The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Kristian Daniel Johnson

Dennis Alan Lundell

George Michael Stoila

Douglas Raymond Weaver

Michael James Hogan

Kenneth Dean Conger

Richard David Vargo

Frank Anthony Kmiecik

Minwu Yao

Mark John Montgomery

Pablo Rafael Morales

Andrew Robert Ondo

John Edward Anderson

The invention is directed to a center deck assembly for a tire building drum. The tire building drum is rotatably mounted on a central drive shaft and includes a center section. The center deck assembly is disposed in the center section of the drum and includes a hub that seats on and is secured to the central drive shaft. At least one piston extends circumferentially in the tire building drum about the hub and a plurality of segment bars are disposed about the circumference of the center deck assembly. The at least one piston is operably connected to the segment bars by a plurality of linkages, in which each of the linkages includes a scissor-lever mechanism.

Center deck assembly for tire building drum

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North Canton, OH, United States of America

Kristian Daniel Johnson