Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Isao Nomizu

Hirato Shimasaki

Masami Adachi

Taketo Matsuzaki

An adhesive compound coating apparatus for coating an adhesive compound on leading and trailing beveled end faces of a rubber strip material, comprising: a conveyor unit for conveying the strip material in its longitudinal direction; a coating roller disposed to have a center axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the strip material and rotatable about its center axis with respect to the conveyor unit, the coating roller being movable with respect to the conveyor unit between a first position having the center axis of the coating roller positioned below the upper surface of the conveyor unit and a second position having the peripheral surface of the coating roller positioned above the upper surface of the conveyor unit; a drive unit for driving the coating roller to rotate about its center axis; an adhesive compound supplying unit for supplying and applying the adhesive compound on the peripheral surface of the coating roller; a detecting unit operative to detect the positions of the strip material conveyed by the conveyor unit and produce output signals; and a control unit responsive to the output signals delivered from the detecting unit and operative to move the coating roller between the first and second positions.

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Kaminokawa, Japan

Isao Nomizu