Patent ID: 6641690
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: B29D

Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing a tire reinforcement constituted from a cord supplied continuously and on demand by a suitable distributor, said apparatus being intended for use in cooperation with a substantially toroidal form on which said reinforcement is built up progressively by depositing arches of said cord according to a desired trajectory for said cord on the surface of said form, said apparatus comprising:depositing members arranged on a support wherein said depositing members comprise: (i) a guide member in which the cord may slide freely and (ii) a mechanism for actuating said guide member in a plane of movement so as to bring said guide member in successive oscillations from one end of said cord trajectory to the other end of said cord trajectory, pressers arranged at said ends of said cord trajectory for applying the cord onto the form, means of imparting to said support an alternating movement perpendicular to the plane of movement of said guide member and wherein said alternating movement is synchronized with the movement of the guide member so as to allow deflection of the final cord trajectory.