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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7862317 | Mold for vulcanizing a tire, a method of vulcanizing a green tire blank, and a tire obtained by said method A mold includes at least one axial member carrying at least one sidewall molding surface for molding a sidewall of a tire, radial segments each carrying at least one surface for molding a tread of the tire and locking surfaces for connecting the axial member with th... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7665977 | Steam heated vulcanization apparatus Disclosed herein is an apparatus for vulcanizing rubber, particularly for vulcanizing the ends of endless rubber belts. The apparatus disclosed herein is a lightweight and portable steam heated vulcanization apparatus which comprises upper and lower platens comprisi... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7442335 | Apparatus and method for loading and unloading a tire press A tire press has an upper mold fixedly attached to a top plate. A bottom mold is fixedly attached to a bottom plate. The tire press has a plurality of guide posts adapted to maintain proper alignment of the upper mold and the lower mold as the tire press opens and c... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7371060 | Mold-attaching/detaching device in tire-vulcanizing machine Disclosed is a mold attaching/detaching apparatus in a tire vulcanizer, having locking/unlocking means configured so as to perform an engagement and disengagement by utilizing the relative movement between a top plate and bottom plate of the tire vulcanizer in a hor... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367793 | Mold with movable core insert A mold includes a first board (10), a second board (20), and a core insert (30). The first board is mounted on the second board, and the core insert is slidably mounted between the first board and the second board, under the control of an adjust... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7354261 | Tire vulcanizing apparatus Disclosed is a tire vulcanizing apparatus including: upper and lower circular plates, to which sidewall dies for forming side portions of a tire are attached; respectively; and plural segments, to which tread dies separated as plural pieces for forming a tread porti... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7329110 | Tire vulcanizing mold and pneumatic tire There is provided a tire vulcanizing mold capable of smoothly and surely forming narrow-width grooves in a treading face without causing the damage, breakage and the like of projections for the formation of the grooves in a sector mold and land portions in the tread... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320580 | Apparatus and method for loading and unloading a tire press A tire press has an upper mold fixedly attached to a top plate. A bottom mold is fixedly attached to a bottom plate. The tire press has a plurality of guide posts adapted to maintain proper alignment of the upper mold and the lower mold as the tire press opens and c... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7276196 | Process for manufacturing a track and stripping device A process for manufacturing a track formed from a circumferentially continuous belt made of elastomeric material and including an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is provided with a plurality of drive blocks uniformly arranged on the circumferen... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258829 | Tire curing system and method This invention relates to a tire curing system having a plurality of molds disposed in side by side relation, transporting means for transporting green tires to the tire curing system, loading means for loading a green tire into a bottom mold half of one of the mold... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7189069 | Mold for forming an annular tread belt A segmented annular mold for forming a tread belt having a reinforcing belt structure, the belt structure having a radial thickness (t) is disclosed. The mold has a plurality of radially movable and outwardly expandable inner segments for forming the inner surface o... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7160090 | Tire mold with helically extending heating conduit An apparatus for transferring heat into a product, such as a tire, formed at least in part by molding is provided. The apparatus includes a mold that has a central axis with a forming surface disposed radially outward from the central axis. A heating conduit is incl... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7118702 | Tire mold The tire mold comprises a laminated peripheral crown having a stack in the circumferential direction of a plurality of thin sheets. Cutouts distributed over several adjacent sheets increase the venting ability of the mold. ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114546 | Tire mold and method for making a tire mold A tire mold according to the invention includes a plurality of tread sectors for forming a tread portion of a tire and two shell inserts for molding the sidewalls of a tire wherein the tread sectors and the shell inserts are castings formed from the same model. A me... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7112051 | Quick clamping device A quick clamping device includes a main body adapted to be mounted on a mold holder, a clamp piece including first and second arm sections and pivoted to the main body between the first and second arm sections, a wedge body mounted movably on the main body below the... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7056109 | Tire vulcanizing device A tire vulcanizing device includes an upper plate and a lower plate which can be relatively displaced toward and away from each other, and a mold for vulcanizing and molding a tire arranged between the upper plate and the lower plate. The mold includes an upper and ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7025581 | Tire vulcanizing mold There is provided a vulcanizing mold for a tire in which the capacity of venting air through between the molding pieces of the sector mold is significantly enhanced. A tread ring for vulcanizing and shaping a tread of the tire comprises plural sector molds which are... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6991760 | Method and apparatus for vulcanizing tire A method and apparatus for vulcanizing tires are provided. An unvulcanized tire is transferred and loaded onto a lower mold member when a plurality of arcuate sector mold members aligned along the peripheral direction locate at the radially outermost positions as we... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6981857 | Apparatus and method for locking a tire vulcanizing press A tire press has an upper mold fixedly attached to a top plate. A bottom mold is fixedly attached to a bottom plate. The tire press has a plurality of guide posts adapted to maintain proper alignment of the upper mold and the lower mold as the tire press opens and c... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6955782 | Method of molding a tire and mold therefor A tire molding method as disclosed wherein a segmented mold (2) has lugs (40) in the shoulder regions of the segments (4) with complimentary lug extensions (30) in the sidewall forming annular rings (6,8). The lug extensions (30... