PATENT DOCUMENT

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a tire having first color characters or lines on at least one side wall part, includes the steps of stamping a second color side wall rubber and a first color side wall rubber on the side face of a carcass member formed in a toroidal shape by winding, a plurality of turns, a continuous second color rubber ribbon and a continuous first color rubber ribbon thereon, stamping a second color cover rubber on the outsides of the side wall rubbers by winding a rubber sheet whereon one turn in an annular shape, and molding a green tire, whereby the use of a large extrude can be eliminated, different types of tires can be efficiently manufactured since a size switching can be easily performed, the accuracies of the shape and the dimensions of the members thereof can be increased, the uniformity and the tire balance thereof can be increased, and the sharp profile of the first color characters or lines can be assumed, thus eliminating problems associated with the appearance.

Full Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION  
       [0001]     The present invention relates to a tire having characters or lines in color different from the surroundings on a side wall part, its manufacturing method and a device used for the manufacturing method and particularly to efficient manufacturing of a high-quality tire with sharp profiles of characters or lines and furthermore to a method and an apparatus for stamping a rubber sheet member.  
       BACKGROUND ART  
       [0002]     A method for manufacturing a tire is proposed in which a green tire is shaped by stamping each of tire-constitutional members on the outside of a toroidal-shape carcass member fixed onto a rigid core or a shaping drum and vulcanizing it in order to make the shape of a product tire or dimensions of each of the members highly accurate. In this manufacturing method, a rubber member among these tire-constitutional members is stamped by winding a continuous rubber ribbon in plural turns, and according to this manufacturing method, when compared with the case where a rubber having a cross section corresponding to a cross section of a member in the product tire is wound only once for formation, there is no need to extrude a rubber member with a large cross-section which can reduce the size of an extruder and moreover, by directly winding a rubber ribbon extruded from a smaller-sized extruder onto a toroidal-shape carcass member, the need of a large amount of an intermediate stock of members which has been necessary for production of other types of tires can be eliminated.  
         [0003]     Also, when shaping green tires in different sizes, members with different cross sections can be formed with a rubber ribbon in the same cross sectional shape only by changing the number of times or position of winding and it has a feature that green tires in difference sizes can be formed continuously.  
         [0004]     Moreover, the tire made of the rubber member formed by winding the rubber ribbon in plural turns in this way becomes high quality in the uniformity and tire balance, since there is no joint across the total width of each member.  
         [0005]     However, it has been found out that the following problem may occur if this manufacturing method is applied to a tire having characters or lines different in color from the surroundings on the side wall part.  
         [0006]      FIG. 1  is a perspective view showing a portion of a side wall part of a product tire on which the character “I” is formed in white, for example.  FIG. 2  is a sectional view corresponding to II-II arrow view in  FIG. 1  showing the state in the middle of manufacture of the tire portion where this character is formed, and FIGS.  3 ( a ) and  3 ( b ) are a sectional view and a perspective view showing the detail of this character portion in the product tire. In  FIG. 1 , B indicates a black rubber portion and W for a white rubber portion, and in FIGS.  1  to  3 ( a ) and  3 ( b ), T is an arrow showing the circumferential direction of the tire. The a-a arrow view in  FIG. 3 ( b ) corresponds with the cross section of  FIG. 3 ( a ).  
         [0007]     In order to form this white character, as shown in  FIG. 2 ( a ), at the stage to shape a green tire, after a black side wall rubber  92  is stamped on the outside of a carcass member  91  to be a base, a black cover rubber  93  is stamped on a side wall part on which the white character is to be expressed. And in vulcanizing this green tire, as shown in  FIG. 2 ( b ), the white character portion is projected from the other portions using a mold with a recess portion corresponding to the white character.  
         [0008]     Then, as shown in  FIG. 3 ( a ), the projected portion is buffed to remove the cover rubber  93 , and the white side wall rubber  92  appears from under it and the white character can be formed. However, if the cover rubber  93  is formed by overlapping a narrow-width ribbon, as shown in  FIG. 3 ( b ), a step between the ribbons appears on a cross section  93   a  in which the over-lapping portion between the ribbons is buffed, which causes a problem on appearance. Even if the ribbon is wound so that a gap between the ribbons becomes zero in order to solve the problem, it is actually difficult to bring this gap to zero, and a gap or overlapping will occur and the problem on appearance has not been solved yet.  
         [0009]     The present invention has been made in view of the above problem and has an object to provide a tire having characters or lines in color different from the surroundings on a side wall part, a manufacturing method in which a large extruder is not needed, the other types of tires can be efficiently manufactured since size switching is easy, the shape and the dimensions of the members are highly accurate, the uniformity and the tire balance are excellent and a tire with sharp profiles of characters or lines and having no problem on appearance, a tire manufactured with the manufacturing method and a device used in this manufacturing method.  
       DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION  
       [0010]     The present invention was made in order to achieve the above object, and its gist, constitution and action will be described below.  
         [0011]     (1) The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a tire having, on at least one side wall, a first color side wall rubber expressed as characters or lines, second color side wall rubbers, each of which is located on both sides in the radial direction of this first color side wall rubber, and a second color cover rubber covering the first color side wall rubber portion other than the characters or lines, wherein:  
         [0012]     each of the second color side wall rubber and the first color side wall rubber is stamped on the side face of a carcass member formed in the toroidal-shape by winding a continuous second color rubber ribbon and a continuous first color rubber ribbon in plural turns and then, said cover rubber is stamped on the outside of these side wall rubbers by winding a rubber sheet in one turn in the annular state so as to shape a green tire, and  
         [0013]     in vulcanizing the green tire, using a mold having a recess portion corresponding to the characters or lines, a projecting portion corresponding this recess portion is formed on the tire, and after vulcanization, the projecting portion on the tire is buffed to have the first color characters or lines to be expressed.  
         [0014]     Here, the “second color” means a color to be the base color of the tire and normally black, while the “first color” means a color used as decoration of characters or lines in contrast with the “second color” and white is widely used as the “first color.” 
         [0015]     According to the present invention, since the side wall rubbers are stamped on the side face of the toroidally formed carcass member by winding the rubber ribbon in plural turns, a large extruder for extruding the side wall rubber is not needed, size switching is easy, the other types of tires can be efficiently manufactured, and moreover, a tire with highly accurate shape and dimensions of each member and excellent uniformity and tire balance can be manufactured. And also, since the cover rubber is stamped by winding the rubber sheet in one turn, a zigzag step on the profiles of the first color characters or lines which would appear if this is formed by winding the rubber ribbon in plural turns can be eliminated so that the profiles are made sharp and the problem on appearance can be prevented. Since the cover rubber is a thin member and such a rubber member that one with the same cross section can be used for the tire of another size, in the point that a large-sized extruder is not needed, and that many types of tires can be manufactured efficiently, there is no difference from the case where this is formed by winding the rubber ribbon in plural turns.  
