The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toru Aihara

Jiro Agawa

Yoshinori Miyamoto

Hidemasa Sato

Kazuo Mogi

Keizo Yamashita

Masaaki Yoshida

Naoki Sasaki

This invention provides a method of supplying sheet-like materials in which a plurality of sheet-like materials comprising tire constituent materials and cut into a predetermined size are conveyed by an applying conveyor means and applied onto a building drum. A sheet-like material to be assembled is supplied onto a conveyor belt of the applying conveyor means. Another sheet-like material to assemble, which is held on a transfer drum, is laminated onto the material on the conveyor belt sequentially from one of the end sides thereof to the other with press by rotating and moving the transfer drum. Then a laminate body comprising the sheet-like materials is wound on the building drum.

Apparatus for supplying sheet materials

Method of supplying sheet materials

A tire building system comprises a band drum, a shaping drum, and a belt forming machine having two oscillating or rotating belt drums, in which the band drum and the shaping drum are arranged on the same axis in opposing relationship, a band transfer is disposed therebetween on the axis in such a manner as to reciprocate, the belt forming machine is arranged in parallel to the axis, and a belt transfer is disposed between the belt drum and the shaping drum in such a manner as to move in the axial direction and the direction normal to the axis.

Tire building system

Apparatus for transferring and setting bead part assemblies for tires

Tire building apparatus including two belt drums

The present invention aims to provide a tread pickup device which can pick up a tread on a truck reliably without manpower. The device comprises a plurality of short first forks for scooping up a front edge of the tread placed on the truck and holding the tread, long second forks which are arranged adjacent to the first forks and inserted throughout the total width of the tread, and a mechanism for raising and moving the first and second forks together with the tread.

Tread pickup device

An object of the present invention is to provide a tread centering device which automatically detects the position of tread center and holds it in a straight form even when the center of tread is not positioned in a straight form. The device mainly comprises a plurality of detectors for detecting a groove for centering the tread, a holding plate which is inserted into the detected groove, and a mechanism which moves said holding plate transversely to align said groove in a straight form.

Tread centering device

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Hiratsuka, Japan

Toru Aihara