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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 1979
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1977
Paul E Appleby, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
Christopher E Christie, Akron, OH (US);
John H Gerstenmaier, Akron, OH (US);
Thomas F Minter, Akron, OH (US);
Edwin S Woodhall, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
A coordinated method and apparatus system for concurrently building an endless band and an endless inextensible belt, transferring the band coaxially of itself to a carcass forming and shaping drum, enfolding beads in inwardly turned ends of such band to form a carcass, then shaping the carcass while swinging the drum about a vertical axis to transfer the endless belt coaxially of itself and of the shaped carcass. The apparatus includes a band building drum with cooperating ply stock servicer for building the tire band and a belt building drum also with a cooperating servicer for supplying belt ply stock and, optionally, tread stock. Axes of the band drum and belt drum are disposed to intersect a vertical axis about which a turret mounted carcass forming drum swings into alternate coaxial alignment with the band building drum and the belt building drum.