         [0016]     (2) The present invention further provides a method of manufacturing a tire according to item (1), wherein the leading end of a long rubber sheet arranged on a tangent of an annular band on the side wall rubber to be a stamping face of said cover rubber is held, and this leading end is moved and pressed onto the annular band and then, the rubber sheet is stamped onto the annular band by rotating the carcass member around its central axis while applying a tension to this rubber sheet, the rotation of the carcass member is stopped and then, an unstamped portion of the long rubber sheet is cut off and the unstamped portion to be the rear end of the rubber sheet on the annular band is pressed onto the annular band so as to stamp the cover rubber.  
         [0017]     According to this aspect of the present invention, since the cover rubber is stamped by rotating the carcass member around its central axis, a large stamping apparatus is not needed but stamping can be carried out easily, and in rotating the carcass member, a tension is applied to the rubber sheet and no wrinkle is generated on the stamped cover rubber.  
         [0018]     (3) The present invention further provides a method of manufacturing a tire according to item (2), wherein, in cutting the long rubber sheet extending on said tangent to form the leading end and the rear end of said rubber sheet, both the cut-off faces of the leading end and the rear end of the rubber sheet are inclined with respect to the width direction of the long sheet, and the long rubber sheet is cut off so that, in the cut-off face of the rubber sheet leading end, the end in the width direction to be the outside in the radial direction on the annular band is located closer to the front in the traveling direction of the long sheet than the end in the width direction to be the inside in the radial direction, while in the cut-off face of the rubber sheet rear end, the end in the width direction to be the outside in the radial direction on the annular band is located closer to the rear in the traveling direction of the long sheet than the end in the width direction to be the inside in the radial direction, and  
         [0019]     a rubber sheet portion in the shape of a trapezoid or a triangle defined by the cut-off face of the rear end of the rubber sheet stamped first and the cut-off face of the leading end of the rubber sheet to be stamped next is removed.  
         [0020]     According to this aspect of the present invention, the long rubber sheet is cut off so that, in the cut-off face of the rubber-sheet leading end, the end in the width direction to be the outside in the radial diction on the annular band is located closer to the front in the traveling direction of the long sheet than the end in the width direction to be the inside in the radial direction and in the cut-off face of the rubber sheet rear end, the end in the width direction to be the outside in the radial direction on the annular band is located closer to the rear in the traveling direction of the long sheet than the end in the width direction to be the inside in the radial direction, and as will be described in detail later, the rubber sheet can be arranged with its leading end and terminating end in parallel with each other when stamped on the annular band, and as a result, the rubber-sheet overlapping portion between the leading end and the terminating end can be minimized both in inside and outside in the radial direction, which contributes to improvement of tire unbalance.  
         [0021]     (4) The present invention further provides a method of manufacturing a tire according to item (1), wherein, in stamping said cover rubber onto the annular band on the side wall to be the stamping face, the rubber sheet extruded through a die is passed through a gap formed by arranging large-diameter sides and small-diameter sides of a pair of truncated conical rollers opposite to each other and rolled, and immediately after rolling of this rubber sheet, the rubber sheet is stamped in the annular state so that the rubber sheet side rolled by the large-diameter truncated conical roller is made to correspond with the outside in the radial direction of the annular band while the side rolled by the small-diameter truncated conical roller is made to correspond with the inside in the annular band.  
         [0022]     According to this aspect of the present invention, since the rubber sheet side rolled by the large-diameter side of truncated conical roller is made to correspond with the outside in the radial direction of the annular band, while the side rolled by the small-diameter side of truncated conical roller is made to correspond with the inside in the radial direction of the annular band, respectively, expansion and contraction of the rubber sheet when stamping it on the annular band can be minimized, and as a result, remaining stress of the rubber sheet member stamped on the side of a body of rotation can be reduced whether it is inside or outside in the radial direction, and even a wide rubber sheet can be stamped by restricting deformation during and after stamping and stabling dimensions of the rubber sheet.  
         [0023]     (5) The present invention further provides a method of manufacturing a tire according to item (4), wherein said gap is made uniform over the width direction when rolling the rubber sheet.  
         [0024]     According to this aspect of the present invention, since the gap between the pair of truncated conical rollers is made approximately uniform over the width direction, the rubber sheet member of the uniform thickness in the radial direction can be formed in the annular state without excessive expansion or contraction.  
         [0025]     (6) The present invention further provides a method of manufacturing a tire according to item (4) or (5), wherein after the rolled rubber sheet is wound around one of the truncated conical rollers by a predetermined angle, the rubber sheet is transferred from this truncated conical roller to the annular band while pressing the wound rubber sheet onto the annular band.  
         [0026]     According to this aspect of the present invention, the rolled rubber sheet can be directly transferred from the truncated conical roller to the annular band, the rolled rubber sheet can be securely stamped on the annular band and the apparatus can be simplified without requiring an exclusive pressing roller for pressing the rubber sheet onto the annular band.  
         [0027]     (7) The present invention further provides a method of manufacturing a tire in any one of items (4) to (6), wherein the rubber sheet wound around said one of the truncated conical rollers is cut off in the width direction on this truncated conical roller.  
         [0028]     According to this aspect of the present invention, since the rubber sheet is cut in the width direction on the truncated conical roller, the portion to be the leading end of the rubber sheet to be wound next on the side face of the annular band can be held on the truncated conical roller, and in the next winding of the rubber sheet, the leading end of the rubber sheet can be easily transferred to the annular band by pressing the portion in which the leading end of the rubber sheet is held on the truncated conical roller, and by this, the leading end portion of the rubber sheet can be accurately positioned on the annular band.  
         [0029]     (8) The present invention further provides a cover rubber stamping device used in the method of manufacturing a tire according to item (2) or (3), comprising  
         [0030]     a rubber sheet delivery means for delivering said long rubber sheet, a tensioner for applying a tension to the delivered long rubber sheet, a leading-end holding part for holding the leading end of the long rubber sheet, a leading-end holding part displacing means for displacing this leading-end holding part back and forth between a holding start position and a holding end position, a pressing roller for pressing the rubber sheet across the leading end to the rear end onto said annular band, a rubber sheet guide mechanism for regulating an entry position of the long rubber sheet into the annular band, and a cutter for forming the leading end and the rear end of the rubber sheet by cutting said long sheet.  
