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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited, Hyogo-Ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1561101 ; 156130 ; 156414 ; 156417 ;
Abstract
A tire building apparatus includes a tire building drum for pulling and holding a tire component on the outer circumference thereof. The tire building drum is formed with a plurality of suction portions for pulling the tire component to the tire building drum, and a pitch of a pair of adjacent suction portions in the circumferential direction is set different from a pitch of another pair of adjacent suction portions in the circumferential direction of the tire building drum.