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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 1990
Filed:
May. 26, 1988
David W Bailey, Waterloo, CA;
The Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
An improved second stage tire building machine including a first station for receiving and supporting a first stage tire carcass; a second station axially offset from the first station for assembling a breaker and tread cylinder; a servicer for feeding breaker strip material to the second station to form a breaker cylinder; a tread conveyor for feeding tread material to the second station over the breaker cylinder to form a breaker and tread cylinder; a stitcher to stitch the tread material and the breaker material to the carcass; a transfer device to transport the breaker and tread cylinder from the second station onto the periphery of a carcass at the first station for the assembly of a green tire and to then transport a green tire to an intermediate location; a robot to transport a carcass to the first station and a green tire from the transfer ring; and control means to coordinate the movement of the servicer, conveyor, transfer ring and robot in a continuous and automatic cycle of operation. Also disclosed is a method of fabricating a green tire from a carcass on a second stage tire building system.