Patent ID: 8714954
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: B29D

Abstract:
1. A tire vulcanizer comprising: a support member that supports an upper mold attaching member and a lower mold attaching member; a first rack that is provided to the support member along a height direction of a mold and includes a plurality of teeth, the mold including an upper mold placed in the upper mold attaching member and a lower mold placed in the lower mold attaching member; a second rack that is provided to the upper mold attaching member or the lower mold attaching member, meshes with the first rack, and includes a plurality of teeth; a first driving unit that relatively moves one of the first rack and the second rack with respect to the other thereof, meshes the first rack and the second rack with each other to fix the two racks to each other, and cancels the mesh between the first rack and the second rack; and a second driving unit that moves the second rack in the height direction of the mold with respect to the upper mold attaching member or the lower mold attaching member while keeping a height of the upper mold attaching member or the lower mold attaching member constant.