Bridgestone Corporation

Osamu Fukaura

Norio Abe

Kazuhide Kinoshita

A product storage method is carried out by a product storage system comprising an intermediate storage yard, a product moving means capable of holding a product, of moving vertically, laterally and longitudinally and of placing the product at any place in the intermediate storage yard, a first conveying means for conveying products to the intermediate storage yard, a second conveying means for conveying the products out of the intermediate storage yard, and a control means for controlling the product moving means, the first conveying means and the second conveying means. The control means identifies the type of a product conveyed to the intermediate storage yard by the first conveying means and decides whether or not the product is to be sent to a terminal position, the tire moving means transfers the tire be sent to the terminal position to the second conveying means, the second conveying means carries the same product to the terminal position, and the product moving means carries products other than those to be sent to the terminal position to any places in the intermediate storage yard to store the products in groups of types at the places.

Method of storing products and storage system

A rotatably supported annular tire bead is rotated by drive rollers held in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the bead, and during rotation of the bead a tape is fed and stuck onto the inner circumferential surface of the bead. The opposite side edge portions of this tape extending from this bead are stuck onto the opposite side surfaces of the bead by being pinched from the opposite sides by flange portions of the drive rollers and flange members opposed thereto, subsequently the opposite side edge portions of the tape are folded back onto the outer circumferential surface of the bead by means of scraper members, and thus the bead is perfectly covered by the tape. The above-mentioned flange members are fitted around the drive rollers so as to be slidable in the axial direction, and they are biased to reduce the intervals between the flange members and the flange portions of the drive rollers. Furthermore, there is provided expanding means for expanding the above-mentioned intervals.

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Oume, Japan

Osamu Fukaura