Patent ID: 6976520
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: B29D

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for manufacturing a tire reinforcement, the apparatus being adapted to manufacture a reinforcement formed from a cord supplied continuously and on demand by a suitable distributor, the apparatus further being adapted for use in cooperation with a revolving form on which the reinforcement is progressively built up by depositing sections of cord along a desired trajectory for the cord on a surface of the form, the apparatus comprising: (a) an element for depositing cord on the surface of the form, describing an alternating path between two turning points; (b) a presser disposed proximate to each of said two turning points for applying the cord to the form at respective ends of the desired trajectory, and acting synchronously with the depositing element; (c) at least one mobile guide having a guiding edge radially elongated to extend radially along the form for at least part of the alternating path of the depositing element, said at least one mobile guide being disposed proximate to the form, and being arranged in a space between the form and a path described by the depositing element; (d) control means for moving the at least one mobile guide along a limited displacement oriented circumferentially relative to the form; and (e) motorization means for piloting the depositing element, the pressers and the control means of the at least one mobile guide in synchronization.