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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2007
Albert James Yovichin, Doylestown, OH (US);
Robert Albert Lammlein, Jr., Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
Thomas John Rood, Clinton, IL (US);
George Michael Stoila, Tallmadge, OH (US);
James Alfred Benzing, Ii, North Canton, OH (US);
Thomas Eugene Brown, Uniontown, OH (US);
Ronald Paul Homolak, Brunswick, OH (US);
Albert James Yovichin, Doylestown, OH (US);
Robert Albert Lammlein, Jr., Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
Thomas John Rood, Clinton, IL (US);
George Michael Stoila, Tallmadge, OH (US);
James Alfred Benzing, II, North Canton, OH (US);
Thomas Eugene Brown, Uniontown, OH (US);
Ronald Paul Homolak, Brunswick, OH (US);
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
The method of building and transferring a tread belt structure on a portable and collapsible building drummounted coaxially on a building machinewith a rotatable shaftis disclosed. The method includes the steps of forming the annular tread belton the building drum, transferring the building drumwith the tread beltfrom the rotatable shaftonto a pivoting transfer device, pivoting the transfer deviceabout 90° rendering the tread beltand axis of the building drumperpendicular to a horizontal plane, collapsing the building drum, separating the annular tread beltfrom the building drum, removing the tread belt, expanding the tire building drum, pivoting the building druminto coaxial alignment with the rotatable shaft, moving the building drumonto the shaft. The tread belthas one or more elastomeric components applied while hot and the equipment provides means for weighing the tread belt