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6918754 | Blow mold and blow-molding machine A blow mold machine, comprising two lockable mold halves. A locking element is fixed onto one mold half and a shaft with at least one recess is mounted in the other mold half. The shaft can be pivoted between a locking position, in which it lies against the locking ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6916164 | Tire mold having improved heat transfer characteristics A tire mold having improved heat transfer is disclosed. A plurality of wear plates are installed onto a conical inner surface of an actuating ring. The wear plates are designed to improve thermal transfer between the actuating ring and a segmented treadmolding ring,... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6908584 | Apparatus and method for locking a tire vulcanizing press A tire press has an upper mold fixedly attached to a top plate. A bottom mold is fixedly attached to a bottom plate. The tire press has a plurality of guide posts adapted to maintain proper alignment of the upper mold and the lower mold as the tire press opens and c... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6896836 | Vulcanization process for pneumatic tire and mold therefor A pneumatic tire comprising a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions and a pair of bead portions is manufactured by conducting the venting in a portion of a green tire placed in a vulcanization mold prior to vulcanization and corresponding to the sidewall portio... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6841113 | Method and apparatus for curing tires A method for curing a tyre includes the steps of closing the tyre in a mould, heating at least one lower hot table, at least one upper hot table, and at least one annular hot table to transmit heat to the tyre. The at least one lower hot table, the at least one uppe... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6808377 | Segmented tire mold A segmented tire mold having radially movable circumferentially spaced sliding center segments activated by sliding connections between an upper mold half and the segments in response to opening and closing of the mold. ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6733259 | Tire vulcanizing mold A vulcanizing mold for a pneumatic tire wherein the tread portion includes a center region and outer regions on both sides thereof. The mold includes a pair of side mold members movable toward each other defining part of a mold cavity for vulcanizing a green tire, a... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6702912 | Production system for pneumatic tires A pneumatic tire production system comprises production lines each including a green tire building station for assembling unvulcanized members of pneumatic tires into green tires. The green tires are vulcanized at a vulcanizing station which includes at l... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6571845 | Low-section tire and mould and process for manufacturing a tire air tube A low-section tire includes an air tube including an internal wall and two air tube sidewalls. The internal wall comprises a greater rigidity than the tube sidewalls so that, when a carcass and the tube are mounted on a rim, and during inflation, the tube... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6506040 | Tire curing press mold height adjustment apparatus A tire curing press (10) having a frame (20), a bolster (16) for mounting a lower mold section (12), a cylinder (35) mounted on the frame, a cylinder rod (38) of the cylinder for moving the bolster and the lower mold section between a closed position and ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6345970 | Hydraulic system for tire curing press A hydraulic system for a tire curing press includes at least one tire press operated by a hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic control valve; a hydraulic unit for supplying pressure oil of a fixed pressure; an accumulator circuit for accumulating pressure o... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6292993 | Vulcanizing machine with segmented mold A vulcanizing machine for producing pneumatic tires includes an exchangeable segmented mold comprised of tread mold pieces for defining the outer contour of a tire tread portion, and upper and lower side mold members engaged with the tread mold pieces, fo... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6289572 | Sealing arrangement A sealing arrangement including a sealing ring with a support ring extending substantially in a radial direction. The support ring is joined in the radial direction to a first sealing element that lies in contact with and is nonrotatable with respect to a... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6250901 | Segmented mold for pneumatic tires A segmented mold for pneumatic tires includes a plurality of segmented tread mold pieces for forming an outer contour of a tire tread portion, a plurality of connector segments detachably connected to outer peripheral surfaces of the respective tread mold... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6139301 | Equipment for adjustment of clamping plate height The invention relates to a device for adjustment of the clamping plate height in a curing press steam chamber. The height adjustability allows the clamping plate to be attached to different size tire molds to produce tires of different sizes in a single s... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6116881 | Device for lifting of upper part of curing press steam chamber A device for lifting an upper part of a curing press steam chamber includes rollers which move along guideways. The lifting device allows an upper part of the steam chamber to be lifted off a lower part of the steam chamber and moved laterally to allow ea... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6066283 | Tire curing apparatus A tire curing apparatus comprises a lower mold, an upper mold, a sector mold comprised of plural arc-shaped segments, and a taper ring, and further provided with a single link, a rising means for giving a rising force to the arc-shaped segment, and a stop... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6017206 | Tire mold and tire molding process The sector mold (11) is designed so that, during the molding phase, the molding elements (10, 10a, 10b, 10c) are all equidistant due to devices (13) which assure an elastic repulsion between each other. Some of the elements glide circumferentially with re... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5980810 | Tire mold The tire mold includes a peripheral ring split into two parts (G and D). The peripheral ring is laminated. It consists of a stack in the circumferential direction of a number of thin adjacent elements (1) made, for example, of metal sheets. The elements a... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5939002 | Apparatus and process for changing a sidewall insert of a tire mold A molding apparatus and process is described in which a side wall mold insert is accessible and releasable from the interior of the molding apparatus. A fastener reversibly seats the side wall insert to the mold frame, the insert having an inclined rim wa... | 08/17/1999 |
