securing when necessary the displaceable frame to the tie-rod, thereby securing the displaceable frame to the fixed frame, and clamping means for forcibly clamping said displaceable molds to said fixed molds during tire vulcanization.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizer is provided with a vulcanizing station where tire vulcanizing molds are arranged to perform vulcanization. The tire vulcanizer also includes a mold opening/closing station where, after the tire vulcanizing mold is opened, a vulcanized tire is taken out from the inside of the tire vulcanizing mold, and then an unvulcanized tire to be succeedingly vulcanized is inserted into the inside of the tire vulcanizing mold so as to be shaped before the tire vulcanizing mold is closed. Also, a mold carrier truck is provided which is movable between the vulcanizing mold and the mold opening/closing station. An unvulcanized tire storage section is disposed above each of the tire vulcanizing molds in the vulcanizing station.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing apparatus has a mold body divided into a first mold portion and a second mold portion by a line perpendicular to an axis of a tire. The apparatus includes a device for opening or closing the mold body to mount the tire on the mold body and remove the tire from the mold body. A heat pressure medium is supplied into the tire mounted on the mold body in a vulcanizing station to vulcanize the tire. The mold body is arranged to receive and vertically hold the tire therein. A plurality of vulcanizers are disposed side by side in the vulcanizing station to vulcanize the tire. Each vulcanizer detachably accommodates the mold body. The vulcanizer supplies the heat pressure medium into the tire held in the mold body. The device is movable to positions respectively opposite to the vulcanizers. The mold body is movable between the device and the vulcanizer opposite to the device.

Abstract: A loader and an unloader include a tire grip whose height is adjustable by way of a link portion. The tire grip is mounted at the tip of a boom that freely swivels, freely moves up and down and faces molds. More specifically, in the link portion between the tire grip and the boom that moves up and down and swivels freely between the inner side and outer side of a tire vulcanizer, a screw structure is provided to screw an external thread member affixed to the boom into an internal thread formed at the end of the tire grip, and the height of the tire grip can therefore easily be adjusted by rotating the external thread member.

Abstract: A conveyor system that performs a conveyance by using pallets for loading green tires and device for conveying these pallets, installs a storage area for storing pallets as they are on the way to convey, and uses robots for transferring the green tires from a pallet to a tire vulcanizer. Pallets being of such a type as to be able to load two or more green tires for planar placement and a conveyor devise is desired to be able to get under these pallets for lifting up. Furthermore, a visual sensor provided on a robot reads at least one of a mark concerning the specification of a green tire, a mark for its positioning on a pallet, and a mark for its positioning on a tire vulcanizer, identifies a green tire to be conveyed, and automatically performs a positioning in transferring the green tire from the relevant pallet and a positioning in transferring the green tire to a tire vulcanizer in the conveyor system.

Abstract: A tire vulcanization apparatus in which an encaser 3 makes it possible to introduce a tire into a mold 1 and, by means of inductors 42, transfers to the mold heat energy necessary for vulcanization and in which a chamber 5 receives several molds 1 and makes it possible to maintain each mold insulated from the environment in order to limit heat losses during the time necessary for the vulcanization.

Abstract: A method of loading a green tire on a bladderless tire vulcanizer of the inside gripping type and an apparatus thereof, in which both bead portions of the green tire can be inserted into respective bead rings of a mold accurately and reliably.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for automatically spraying a mist of mold release into the space between a tire and a bladder in a tire molding machine so that the mold release covers the outer surface of the bladder or the interior surface of the tire and does not get onto the walls of the mold.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing press of the present invention uses a split die device having an upper disk to which an upper die portion for molding the tire side is attached, a lower disk to which a lower die portion for molding the tire side is attached, divided segments to which a split tread die portion for molding the tire tread is attached, and an outer ring which has an inner inclined surface corresponding to the outer inclined surface of the segment and are slidably engaged with the outer inclined surface. Each of the divided segments has protrusions at the upper part and the lower part so that outward forces applied to the die portions during vulcanization are received by the protrusions of the segments.

