Patent ID: 9156219
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: B29D

Abstract:
1. A tire vulcanizer that vulcanizes a tire loaded inside with a lower mold and an upper mold provided to an upper part of the lower mold, the tire vulcanizer comprising: a lower mold supporting part configured to support the lower mold; an upper mold supporting part configured to support the upper mold; a moving device that is configured to move the upper mold supporting part in a horizontal direction; an elevator device that is configured to move the upper mold supporting part in a vertical direction; a lift device that is configured to push up a vulcanized tire held in the lower mold in a condition where the upper mold supporting part is elevated with the elevator device in such a way that the upper mold is retreated above the lower mold; and a tire supporting part that is supported by the upper mold supporting part and configured to be movable between a supporting position and a retreated position, a bottom side of the vulcanized tire being supported at a peripheral side of the vulcanized tire closer to the outside of the vulcanized tire than a pushed-up position of the vulcanized tire pushed upward by the lift device in the supporting position, and the retreated position being positioned at the peripheral side of the vulcanized tire farther from the pushed-up position than the supporting position of the vulcanized tire, wherein the upper mold supporting part is provided with a dome part into which a steam for vulcanizing is supplied, and the tire supporting part is provided in the dome part.