         [0031]     According to this aspect of the present invention, a cover rubber can be easily stamped by the above constitution.  
         [0032]     (9) The present invention further provides a cover rubber stamping device according to item (8), wherein said leading end holding part is to hold the rubber sheet leading end by vacuum adsorption.  
         [0033]     According to this aspect of the present invention, since only one face of the rubber sheet leading end is held by vacuum adsorption so as to transfer the other face to the annular band, the rubber sheet can be held at the very end, and the size of the leading end which is a non-deformed area can be minimized.  
         [0034]     (10) The present invention further provides a cover rubber stamping device according to item (8) or (9), wherein double blades inclined in reverse orientation from each other with respect to the face crossing the long rubber sheet delivery direction are disposed on said cutter, and anvils for receiving these blades and a cutter displacing means for displacing the cutter in the direction crossing the rubber sheet face arranged on the anvil are provided, and a gap for removing a trapezoidal or triangular rubber sheet portion cut off by the double blades is arranged between these anvils.  
         [0035]     According to this aspect of the present invention, as mentioned above, a manufacturing method which can minimize overlapping between the leading end and the rear end of the rubber sheet can be realized easily, and tire unbalance can be improved.  
         [0036]     (11) The present invention further provides a cover rubber stamping device used in the method of manufacturing a tire according to any one of items (4) to (7), comprising  
         [0037]     an extruder for extruding the rubber sheet through a die, a rolling machine consisting of a pair of truncated conical rollers arranged with their large-diameter sides and the small-diameter sides corresponding with each other, and a cutter for cutting off the rolled rubber sheet in the width direction.  
         [0038]     According to this aspect of the present invention, the rubber sheet member can be stamped annularly by winding a wide rubber sheet only once uniformly without expansion or contraction by the above constitution.  
         [0039]     (12) The present invention further provides a cover rubber stamping device according to item (11), wherein said rolling machine is provided between the pair of truncated conical rollers with almost a uniform gap over the width direction.  
         [0040]     According to this aspect of the present invention, because of the action of the uniform gap, as mentioned above, the rubber sheet member of the uniform thickness in the radial direction can be formed annularly.  
         [0041]     (13) The present invention further provides a cover rubber stamping device according to item (11) or (12), wherein the large-diameter side of one of the truncated conical rollers is arranged opposite to the outside in the radial direction of the annular band and the small-diameter side of this roller to the inside in the radial direction of the annular band in the stamping posture of the rubber sheet onto said annular band.  
         [0042]     According to this aspect of the present invention, as mentioned above, the rolled rubber sheet can be transferred directly from the truncated conical roller to the annular band, the rolled rubber sheet can be securely stamped onto the annular band and the device can be constituted in the simplified way without requiring an exclusive pressing roller for pressing the rubber sheet onto the annular band.  
         [0043]     (14) The present invention further provides a cover rubber stamping device according to any one of items (11) to (13), wherein an opening of the die of the extruder is made into the slit state whose width is gradually increased from one end to the other end, and the wide side end of the opening is arranged corresponding to the large diameter side of the truncated conical roller and the narrow side end of the opening corresponding to the small diameter side of the truncated conical roller.  
         [0044]     According to this aspect of the present invention, since the opening of the die of the extruder is made in the slit state whose width is gradually increased from one end to the other end and arranged as above, a large amount of rubber is extruded to the large diameter side of the truncated conical roller with a large rubber rolling capacity, while a small amount of rubber is extruded to the small diameter side of the truncated conical roller with a small rubber rolling capacity so that balance of the rubber amounts along the width direction of the truncated conical roller can be optimized, and the annular rubber sheet member with the more uniform layer thickness and less deformation can be formed.  
         [0045]     (15) The present invention further provides a tire in which at least one side wall is comprised of a first color side wall rubber expressed as characters or lines, a second color side wall rubbers located on both sides in the radial direction of this first color side wall rubber, respectively, and a cover rubber in the second color covering a first-color side wall rubber portion other than the characters or lines, wherein:  
         [0046]     the first color side wall rubbers and their second color side wall rubber are made of a continuous rubber ribbon wound in plural turns, respectively, and the cover rubber is made of a single thin annular rubber sheet.  
         [0047]     According to this aspect of the present invention, as mentioned above, a large-sized extruder for extruding the side wall rubber is not required in its production, size switching is easy and tires of another type can be manufactured efficiently, and a tire of highly accurate shape and dimensions of each member and excellent uniformity and tire balance can be provided. Moreover, since the cover rubber is constituted by a single thin annular rubber sheet, the profiles of the first color characters or lines can be made sharp and the problem on appearance can be prevented.  
         [0048]     (16) The present invention further provides a method of stamping a rubber sheet member in the annular state on a side face of a body of rotation, wherein:  
         [0049]     a leading end of a long rubber sheet arranged on a tangent of an annular band on the side face of the body of rotation to be a stamping face of the rubber sheet member is held, and the leading end is transferred onto the annular band and pressed and then, the rubber sheet is stamped onto the annular band by rotating the body of rotation around its central axis while applying a tension to this rubber sheet, after the rotation of the body of rotation is stopped, an unstamped portion of the long rubber sheet is cut off, and the unstamped portion to be the rear end of the rubber sheet on the annular band is pressed onto the annular band to stamp the rubber sheet member.  
         [0050]     (17) The present invention further provides a method of stamping a rubber sheet member according to item (16), wherein in cutting the long rubber sheet extending on said tangent so as to form the leading end and the rear end of said rubber sheet, both the cut-off faces of the leading end and the rear end of the rubber sheet are inclined with respect to the width direction of the long sheet, and the long rubber sheet is cut off so that, in the cut-off face of the rubber sheet leading end, the end in the width direction to be the outside in the radial direction on the annular band is located closer to the front in the traveling direction of the long sheet than the end in the width direction to be the inside in the radial direction, while in the cut-off face of the rubber sheet rear end, the end in the width direction to be the outside in the radial direction on the annular band is located closer to the rear in the traveling direction of the long sheet than the end in the width direction to be the inside in the radial direction, and  
         [0051]     a rubber sheet portion in the shape of a trapezoid or a triangle defined by the cut-off face of the rear end of the rubber sheet stamped first and the cut-off face of the leading end of the rubber sheet to be stamped next is removed.  