Abstract: An operating mechanism for tire press that includes upper and lower sidewall molds and a segmented tread mold assembly for forming the tread portion of a tire. The sidewall molds and tread mold assembly define a molding cavity with a central vertical axis. The press may be operated to move the upper sidewall mold together with the tread mold assembly upwardly and laterally away from the vertical axis to permit loading of an uncured tire carcass in the lower sidewall mold section and for removing a cured tire from the upper sidewall mold section. The operating mechanism or center mechanism includes a bearing sleeve, coaxial with the central axis and mounted on the mold carrier beam for the press. An outer tubular sleeve is slidably received in the bearing sleeve and extends there-through so that the lower end may be operatively connected to the tread mold assembly for operating the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a precured retreaded tire, etc., and the purpose of the invention is to produce the tire with saving space and power. Here, a precured retreated tire means a tire made by linking a plate rubber member, which has been vulcanized and molded so as to form tire grooves in advance, to a circumferential surface of a buffed abraded tire without vulcanizing said plate rubber member. A producing method according to the present invention comprises a step to insert a bladder (30) into a tire (T), a step to closely connect a plate of once vulcanized rubber member (T1) to a circumferential face of a buffed tire with an unvulcanized linking rubber (R) placed therebetween by attaching an envelope (48) to an outer circumferential face of the tire with fluid pressure, and a step to vulcanize the linking rubber by a heating device (46) and integrally combine the plate rubber member to the circumferential face of the tire, in order.

Abstract: Separable upper and lower rims of a post-cure tire inflator requiring no upper rim replacing operation which requires much time and labor especially when mounting the upper rim, and also no time and labor for holding a lower rim upward when mounting. In the upper and lower rim for holding the bead section of the tire, a high-pressure air is filled in a cured tire discharged from a tire curing press to thereby inflate and cool the tire; therefore at least the upper rim has stairway-like steps having two or more outer diameters fit to the bead diameters of tires of different sizes and formed by extending a small outer diameter on a large outer diameter.

Abstract: A tire mold having an upper mold section and a lower mold section with mold segments mounted for sliding movement radially and axially between molding positions and unloading positions of the tire. Springs are provided between the mold segments and the mold sections for urging movement of the mold segments into molding positions and permitting movement of the mold segments into unloading positions for releasing the tread portion of the tire so that it will not be damaged upon opening of the mold.

Abstract: A tire loader basket assembly for a tire press includes a frame; a plurality of loader shoes mounted for radial movement on the frame; an adjusting plate mounted for rotation with respect to the frame and connected to each of the shoes by a respective link such that rotation of the adjusting plate causes radial movement of the shoes; an actuating plate mounted for rotation with respect to the frame by operation of an actuating means connected to the actuating plate; and means for releasably connecting the adjusting and actuating plates together so that when the plates are connected, they rotate together by operation of the actuating means, and when the plates are unconnected, the adjusting plate can be rotated to set a movement limit for the shoes.

Abstract: A bladder carrying apparatus for a tire vulcanizing press by which a bladder assembly can be carried readily and rapidly onto and off of a center mechanism is disclosed. The bladder carrying apparatus includes an arm mounted on a chuck of a loader, which is mounted for upward and downward movement and also for turning movement for seating a green tire onto a lower metal mold of the tire vulcanizing press preferably mounted, for rotation motion between a center position on the center of the chuck and a retracted position outside of the perimeter of the loader, and a latch mounted on the arm for gripping an upper portion of a bladder assembly on a center mechanism of the tire vulcanizing press.

Abstract: A method of producing a spliceless annular tread cap (2), whereby a portion (23) of an extruded tube (21) of green elastomeric material is fed inside an annular body (8), the inner annular surface (17) of which presents a diameter approximately equal to but no smaller than the outside diameter of the tubular portion (23), and negatively reproduces the pattern of the finished tread cap (2). The tubular portion (23) is expanded and calendered against the inner surface (17) of the annular body (8) by means of a roller (34) moved into a position coplanar with and eccentric in relation to the annular body (8).

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing machine includes a bladder; an upper clamping ring for holding the upper end of the bladder; an upper clamping ring for holding the upper end of the bladder; a first lifting mechanism for vertically moving the lower clamping ring; a second lifting mechanism for vertically moving the upper clamping ring; a loader for holding a green tire so as to surround the bladder extended between the upper and lower clamping rings with the horizontal center plane of the green tire in coincidence with the middle point between the upper and lower ends of the bladder; a third lifting mechanism for vertically moving the loader; and a controller for controlling the operation of the first, second and third lifting mechanisms.