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The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Eugene Andrew Bator

Andres Ignacio Delgado

Disclosed is a machine for rotation of the bead area of a green tire so that the bead areas are parallel and concentric in order to remove potential anomalies that can occur to a green tire bead portion during pre-cure handling, storing or during shaping in the tire press. The tire apparatus orients the beads of the green tire parallel and square to one another and also rotates the bead area of the tire into the proper configuration prior to cure. The bead portions of the tire maintain the parallel position as the tire is loaded into a tire mold. Also disclosed is a tire loader that has a bead support ring and paddles to grip the outer crown portion of the tire.

Tire bead area rotation apparatus

A portable tree stand is provided for use by a person to climb to and descend from an elevated position next to an upright object. The stand comprises a pole, a clamping assembly attached to the pole near its top end for securing the pole to the upright object, a device on the bottom end of the pole for anchoring it to the ground and upper and lower foot supports for use by the person to climb and descend the pole. Each foot support is slidably mounted on the pole but has a friction device that locks the foot support in a fixed position on the pole in response to a downwardly applied force.

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Diamond, OH, United States of America

Eugene Andrew Bator