         [0052]     (18) The present invention further provides a method of stamping a rubber sheet member on a side face of a body of rotation in the annular state, wherein:  
         [0053]     a rubber sheet extruded through a die is passed through a gap formed by arranging large-diameter sides and small-diameter sides of a pair of truncated conical rollers opposite to each other for rolling, and immediately after rolling of this rubber sheet, the rubber sheet is stamped in the annular state so that the rubber sheet side rolled by the large-diameter truncated conical roller is made to correspond with the outside in the radial direction of the side face of the body of rotation while the side rolled by the small-diameter truncated conical roller is made to correspond with the inside in the radial direction of the side face of the body of rotation.  
         [0054]     (19) The present invention further provides a method of stamping a rubber sheet member according to item (18), wherein said gap is made uniform over the width direction so as to roll the rubber sheet.  
         [0055]     (20) The present invention further provides a method of stamping a rubber sheet member according to item (18) or (19), wherein after the rolled rubber sheet is wound around one of the truncated conical rollers by a predetermined angle, the rubber sheet is transferred from this truncated conical roller to the body of rotation while pressing the wound rubber sheet onto the body of rotation.  
         [0056]     (21) The present invention further provides a method of stamping a rubber sheet member, wherein the rubber sheet wound around said one of the truncated conical rollers is cut off in the width direction on this truncated conical roller.  
         [0057]     (22) The present invention further provides a device used for the stamping method of a rubber sheet member according to item (16) or (17), comprising;  
         [0058]     a rubber sheet delivery means for delivering said long rubber sheet, a tensioner for applying a tension to the delivered long rubber sheet, a leading-end holding part for holding the leading end of the long rubber sheet, a leading-end holding part displacing means for displacing this leading-end holding part back and force between a holding start position and a holding end position, a pressing roller for pressing the rubber sheet across the leading end to the rear end onto said annular band, a rubber sheet guide mechanism for regulating an entry position of the long rubber sheet into the annular band, and a cutter for forming the leading end and the rear end of the rubber sheet by cutting said long sheet.  
         [0059]     (23) The present invention further provides a rubber sheet member stamping device according to item (22), wherein said leading-end holding part is to hold the rubber sheet leading end by vacuum adsorption.  
         [0060]     (24) The present invention further provides a rubber sheet member stamping device according to item (22) or (23), wherein double blades inclined in the reverse orientation from each other with respect to the face crossing the long rubber sheet delivery direction are disposed on said cutter, and anvils for receiving these blades and a cutter displacing means for displacing the cutter in the direction crossing the rubber sheet face arranged on the anvil are provided, and a gap for removing a trapezoidal or triangular rubber sheet portion left after cutting by the double blades is arranged between these anvils.  
         [0061]     (25) The present invention further provides a device used for the stamping method of a rubber sheet member according to any one of items (18) to (21), comprising:  
         [0062]     an extruder for extruding a rubber sheet through a die, a rolling machine consisting of a pair of truncated conical rollers arranged with their large-diameter sides and the small-diameter sides corresponding with each other, and a cutter for cutting off the rolled rubber sheet in the width direction.  
         [0063]     (26) The present invention further provides a rubber sheet member stamping device according to item (25), wherein said rolling machine is provided between the pair of truncated conical rollers with almost a uniform gap over the width direction.  
         [0064]     (27) The present invention further provides a rubber sheet member stamping device according to item (25) or (26), wherein the large-diameter side of one of the truncated conical rollers is arranged opposite to the outside in the radial direction of the side face of the body of rotation and the small-diameter side of this roller to the inside In the radial direction of the side face of the body of rotation in the winding posture of the rubber sheet onto the body of rotation.  
         [0065]     (28) The present invention further provides a rubber sheet member stamping device according to any one of items (25) to (27), wherein an opening of the die of the extruder is made into the slit state whose width is gradually increased from one end to the other end, and the wide side end of the opening is arranged corresponding to the large diameter side of the truncated conical roller and the narrow side end of the opening corresponding to the small diameter side of the truncated conical roller.  
         [0066]     Among the above inventions, the aspects according to items (16) to (28) can provide the same action as those described for the aspects regarding to the cover rubber according to items (2) to (14) corresponding to this order of the annular state rubber member. Hence, the explanation of the action of these aspects have been omitted so as to avoid duplicative explanations. 
     
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS  
       [0067]      FIG. 1  is a perspective view showing a character portion expressed on the surface of a product tire.  
         [0068]     FIGS.  2 ( a ) and  2 ( b ) are sectional views showing the state in the middle of manufacture of the character portion, respectively.  
         [0069]     FIGS.  3 ( a ) and  3 ( b ) are a sectional view and a perspective view showing the detail of the character portion in the prior art, respectively.  
         [0070]      FIG. 4  is a sectional view showing a quarter part of a tire of a preferred embodiment of the preset invention on the meridional cross-section.  
         [0071]      FIG. 5  is a perspective view showing a detailed portion of a part of the character.  
         [0072]     FIGS.  6 ( a ) to  6 ( c ) are meridional cross sectional views of a green tire for explaining the process for shaping a green tire by stamping a side wall rubber, respectively.  
         [0073]      FIG. 7  is a perspective view showing a method of forming a side wall rubber by winding a rubber ribbon.  
         [0074]     FIGS.  8 ( a ) and  8 ( b ) are schematic diagrams showing a side face of a green tire being shaped, respectively.  
         [0075]      FIGS. 9   a  and  9   b  are schematic diagrams showing a side face of a green tire in the process subsequent to FIGS.  8 ( a ) and  8 ( b ), respectively.  
         [0076]      FIG. 10  is a front view showing an overlapping portion between a leading end and a rear end of a rubber sheet.  
         [0077]      FIG. 11  is a perspective view showing a cut-off portion of a long sheet.  
         [0078]      FIG. 12  is a front view showing an overlapping portion between a leading end and a rear end of a rubber sheet.  
         [0079]      FIG. 13  is a partial schematic sectional view of a cover rubber stamping device shown on the face in parallel with a central axis of rotation of a carcass member.  
         [0080]      FIG. 14  is a diagram for explaining operation of a cover rubber stamping device.  
         [0081]     FIGS.  15 ( a ) and  15 ( b ) are diagrams for explaining operation of a cover rubber stamping device subsequent to  FIG. 14 .  
         [0082]      FIG. 16  is a perspective view showing a cover rubber stamping device of another preferred embodiment.  
         [0083]     FIGS.  17 ( a ) and  17 ( b ) are partial sectional views showing relative arrangement of a rolling machine and a carcass member.  
