Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Tadaaki Komatsu

Eizi Yano

Shunjiro Ohkawa

Masami Adachi

Kanji Inoue

Yuusuke Araki

A green tire building process comprises: the steps of: jointing both longitudinal ends of a belt-like tread rubber for producing an endless tread band, and applying the endless tread band on an inner periphery of an annular face: jointing both longitudinal ends of a belt-like breaker ply for producing an endless breaker band, and disposing the endless breaker band within said endless tread band with its mid-circumferential plane being aligned with that of said endless tread band; expanding the endless breaker band radially and applying the endless breaker band on the inner periphery of the endless tread band for building a tread breaker assembly; disposing a cylindrical green case within and in coaxial relation with the tread breaker assembly; deforming the cylindrical green case toroidally to be applied on the inner periphery of the endless breaker band for integrally building the cylindrical green case and the tread breaker assembly.

Green tire building process and apparatus

In order to automatically load sheet materials on a plurality of shelves piled on a book truck, an apparatus comprises a loading mechanism provided adjacent to the book truck for loading predetermined numbers of the sheet material on the shelves of the book truck, a waiting mechanism provided adjacent to an end of the loading mechanism remote from the book truck for conveying the sheet materials onto the loading mechanism when the loading mechanism has no sheet material thereon and for holding the sheet materials thereon when the loading mechanism has the sheet materials thereon, and a lining-up mechanism provided adjacent to an end of the waiting mechanism remote from the loading mechanism for lining up the sheet materials and conveying the sheet materials onto the waiting mechanism.

Apparatus for loading sheet material on a plurality of shelves on a book

An apparatus for coating a liquid on opposite sides of a flexible material, which is particularly suitable for use in applying a splicing cement to predetermined surface areas on obverse and reverse sides of a vehicle tire tread. The apparatus comprises in combination: first sheet conveying means for transferring a flexible sheet material through a first coating position; first liquid coating means located at the first sheet coating position for applying a coating liquid on a predetermined surface on an obverse side of the sheet material; second sheet conveying means for transferring the flexible sheet material through a second liquid coating position; second liquid coating means located at the second coating position for applying the coating liquid on predetermined surface on a reverse side of the sheet material; and turn-over means located between the first and second sheet conveying means for transferring the flexible sheet material upside-down from the first to the second sheet conveying means. The first and second coating means each has a coating liquid reservoir which has a transverse slit in the bottom wall for allowing the coating liquid to drop by gravity forming a liquid film across passage of the transferred sheet material.

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Akigawa, Japan

Tadaaki Komatsu