Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Yusaku Azuma

Yoshifumi Kitayama

Chiaki Ozawa

Shinji Kawaida

A strip deforming apparatus for deforming a flexible strip into a looped endless band, comprising a first conveyor assembly comprising an endless belt having an upper travelling path, a second conveyor assembly positioned below the first conveyor assembly and comprising an endless belt having an upper travelling path parallel with and spaced apart downwardly from the belt of the first conveyor assembly, and a third conveyor assembly positoned between the first and second conveyor assemblies and comprising a pair of conveyor rolls elongated in longitudinal directions of the apparatus and each rotatable about the center axis thereof. At least one of the first and second conveyor assemblies is movable toward and away from the other conveyor assembly and the conveyor rolls are spaced apart in parallel from each other in a lateral direction of the apparatus. The belt of the first conveyor assembly is driven to travel in a lateral direction of the apparatus and the belt of the second conveyor assembly is driven to travel in a direction opposite to the direction of travel of the belt of the first conveyor assembly. The third conveyor assembly is driven to move vertically between the first and second conveyor assemblies and the conveyor rolls of the third conveyor assembly are driven to move toward and away from each other in a lateral direction of the apparatus.

Strip deforming apparatus

Herein disclosed is a tire component storing assembly, comprising in combination: a frame structure comprising a pair of side plate members spaced apart from and substantially in parallel with each other, a first reel having opposite end portions rotatably supported on the side plate members, respectively, of the frame structure, a second reel having opposite end portions rotatably supported on the side plate members, respectively, of the frame structure, the second reel spaced apart from and substantially in parallel with the first reel, and a liner sheet having one end wound on the first reel and the other end wound on the second reel to form layers thereon, whereby a tire component is wound on any one of the first and second reels while intervening between the layers of the liner sheet to be wound on any one of the first and second reels.

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Higashimurayama, Japan

Yusaku Azuma