         [0084]      FIG. 18  is a front view showing an opening of a die.  
         [0085]     FIGS.  19 ( a ) to  19 ( d ) are diagrams for explaining a method of stamping a rubber sheet onto an annular band.  
         [0086]      FIG. 20  is a partial sectional view showing a cover rubber stamping device provided with exclusive pressing rollers. 
     
    
     BEST MODE FOR CARRYING-OUT OF THE INVENTION  
       [0087]     Below, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described referring to drawings.  FIG. 4  is a meridional cross sectional view showing a cross section of a half on which characters or lines in color different from the surroundings are provided among halves divided by the equatorial cross section in a tire of a preferred embodiment according to the present invention. In a tire  1 , a side wall  2  arranged on one side in the axial direction of a carcass  8  is comprised of a first color side wall rubber  3  expressed as a character  3   a,  second color side wall rubbers  4 A and  4 B located on both sides in the radial direction of the first color side wall rubber  3 , respectively, and a second color cover rubber  5  covering the first color side wall rubber  3  other than the character  3   a,  the first color side wall rubber  3  and the second color side wall rubbers  4 A and  4 B are made of a continuous first color rubber ribbon  3   r  and a second color rubber ribbon  4   r  wound in plural turns, respectively, and the cover rubber is made of a single thin annular rubber sheet  5   s.  Here, the first color is white, for example, while the second color is black, for example.  
         [0088]     In the figures, both boundary surfaces of the first color side wall rubber  3  with the second color side wall rubbers  4 A and  4 B are arranged with being inclined in almost parallel, but these boundary surfaces may be inclined in the reverse orientation from each other, and either of the radial extending width outside in the axial direction or the radial extending width inside in the axial direction of the first color side wall rubber  3  can be larger and moreover, the second color side wall rubbers  4 A and  4 D can be continuous inside in the axial direction of the fist color side wall rubber  3 .  
         [0089]     The side wall which is not shown but arranged on the other side in the axial direction of the carcass  8  is comprised of the continuous second color rubber ribbon  4   r  wound in plural turns in all the areas, and in  FIG. 6  represents a tread,  8  is a belt and  9  is a bead core. The tread  6  is also made of a continuous rubber ribbon wound in plural turns.  
         [0090]      FIG. 5  is a perspective view showing a detailed portion of a part of the character  3   a  shown in correspondence with  FIG. 3 ( b ) used above, and since the cover rubber  5  is constituted by a single thin annular rubber sheet  5   s,  a zigzag-state step does not appear around the character  3   a,  and the profile of the character  3   a  extending in the direction crossing the tire circumferential direction T can be also expressed sharply.  
         [0091]     Next, a method of manufacturing this tire  1  will be explained.  FIG. 6  is a meridional cross sectional view of a green tire for explaining a process to shape a green tire by stamping the side wall on the side having characters or lines, and first, as shown in  FIG. 6 ( a ), a carcass member  18  is toroidally formed on the outside of a shaping drum or a rigid core, not shown, and  FIG. 6 ( a ) shows the state where a belt member  17  and a tread rubber  18  have been already stamped outside in the radial direction on the so formed carcass member  18 . After the state shown in  FIG. 6 ( a ), with regard to the side wall on the side having the characters or lines, a second color side wall rubber  14 A outside in the radial direction is stamped by winding a continuous second color rubber ribbon  14   r  in plural turns, as shown in  FIG. 6 ( b ), and next, a first color side wall rubber  13  is stamped by winding a continuous first color rubber ribbon  13   r  in plural turns and subsequently, a second color side wall rubber  14 B inside in the radial direction is stamped by winding a continuous second color rubber ribbon  14   r  in plural turns. After that, as shown in  FIG. 6 ( c ), a cover rubber  15  is stamped outside these side wall rubbers  13 ,  14 A and  14 B by winding a rubber sheet  15   s  annularly in one turn so as to shape the green tire  10 .  
         [0092]     The order to stamp the side wall rubbers  13 ,  14 A and  14 B, here, can be determined as appropriate depending on how to laminate the rubber ribbons.  
         [0093]     After that, if the green tire  10  is formed on the shaping drum, the green tire  10  is removed from the shaping drum and transferred to a vulcanizing machine, while if the green tire  10  is formed on the rigid core, the green tire  10  is not removed from the rigid core but transferred to the vulcanizing machine together with the rigid core so as to vulcanize the green tire  10  by the vulcanizing machine.  
         [0094]     In vulcanizing the green tire  10 , according to the above-mentioned prior art, using a mold having a recess portion corresponding to the characters or lines, a projecting portion corresponding to this recess portion is formed on the tire and after vulcanization, the projecting portion of the tire is buffed to express the first color characters or lines.  
         [0095]     Here, the side wall rubbers  13 ,  14 A and  14 B can be stamped by a known method of winding the rubber ribbon, and  FIG. 7  shows one example. On the side face of the carcass member  18  formed on the shaping drum, not shown, in the case of the second color side wall rubber  14 A, for example, the leading end of the second color rubber ribbon  14   r  is pressed and then, while controlling the position of the second color rubber ribbon  14   r  in the radial direction and moving a stamping roller  61  for pressing this onto the side face of the carcass member  18 , the shaping drum is rotated in the R direction in plural turns so as to stamp the second color side wall rubber  14 A. At this time, the second color rubber ribbon  14   r  is extruded through an extruder  62  synchronously with the winding by the amount by which the second color rubber ribbon  14   r  is wound. By providing a festoon  63 , unbalance between the winding amount and the extrusion amount of the second color rubber ribbon  14   r  can be adjusted.  
         [0096]     According to this manufacturing method, the extruder  62  can be made small-sized, one type of the rubber ribbon  14   r  can form rubber members in various sectional shapes, and moreover, size can be switched only by choosing a trajectory program for displacing the stamping roller  61  from those stored in advance in correspondence with each size and by calling and starting it, by which instantaneous size switching is enabled and manufacturing of small amount in other types can be realized efficiently.  
