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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7770622 | Plant for producing types of tyres different from each other A plant for producing types of tyres different from each other includes a manufacturing unit including a plurality of work stations, devices for transfer and movement of the tyres being produced, and a vulcanizing unit including vulcanizing moulds for the tyres bein... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7712504 | Machine for assembling and vulcanising tires A machine for manufacturing tires (P) using at least one core (N) used as a reference surface of the manufacture of the tires (P) by moving consecutively from one manufacturing station to another from the start of assembly through to vulcanisation, comprising a firs... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7431787 | Method, shaping drum, and plant for manufacturing a tire for a vehicle wheel A method for building a tyre for a vehicle wheel includes positioning a casing sleeve on a shaping drum and securing the sleeve on the drum. During at least one of positioning and securing the sleeve, the sleeve is kept in an essentially centered position on the dru... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7370897 | Article gripping device An article gripping device includes a device body, a first ring fixed to the device body, a plurality of gripping members, a second ring, a driving mechanism and a plurality of linking mechanisms. The plurality of gripping members are arranged in a circumferential d... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365463 | High-torque motor A motor that delivers high force linear motion or high torque rotary motion to a moving element. The motor may include a driving brake, a driver, a holding brake and a flexible moving element. Operation of the motor may involve activating the holding brake, activati... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7351299 | Device and process for storing and transferring strip-shaped products for use in making a tire cover A device for storing and transferring strip sections of rubber produced intended for making a tire cover, includes a storage cylinder mounted to rotate about a horizontal axis of revolution on a frame which is in turn mounted on a support. A flexible strip forming a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7243895 | Damping and mounting structure for a motor A damping and mounting structure for a motor includes a bracket to which a motor is mounted, the bracket being provided with a plurality of through-holes; a housing having a driven element which is driven by the motor on the bracket; a plurality of threaded holes an... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7195047 | Tire manufacturing module and method of manufacturing tires A module for manufacturing a cured tire from a plurality of tire components is disclosed. The module has a plurality of component appliers located at spaced locations along a predetermined path, and a mobile tire building trolley for movement along the predetermined... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7182834 | Method and apparatus for assembling narrow components onto a tire building drum A method and apparatus for assembling multiple tire components onto one or more tire building drums at a work station of a tire building system is disclosed. A first inner set of measuring drums is located at a first loading position between a second outer set of me... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178669 | Tire storage system A tire storage system is disclosed, for securely storing one or more tires. The tire storage system consists of two identical tire caps and a connecting spacer. One of the tire caps is placed horizontally on a flat surface. The used tire is placed upon one of the ti... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172005 | Apparatus for manufacturing a vehicle tire and a belt structure, belt package and crown structure of the tire An apparatus for manufacturing a vehicle tire includes means for preparing and toroidally shaping a carcass structure, preparing and arranging a belt structure as a crown around the carcass structure, and wrapping a tread around the belt structure. The means for pre... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7128115 | Method and an apparatus for manufacturing components of a tire for vehicle wheels An apparatus for manufacturing components for a tire being worked is provided. The apparatus includes a toroidal support for carrying the components of a tire being worked. The toroidal support has an outer surface substantially matching an inner shape of the tire. ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7118642 | Method and plant for the manufacture of green tyres The assembly of devices for production of green tyres, consisting of a belt building drum, tread building drum, band drum for preparing a carcass and a forming drum and further includes devices for transferring particular components or assemblies of the components f... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7104303 | Stabilizer for cantilevered tire building drum Method and apparatus for stabilizing a fire building drum wherein the fire building drum has two ends, is permanently supported at a single cantilever support end, and the remaining end is a free end. The method comprises providing a free end support engaged with th... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7060145 | Method of making pneumatic tire In a method of making a pneumatic tire which comprises a tire main body and a tread rubber with axial edges, the inside diameter of the tread rubber being smaller at the axial edges than in the intermediate portion, the tire main body including an underlying compone... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7052568 | Tire retreading method A retreading method wherein a base composition and a cap composition are applied to a carcass (10) as two ribbons (14) and (16) extruded from separate extruders (18) and (20). The ribbons (14) and (16) can be layered ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7008495 | Method and plant for manufacturing a belt structure, a belt package, and a crown structure for a vehicle tire A method for manufacturing a vehicle-tire belt structure includes preparing half-strips; splicing respective half-strips to form belt strips; moving the belt strips toward at least one assembly drum; and superposing portions of the belt strips to form a belt structu... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7005023 | Method of manufacturing tires A method of manufacturing tires includes the steps of making structural components for tires, assembling the structural components of each tire following a pre-established sequence at respective work stations disposed along a manufacturing line, transferring the tir... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6979378 | Tire forming system and tire forming method A tire forming system includes a band forming machine, a shaping forming machine, a belt/tread forming machine, means for supplying a band member and means for supplying a belt/tread member. The means for supplying the band member include an inner liner supply means... