The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Thomas Eugene Brown

James Alfred Benzing, Ii

George Michael Stoila

Albert James Yovichin

Michael W Cook

Robert Albert Lammlein, Jr

Ronald Paul Homolak

Thomas John Rood

Jack A Davisson

Michael Mihalik

Jon D Carlson

The method of building and transferring a tread belt structure on a portable and collapsible building drummounted coaxially on a building machinewith a rotatable shaftis disclosed. The method includes the steps of forming the annular tread belton the building drum, transferring the building drumwith the tread beltfrom the rotatable shaftonto a pivoting transfer device, pivoting the transfer deviceabout 90&#xb0; rendering the tread beltand axis of the building drumperpendicular to a horizontal plane, collapsing the building drum, separating the annular tread beltfrom the building drum, removing the tread belt, expanding the tire building drum, pivoting the building druminto coaxial alignment with the rotatable shaft, moving the building drumonto the shaft. The tread belthas one or more elastomeric components applied while hot and the equipment provides means for weighing the tread belt

Method and apparatus for building and transferring a tread belt structure

A two-stage building method and apparatus for making an uncured tire including winding on shoulder wedge and sidewall components from strip material on a first stage building drum, winding on gum cushion on a band building drum and making up sequential breaker packages for second stage application to the tire.

Method for making a multi-component tire

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Uniontown, OH, United States of America

Thomas Eugene Brown