         [0097]     Next, a method of stamping the cover rubber  15  and a device for that will be explained.  FIGS. 8 and 9  are schematic diagrams showing the side face of the green tire in the middle of shaping, and in order to stamp the cover rubber  15 , first, as shown in  FIG. 8 ( a ), a leading end  15   f  of the long rubber sheet  15   s  arranged on a tangent G of an annular band  12   a  on the side wall rubber  12 , to be the stamping face for the cover rubber  15 , having been already stamped on the outside of the carcass member  18  is held, and then, as shown in  FIG. 8 ( b ), this leading end  15   f  is moved onto the annular band  12   a  and pressed. And as shown in  FIG. 9 ( a ), the carcass member  18  is rotated around its central axis in the direction of the arrow R while applying a tension to the rubber sheet  15   s  so as to stamp the rubber sheet  15   s  on the annular band, and after the rotation of the carcass member  18  is stopped, as shown in  FIG. 9 ( b ), an unstamped portion of the long rubber sheet  15   s  is cut off in the cut-off face C extending in the width direction of the long rubber sheet  15   s.  Next, the unstamped portion to be a rear end  15   e  of the rubber sheet wound in the annular state is pressed onto the annular band  12   a  to complete stamping of the cover rubber  15 .  
         [0098]      FIG. 10  is a view of an overlapping portion between the leading end  15   f  and the rear end  15   e  of the rubber sheet  15   s  seen from the axial direction of the green tire  10  after the cover rubber  15  has been stamped, and an area A 1  on the large arc side of the cover rubber  15  defined by a straight lines L 1  and L 2  extending in the radial direction from the central axis O of rotation of the carcass member  18  is an area stamped by rotation of the carcass member  18  and deformed into the arc state, while the leading end  15   f  defined by the straight line L 1  and a starting end X 1  is a non-deformed area required for holding. So, the leading end  15   f  forms a rectangle, and the rear end  15   e  defined by the straight line L 2  and an terminating end X 2  is also a non-deformed area required for cutting and forms a rectangle, and as a result, in the overlapping portion between the leading end  15   f  and the rear end  15   e  defined by the starting end X 1  and the terminating end X 2 , an inner width j 2  in the radial direction is larger than an outer width j 1  in the radial direction. Then, even if the width j 1  is restrained to the minimum in order to reduce the overlapping portion for improvement of tire unbalance, the width j 2  can not be minimized, which is a problem.  
         [0099]      FIG. 11  is a perspective view showing a cut-off portion of the long sheet for explaining a method to solve the above problem. In forming said rubber sheet leading end  15   f  and the rear end  15   e.  by cutting off the long rubber sheet  15   s  extending on the tangent G, it is preferable to cut off the long rubber sheet  15   s  so that a cut-off face Y 1  of the rubber sheet leading end  15   f  and the cut-off face Y 2  of the rear end  15   e  are both inclined with respect to the width direction of the long sheet  15   s  by angles θ 1  and θ 2 , respectively, and in the cut-off face Y 1  of the rubber sheet leading end  15   f,  a width-direction end PY 1 A on the side to be outside in the radial direction on the annular band  12   a  is located closer to the front in the long sheet traveling direction shown by an arrow D than a width-direction end PY 1 B on the side to be the inside in the radial direction, while in the cut-off face Y 2  of the rubber sheet rear end  15   e,  a width-direction end PY 2 A on the side to be the outside in the radial direction on the annular band  12   a  is located closer to the rear in the long sheet traveling direction D than a width-direction end PY 2 B on the side to be the inside in the radial direction. When cutting is performed in this way, a rubber sheet portion AZ in the trapezoidal or triangular shape defined by the cut-off face Y 2  of the rear end  15   e  of the rubber sheet which has been stamped first and the cut-off face Y 1  of the leading end  15   f  of the rubber sheet to be stamped next is removed at each cutting.  
         [0100]      FIG. 12  is a view showing the overlapping portion between the leading end  15   f  and the rear end  15  when the rubber sheet  15   s  having been cut in this way is stamped on the annular band  12   a,  corresponding to  FIG. 10  used above, and the area A 1  on the large arc side of the cover rubber  15  defined by the straight lines L 1  and L 2  extending in the radial direction from the center of rotation O of the carcass member  18  is an area deformed in the arc state as in that shown in  FIG. 10 . And the leading end  15   f  defined by the straight line L 1  and the starting end Y 1  (that is, the cut-off face Y 1  of the leading end  15   f ) is a non-deformed area, but L 1  and X 1  are mutually inclined by the angle θ 1 , while the rear end  15   e  defined by the straight line L 2  and the terminating end X 2  (that is, the cut-off face Y 2  of the rear end  15   e ) is also a non-deformed area, but L 2  and X 2  are mutually inclined by the angle θ 2 , and unlike those shown in  FIG. 10 , the starting end X 1  and the terminating end X 2  can be made almost in parallel. By this, in the overlapping portion between the leading end  15   f  and the rear end  15   e,  the inner width j 2  in the radial direction and the outer width j 1  in the radial direction can be minimized, whereby tire unbalance can be improved.  
         [0101]     Next, a cover rubber stamping device used in stamping the above-mentioned cover rubber  15  will be explained.  FIG. 13  is a schematic partial sectional view of a cover rubber stamping device showing the state after the long rubber sheet  15   s  is cut in the plane in parallel with the central axis O of rotation of the carcass member  18  passing through the above tangent G. A cover rubber stamping device  20  is provided with a rubber sheet delivery means  21  for reeling the long rubber sheet  15   s  prepared by being wound around a reel, not shown, out of the reel for delivery, a tensioner  22  for applying a tension to the delivered long rubber sheet  15   s,  a leading end holding part  23  for holding the leading end  15   f  of the long rubber sheet, a leading-end holding part displacing means, not shown, for displacing this leading end holding part  23  back and forth between the holding start position and the holding end position, a pressing roller  24  for pressing the rubber sheet from the leading end  15   f  to the rear end  15   e  onto the annular band, a rubber sheet guide mechanism  25  for regulating an entry position of the long rubber sheet  15   s  into the annular band  12   a,  and a cutter  26  for forming the rubber sheet leading end  15   f  and the rear end  15   e  by cutting off said long sheet  15   s.  And these means are fixed or mounted capable of relative displacement onto a support member  35 .  
         [0102]     In  FIG. 13, 12   a  indicates an annular band to be the stamping face for the rubber sheet  15   s,  and the arrow R shows its circumferential direction. LA indicates a straight line corresponding to the position of the starting end Y 1  of the rubber sheet  15   s  to be wound.  
         [0103]     Here, the leading end holding part  23  is constituted to hold the rubber sheet leading end  15   f  by vacuum adsorption, and by this, only one face of the leading end  15   f  is held with the other face brought into contact with the annular band  12   a.  Thus, the rubber sheet can be held at the very end, and the size of the leading end  15   f  to be the non-deformed area can be minimized.  
