Patent ID: 8876508
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: B29D

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for producing a pneumatic tyre, comprising: a building unit designed to form a green tyre having a pair of beads each defined along a respective inner circumferential edge of said green tyre; bead moulding devices to tighten each bead between two axially opposite clamping surfaces; a moulding unit of the green tyre having a moulding cavity with an inner wall substantially conforming in shape to an outer surface of a moulded tyre; devices for vulcanising the green tyre; actuating devices for transferring the green tyre together with said bead moulding devices into the moulding cavity; and spring elements to urge the clamping surface toward each other with a predetermined tightening load during tightening of the beads.