Patent ID: 6041841
Filing Date: 2000-03-28
Classification: B29D,B60C,Y10T

Abstract:
A machine for manufacturing a tire carcass half-reinforcement from one single filament wrapped around a bead wire, comprising:a central device allowing said tire bead wire to be held in a predetermined position.a lateral device holding a ring which has half as many hooks as there will be arches of carcass filament contained in the tire to be manufactured, said lateral device holding said ring a predetermined distance away from said bead wire and approximately concentric therewith, the planes of said bead wire and of said ring being substantially parallel, said hooks being spread out around the circumference of the ring,means for laying the filament for hooking the filament onto said hooks, forming a loop, the two strands of which are directed toward the bead wire and wrapped around it, each of the strands running on to the adjacent hook after wrapping around the bead wire.