         [0104]     As shown in the above  FIG. 11 , double blades  27 A and  27 B inclined in the reverse orientation from each other with respect to the face crossing the long rubber sheet delivery direction D are disposed on the cutter  26 . And the cover rubber stamping device  20  is provided with anvils  28 A and  28 B respectively receiving these blades  27 A and  27 B, and a cutter displacing means  29  for displacing the cutter in the direction D 2  crossing the rubber sheet face arranged on the anvils  28 A and  28 B, and between these anvils  28 A and  28 B, a gap  31  for removing a trapezoidal or triangular rubber sheet portion AZ cut off by the double blades  27 A and  27 B is arranged.  
         [0105]     In this FIG. the cutter displacing means  29  is constituted by a simple air cylinder, but another driving mechanism can also be used. Also, by arranging a buffer  32  made of rubber or urethane, for example, at a portion located between the cutter displacing means  29  and the double blades  27 A and  27 B of the cutter  26 , contact of the blades with the anvils  28 A and  28 B can be secured at any position.  
         [0106]     Also, the rubber sheet delivery means  21  is constituted to be operated by holding the rubber sheet  15   s  between a pair of delivery rollers  21   a  and  21   b  and by driving these delivery rollers  21   a  and  21   b  by a motor, not shown, and by setting the delivery speed at this time smaller than the circumferential speed of the annular band  12   a  on the above tangent G, a tension in the middle of winding can be applied to the rubber sheet  15   s  so that generation of wrinkles on the cover rubber  15  can be prevented.  
         [0107]     Moreover, the tensioner  22  is provided to completely prevent generation of wrinkles even at start and end of the winding. The tensioner  22  can be operated by pulling a tension roller  22   a  by a cylinder, not shown, and the tension is adjusted by adjusting the tensile force of the cylinder.  
         [0108]     It is preferable that the pressing roller  24  for pressing the rubber sheet  15   s  onto the annular band  12   a  is in the cone state having a large diameter on the side opposite to the outside of the annular band  12   a  in the radial direction and a small diameter on the side opposite to the inside of the annular band  12   a  in the radial direction. By this, a slip rate between the rubber sheet  15   s  and the pressuring roller  24  can be reduced almost to zero over the full length of the pressing roller  24 .  
         [0109]     Next, operation of the cover rubber stamping device  20  will be described referring to  FIGS. 14 and 15 . After the state shown in  FIG. 13 , vacuum is activated to hold the rubber sheet leading end  15   f  with the leading end holding part  23 , and the leading end holding part  23  is displaced to the state shown in  FIG. 14  so that the starting end Y 1  is located on the straight line LA. And next, from the shown state, the leading end holding part  23  is made closer to the annular band  12   a,  and then, the vacuum is deactivated, the holding of the leading end  15   f  is released and the leading end  15   f  is transferred to the annular band  12   a.  Al this time, in order to prevent interference with the leading end holding part  23 , the anvils  28 A and  28 B together with the support member  35  are separated away from the straight line LA, and the pressing roller  24  is also displaced in the direction opposite to the displacement direction of the anvils  28 A and  28 B.  
         [0110]     Then, as shown in  FIG. 15 ( a ), the leading end holding part  23 , the support member  35  and the pressing roller  24  are returned to the original position and then, the pressing roller  24  is made closer to press the leading end  15   f  onto the annular band  12   a,  and in that state, the carcass member  18  is rotated so that the rubber sheet  15   s  is stamped on the annular band  12   a.    
         [0111]     Then, after the carcass member  18  is rotated almost one turn, the rotation of the carcass member  18  is stopped and as shown in  FIG. 15 ( b ), the leading end holding part  23  is lowered to press the portion to be the leading end  15   f  of the rubber sheet  15   s,  and the cutter  26  is lowered so as to cut off the rubber sheet  15   s.  At this time, as mentioned above, the cut-off face Y 1  of the leading end and the cut-off face Y 2  of the rear end inclined opposite to each other with respect to the width direction of the rubber sheet is formed, and the rubber sheet portion AZ held between these cut-off faces is ejected through the gap  31  provided between the anvils  28 A and  28 B by operating an end rubber ejecting device, not shown. And after the cutter  26  is raised to the original standby position, the carcass member  18  is rotated by a micro angle, and the rear end  15   e  of the rubber sheet, which is an unstamped portion, is wound while being pressed by the pressing roller  24  to complete the operation of one cycle.  
         [0112]     Next, a preferred embodiment relating to the stamping method of the cover rubber  15  and the device for that, different from the above, will be described.  FIG. 16  is a perspective view showing a cover rubber stamping device for stamping the cover rubber  15  onto the annular band  12   a  of the side wall rubber  12  to be its stamping face. A cover rubber stamping device  40  is provided with a rolling machine  45  comprised of a large roller  46  and a small roller  47  constituting a pair of truncated conical rollers, an extruder  41  for extruding the rubber sheet into a gap formed between these rollers  46  and  47 , and a cutter  48  for cutting a rolled rubber sheet  50   s  in the width direction on the large roller  46 .  
         [0113]     The extruder  41  is provided with a gear pump part  43  for controlling an extrusion amount of the rubber sheet, a screw part  42  for plasticizing a rubber material and delivering it to the gear pump part  43 , and a die  44  for specifying the sectional shape of the extruded rubber sheet. And the rollers  46  and  47  of the rolling machine are driven by a motor and a chain, not shown, in synchronization with each other, and the cutter  48  can be brought closer to or separated from the large roller  46  by a cutter cylinder  49  at the predetermined timing, and by this operation, the rubber sheet  50   s  on the large roller  46  can be cut off in the width direction.  
         [0114]      FIG. 17  is a view showing the relative positions of the rolling machine  45  and the carcass member  18  on which the side wall rubber  12  has been already stamped, and  FIG. 17 ( a ) is a partial sectional view in the meridional cross section of the carcass member  18 , and  FIG. 17 ( b ) is a partial sectional view corresponding to the arrow view b-b of  FIG. 17 ( a ). The rolling machine  45  is for stamping the rubber sheet  50   s  to be the cover rubber  15  on the annular band  12   a  of the side wall rubber  12 , and the large roll  46  of the rolling machine  45  is arranged in contact with the annular band  12   a  through a slight gap, while the small roll  47  is provided on the side of the large roll  46  opposite to the carcass member  18  in contact with the large roll  46  through a gap g which is uniform in the width direction. And the tip end of the die  44  is arranged closer to this gap, and the cutter  48  is provided on the large roll  46  capable of separating and approaching along its radial direction on the gap side opposite to the die  44  side.  
