Patent GB-982031-A (GB)
Title: Bead placing and sealing apparatus for tyre building machine
IPC: B29D30/32
Filed: 1963-05-24
Abstract: 982,031. Tyre-building machines. NATIONAL-STANDARD CO. May 24, 1963 [May 24, 1962], No. 20886/63. Heading B7C.  Apparatus 38 (Fig. 1), for placing bead rings 45 over a cylindrical band of tyre fabric, comprises a support means carrying two bead ring holders 88, 89 (Fig. 2), each holder being adjustable between an open and a closed position (Fig. 5, not shown, and Fig. 6), a transport mechanism 50, 56 for axially moving the support means with its bead ring holders over the band and a release mechanism to open the holders and release the rings when in position. Fig. 1 shows a complete tyre building machine, in which a cylindrical band 32 is first built on fins 36 of a mandrel 34, apparatus 38 is moved axially to place the bead rings 45 and seal them to the band, and subsequently the mandrel 34 is pivoted and moved axially to deposit the band on an inflatable building bag 40 which is inflated to effect ply turnover and to expand the band into a tread held by tread carrier 42. The bead ring holders 88, 89 (Figs. 2, 6) each comprise two pairs of arcuate members 90, 92, 94, 96 and these are radially adjustable to accommodate various sizes of bead ring and axially adjustable (set screws 101, 105, 109) on three support rods 70. The rods slide in three tubes 68 (Fig. 2) rigidly mounted on cylinder head plate 52, and rods 70a, 70b are biased to rotate clockwise and anticlockwise respectively by assemblies 69 attached to their inner ends inside the tubes (details Fig. 7, not shown) so that the rods tend to adjust the bead ring holders from their open positions (Fig. 6) to their closed positions (Fig. 5, not shown), in which they retain their bead rings 45. An inflatable bag 64 mounted on a rigid drum 58 (Figs. 2, 4, 12) is carried on a shaft 56, moved by a cylinder 50, and a plate 114 is mounted at the axially inner end of the bag 64. In operation, starting from the position in Fig. 2, the bag 64 and plate 114 move rightwards. The plate 114 carries brackets 116, 118 with spring-loaded rider pins 119 which engage rods 70a, 70b, and at an intermediate position (Fig. 3, not shown), the rider pins drop into the ends of grooves 122a, 122b in the two rods, so that the rods and their bead holders then move axially with the bag 64 to the position of Fig. 4 and Fig. 11 (not shown). The bag 64 is inside the fins 36, on which the band of ply 32 is mounted, and the bead ring holders, with bead rings 45 held, encircle the bond outside. The bag 64 is inflated (Fig. 12) moving fins 36 outwardly and stretching the band 32 into contact with bead rings 45 to effect a seal therebetween. The bag is deflated, fins 36 remaining in their radially outward position. Latching arms 130 (Fig. 4, details Figs. 8 ... 10, not shown) engage the inner ends of rods 70a, 70b to retain them in their axially outward positions, so that as the bag 64 and plate 114 are withdrawn, rods 70 with their bead ring holders remain behind and as the rider pins 119 are drawn along the curved ends of grooves 122a, 122b the rods 70a, 70b are rotated to open the holders (Fig. 6) and release the bead rings 45. Further withdrawal causes plate 114 to contact knobs 141 on rods 138 which releases the latches, and rods 70 are then pushed into tube 68 to restore the apparatus to the Fig. 2 position. Finally, as plate 114 approaches cylinder head plate 52 (Fig. 2 and Figs. 13 ... 15, not shown) plates 144 engage the knobs 142 of rider pins 119 lifting the pins from the grooves and allowing rods 70a, 70b to rotate and restore the bead ring holders to the closed position (Fig. 5, not shown). Instead of the bag and bead ring holders moving to the cylindrical band, the band could be moved between bag and holders. Specifications 854,256, 982,032 and 982,033 are referred to.