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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2023
Applicant:
Bridgestone Bandag, Llc, Nashville, TN (US);
Inventor:
Robert G. Otting, Muscatine, IA (US);
Assignee:
Bridgestone Bandag, LLC, Nashville, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 73/02 (2006.01); B29L 30/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 73/025 (2013.01); B29L 2030/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for automatically filling skived areas on a tire carcass is provided. The method including analyzing, by a computer system, a surface of a tire carcass with a sensor, identifying, by the computer system, a first skived area of the tire carcass, determining, by the computer system, whether to perform a filling operation to fill the first skived area, communicating, by the computer system, the location of the first skived area to a filling device responsive to a determination to perform the filling operation, and filling, by the filling device, the first skived area.