         [0115]     Here, each of the outside and inside diameters of annular band  12   a  in the radial direction is set as D 0  and d 0 , and the diameters of the large roll  46  at both end positions of the rubber sheet  50   s  in the width direction is set as D 1  on the large diameter side and d 1  on the small diameter side. Similarly, the diameters of the small roll  47  at both end positions of the rubber sheet  50   s  in the width direction are set as D 2  on the large diameter side and d 2  on the small diameter side. Then, a relationship represented by an equation (1) is established among these D 0  to D 2  and d 0  to d 2 . By having the equation (1) established, the rubber sheet portion to be the outer circumference of the cover rubber  15  in the radial direction and the rubber sheet portion to be the inner circumference in the radial direction is elongated at the same elongation rate, and by decreasing this elongation rate, the cover rubber  15  whose dimension is stable at any portion can be formed. 
 
 D   0   /d   0   =D   1   /d   1   =D   2   /d   2    (1) 
 
         [0116]      FIG. 18  is a front view showing an opening  44   a  of the die  44 . This opening  44   a  is in the slit state, and when the opening width of one end is W 1  and the opening width of the other end is W 2 , W 1  and W 2  is in the relation satisfying an equation (2), and the width of the intermediate portion of the opening  44   a  is set so that it is linearly increased from one end to the other end. Also, the die  44  is arranged so that one end to be the narrow-side end of the opening  44   a  corresponds with the small diameter side of the roller  46  or  47 , while the other end to be the wide-side end of the opening  44   a  with the large diameter side of the roller  46  or  47 , and by this, a flow rate of the rubber passing through the wide-side end of the opening  44   a  is made larger than the flow rate of the rubber passing the narrow-side end so that a uniform elongation rate and thickness can be secured from the outside in the radial direction with longer circumferential length to the inside in the radial direction with shorter circumferential length of the cover rubber  15 . 
   W   1   /W   2   =D   1   /d   1   =D   2   /d   2    (2)  
 In the above-mentioned example, the width change between both ends of the opening  44   a  is made linear, but this can be nonlinear according to the desirable thickness distribution of the cover rubber to be stamped in the annular state. 
 
         [0117]      FIG. 19  is an explanatory diagram explaining a method of stamping the rubber sheet  50   s  on the annular band  12   a  using this cover rubber stamping device  40  and shows with the section corresponding to  FIG. 17 ( b ).  FIG. 19 ( a ) is a diagram showing the state immediately before beginning to wind the rubber sheet  50   s,  in which the tip end of the rubber sheet  50   s  is held on the circumference of the large roller  46  and the large roller  46  is stopped at the rotational position where the tip end of the rubber shoot  50   s  is the closest to the annular band  12   a.  After this state, the large roller  46  and the small roller  47  are made closer to the annular band  12   a  as shown by the arrow, and the tip end of the rubber sheet  50   s  is pressed onto the annular band  12   a.  Next as shown in  FIG. 19 ( b ), while the rubber sheet  50   s  is pressed between the large roller  46  and the annular band  12   a,  the large roller  46 , the small roller  47  and the carcass member  18  are rotated in synchronization, and the rubber sheet  50   s  is wound onto the annular band  12   a.    
         [0118]     And as shown in  FIG. 19 ( c ), when coming closer to the end of the single winding cycle, a portion of the rubber sheet  50   s  on the large roller  46  corresponding to the rear end of one cycle is cut off using the cutter  48 . The winding is resumed after that, but as shown in  FIG. 19 ( d ), at the stage where the tip end side of the cut-off portion approaches the annular band  12   a,  the large roller  6  is separated from the annular band  12   a,  and the large roller  46  is stopped at the rotation position exactly corresponding to  FIG. 19 ( a ). Moreover, when the carcass member  18  is slightly rotated, the rear end of the rubber sheet  50   s  is completely transferred onto the annular band  12   a,  and after the state shown in  FIG. 19 ( d ), by pressing the rear end of the rubber sheet  50   s  using another pressing roller or the like, the cover rubber  15  can be stamped. In this embodiment, the large roller  46  is provided with a pressing function to press the rubber sheet  50   s  onto the annular band  12   a,  but an exclusive pressing roller can be provided separately from the large roller  46 , and  FIG. 20  is a partial sectional view showing a cover rubber stamping device  40 A provided with this exclusive pressing roller  53  shown on the section corresponding to  FIG. 17 ( b ). The rubber sheet  50   s  rolled between the truncated conical large roller  46  and the small roller  47  is wound around the exclusive pressing roller  53  and pressed between the exclusive pressing roller  53  and the annular band  12   a  at the same time so that the cover rubber  15  can be stamped. In this case, a cutter  48   a  for processing the leading end and the rear end of the rubber sheet  50   s  is provided for cutting off the rubber sheet  50   s  on the exclusive pressing roller  53 .  
         [0119]     As above, the preferred embodiments of the tire having characters or lines in color different from the surroundings on at least one of side wall parts, its manufacturing method and the device used in this manufacturing method have been described, but constitution of the cover rubber stamping method and the cover rubber stamping device mentioned in the explanation is not applied only to the cover rubber but it can also be applied when formation of an annular rubber member on the side face of a body of ration becomes necessary, and in that case, the above “cover rubber” may be replaced with “annular rubber member” and the “carcass member (on which the side wall rubber is stamped)” with “body of rotation.” As an example to form the annular rubber member on the side face of the body of rotation, there can be such cases that it is preferable to form a side wall rubber with a single annular member due to manufacturing form or that a thin cover rubber is disposed on the entire surface of the outside of the side wall rubber formed by winding a rubber ribbon in plural turns.  
       INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY  
       [0120]     As obvious from mentioned above, according to the present invention relating to a tire having characters or lines in color different from the surroundings on the side wall part, a large extruder for extruding the side wall rubber is not needed, size switching is easy and tires of another type can be manufactured efficiently, and also, shapes and dimensions of each member is highly accurate and tires with excellent uniformity and tire balance can be manufactured. Moreover, since the cover rubber is stamped by winding the rubber sheet in one turn, the profiles of the first color characters or lines appearing when formed by winding the rubber ribbon in plural turns can be made sharper and a problem in appearance can be prevented.  
         [0121]     Also, with regard to the method and device of stamping the cover rubber in the annular state, this is not limited to stamping of the cover rubber but can be also applied to a side face of a general body of rotation, such a case where a rubber sheet is wound around a side face of a tire in one turn to form various types of annular rubber members, for example.