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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 07, 1987
Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for controlling the transportation of cured tires on a tire feed path including a device for supplying a white tire which can be discriminated positively from the cured tires on the tire feed path, a device for placing cured tires on the tire feed path in such an order that the white tire is followed by the cured tires, a photoelectric sensor for detecting the white tire on the tire feed path to generate a reference signal, a memory circuit for storing tire identification signals by means of which the tires have been cured by curing machines, a circuit for reading the tire identification signals out of the memory circuit under the control of the reference signal, and a device for selectively transporting respective cured tires into predetermined paths in accordance with the read out tire identification signals.