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6966958 | Precision alignment of tire building drum to automated tire building system working axis Method and apparatus for precision alignment of a moving tire building drum to an automated tire building system working axis, wherein the automated tire building system comprises one or more work stations with application drums aligned to the working axis, and the ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6921446 | System and method for producing tire A ply station 12, a band station 13, a shaping station 14, and a belt-tread station 15 are disposed along one side of a conveyor line 11 which extends linearly. A first feeding apparatus 16 disposed between the stations 1... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6908523 | Plant for producing tires of different types simultaneously A method for producing types of tires different from each other includes the steps of making a plurality of structural components for the tires, manufacturing the tires by assembling the structural components in proximity to corresponding work stations, moving the t... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6863760 | Stabilizer for cantilevered tire building drum Method and apparatus for stabilizing a tire building drum wherein the tire building drum has two ends, is permanently supported at a single cantilever support end, and the remaining end is a free end. The method comprises providing a free end support engaged with th... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6814122 | Radial tire forming device The present invention provides a radial tire forming apparatus capable of being applied to the formation of a carcass band having a large folding length. On a housing for a rollover device of the tire forming apparatus, a plurality of sets of straight rail bearers a... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6793752 | Precision longitudinal registration of tire building drum to automated tire building system work station Method and apparatus for precision longitudinal registration of a movable tire building drum (120, 620) to an automated tire building system (100) work station (110, 610), wherein the automated tire building system comprises one or more work sta... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6783618 | Method and apparatus for the manufacturing of a tire for vehicle wheels A method of manufacturing a tire for a vehicle wheel includes forming a carcass sleeve, transferring the carcass sleeve onto a shaping drum, shaping the carcass sleeve to apply a belt structure and a tread band, and applying a pair of sidewalls against side surfaces... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6773530 | Method for manufacturing tires on a flexible manufacturing system A method for simultaneously building a plurality of tire carcasses includes the tire building steps of establishing a sequence of work stations, each at a predefined location along a working axis extending through the work stations. Disconnected tire building drums ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6758930 | Process and apparatus for tire manufacturing with optimized bead positioning A method and system for building, in at least two stages, an unvulcanized tire carcass (30). The system (20) incorporates a first stage tire building drum (22) on which predetermined, unvulcanized tire building components are layered to form a c... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6746557 | Bead loading method and apparatus A method for mounting beads on a tire carcass which is being laid up on tire building drum, particularly applicable to cases wherein the drum has a free end and an opposite end which is supported by a drum support (or comparable impediment to installing a bead from ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6673182 | Green tire holding device with turning spindle(s) A green tire holding device (50) including a horizontal turning spindle (52) which supports and turns a green tire (T) so that no set portion of the tire is constantly subjected to the downward pull of the rest of the tire carcass. The spindle (52) can be... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6656301 | Green tire storage device with inflatable bladders A green tire holding device (10) including a frame (12), a rod (14) extending horizontally from the frame (12), and a bladder (16) mounted on the rod (14). The bladder (16) is inflatable to an inflated shape so that it contacts a substantial portion of an... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6635132 | Method and an apparatus for manufacturing components of a tire for vehicle wheels A method of manufacturing components for a tire for vehicle wheels includes the steps of picking up a toroidal support using a robotized arm, feeding at least one elongated element from a delivery member disposed adjacent to the outer surface of the toroi... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6591885 | Suspension device having a vertical axis for tire carcasses A device for the substantially vertical suspension of tire carcasses, which includes a plurality of articulated supports, the latter being able to bear on the inside of a tire carcass, each of said supports having a convex bearing surface capable of adopt... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6558495 | Device for the suspension of tire carcasses A device for the substantially vertical suspension of tire carcasses which includes a plurality of supports arranged about a lifting axis (XX'), which supports bear on the inside of a tire carcass, the supports being mobile radially relative to the liftin... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6523594 | Tire retreading plant A recapping shop concluding a plurality of work stations for preparing tires to be recapped, an autoclave having a horizontal axis for vulcanizing the new treads, a first transport system for transferring the tires between the various stations and for sto... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6475319 | Manufacturing system for pneumatic tires Method and apparatus for manufacturing pneumatic tires, wherein a green case comprised of at least one inner liner rubber member and a carcass ply member is formed on a first drum and transferred to a position around a second drum. The green case is the f... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6401783 | Two drum turret for tire building A tire drum turret having an outboard support and direct drive of the frame with adjustable drum shaft bearings for precise positioning of the drums.... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6363988 | Manufacturing apparatus for single-wire bead A manufacturing apparatus for single-wire bead provided with a winding device winding a wire onto a drum to form a formed bead, a thread winding device winding a thread to both ends of the wire on approximately same position in a circumferencial direction... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6328835 | Structure and method for automatic supply of bead-with-filler A structure and a method for supplying a bead-with-filler automatically to a tire molding machine are provided. The structure comprises a bead-with-filler preset apparatus for presetting a filler to an annular bead; a bead supply apparatus positioned at a... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6258189 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing tire Means for measuring deviation measures a vertical deviation of a green tire from circularity while the green tire is clamped by a green tire building drum. The green tire to be formed is shaped into a complete circle according to the measured value.... | 07/10/2001 |
