Bandag Incorporated

Ronald Seiler

Edwin T Brodie

Thomas W Graves

A method and apparatus is shown for preparing a tire carcass for recapping. The process is provided for use on steel belted tires having a steel belt or protector ply embedded in the tire structure as the outermost layer in a series of steel belts forming the other plies. An apparatus for performing the process is described wherein means are provided for severing a damaged belt or protector ply from the tire carcass and preparing the carcass for recapping, after which the carcass may be recappd in the normal manner used for rebuilding steel belted tires.

Tire belt removal

In bonding a prevulcanized tread strip to a tire casing with a low-temperature-vulcanizable bonding medium temporary support elements in the form of elastic rings are inserted in the circumferential tread grooves during pressing of the tread strip against the tire casing for the purposes of achieving uniform pressure over the whole tread strip and preventing distortion or movement of portions of the tread strip and/or bonding medium during the bonding operation.

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Muscatine, IA, United States of America

Ronald Seiler