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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2007
William Dudley Currie, Stow, OH (US);
Dennis Alan Lundell, Akron, OH (US);
David Alan Henthorne, Copley, OH (US);
Mary Beth Dombrosky, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
William Dudley Currie, Stow, OH (US);
Dennis Alan Lundell, Akron, OH (US);
David Alan Henthorne, Copley, OH (US);
Mary Beth Dombrosky, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
A tire building core manipulating apparatus for a segmented tire building core is provided, the core including a plurality of core segments extending generally radially from a central axis. The manipulating apparatus includes a support frame; a core latching mechanism mounted to the support frame for operatively engaging a mating mechanism on the core whereby suspending the tire building core in a preferred axial orientation and raises and lowers the core to engage one or more stations in a tire curing line. A transport mechanism relocates the support frame with the tire building core in the preferred axial orientation between a plurality of stations in the tire curing line.