Schenck Rotec Corporation

Mark Ortwein

Martin Rogalla

Andreas Peinelt

Philip Beilstein

Alexander Jung

A handling robot includes an articulated arm movable in three directions, which carries a gripper at its free end for gripping and holding pneumatic tires. The pneumatic tire is held on its running surface by the gripper, taken from a provision position and moved to an optional wetting station for wetting the pneumatic tire with lubricant. The wetted pneumatic tire is then moved to an assembly station with a clamping device for releasably holding a wheel rim, which comprises a handling device with an assembly head equipped with assembly tools that can be guided along between the tire bead and the wheel rim flange. Here, the pneumatic tire is mounted on the wheel rim by a coordinated movement of the handling robot and the assembly head.

Method for assembling a pneumatic tyre on a wheel rim

In a device () for clamping a rim () of a vehicle wheel, at least four clamping elements () are provided which can be moved with respect to the rim () and comprise clamping arms () and support elements () having support surfaces (). A rim flange of the rim () can be placed on the support surfaces. The clamping arms () are rotatably mounted, about their longitudinal axis, in the clamping elements (), and have clamping fingers () at the end that protrude beyond the support surfaces (), which fingers have clamping surfaces which can be brought into clamping contact with the placeable rim flange.

Device for clamping a rim of a vehicle wheel

In a tire inflating device having a machine frame (), a tire filling bell () arranged on the machine frame () and a supporting and sealing device () for sealing a filling chamber. The tire filling bell () is comprised of a filling plate () and a separate filling ring (). A magazine () has a magazine rack () and magazine guides () lying in a plurality of parallel planes, each of said guides being able to hold a filling ring (') mounted so that it can move. The magazine rack () and the filling plate () can be moved with respect to each other into a plurality of transfer positions in the direction of the axis of rotation. The magazine guide () in each case is connected to a filling plate guide () arranged on the filling plate () in said transfer positions. A filling ring () which is located in the magazine guide () arranged in the transfer position can be conveyed by a conveying device () into a filling plate guide and a centered position on the filling plate ().

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Darmstadt, Germany

Mark Ortwein