Patent GB-913596-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tire building machines with expansible tire building drum
IPC: B29D30/32
Filed: 1961-02-06
Abstract: 913,596. Tyre-building machines. TUELLEBORGS GUMMIFABRIKS A.B. Feb. 6, 1961 [Feb. 9, 1960], No.4454/61. Class 144 (1). To facilitate bead core application in a tyrebuilding machine comprising a cylindrical expansible building drum 31 flanked on each side by a ply-end supporting drum 71, 78, which is movable telescopically over the building drum to effect ply turn-over, all three drums are supported cantilever fashion from a frame 11 and the telescoping movement of the supporting drum 71 remote from the frame is effected by a piston-rod 46 which extends through the tubular shaft 14 on which the building drum is mounted. The tyre-building drum 31 comprises peripheral segments 44 carried by webs 43 having frusto-conical, dove-tail section, radially inner surfaces 41 at each end to engage in complementary guides 40 on the outer peripheries of two annular end members 39, 40 which have opposite hand screw-thread engagement with a correspondingly screw-threaded sleeve 19 keyed to the tubular driving shaft 14. The shaft 14, which is journalled in bearings 12 and 13 in the frame 11 and is driven by a motor 18, rotatably supports two sleeves 32, 33 arranged one on each side of the sleeve 19, the sleeves 32, 33 being coupled together by three equispaced tie rods 23 which extend freely through holes in the end members 39, 40 and also through holes in a locking ring 22. The locking ring 22 is releasably clutched to a ring 21, fixed to the centre of sleeve 19, by pneumatically retractable spring-loaded plungers 25 whereby the sleeves 32, 33, the rods 23 and thus the drum segments 44 may be releasably locked to the shaft 14 for rotation therewith. The remote supporting drum 71 comprises a hub 58 rotatably mounted on the free end of the piston-rod 46 and slidably received in the bore of sleeve 33, the sleeve 33 being axially slotted into spaced segments and the hub 58 having spokes 59 radiating therefrom between the sleeve segments to support a ring 60, 61. The ring 60, 61 provides radial guides for lugs 63 of a plurality of segments 68 forming the surface of the drum 71. The lugs 63 are spring- urged radially inwardly of the ring 60, 61 and each pivotally carries a cam-follower 64 which bears on the outer surface of the associated segment of the sleeve 33. The ends of the segments 68 adjacent the building drum are connected by rotatable garter spring sections 70 which normally rest in a shallow circumferential groove in the end of the building drum 31. When the drum 71 is telescoped over the drum 31 by appropriate pressurizing of the cylinder 47 controlling the piston-rod 46, the cam-followers 64 ride up on a ramp 33b on the sleeve 33 to expand the segments 68 so that they do not interfere with the ply stitching and turn-over action of the garter spring 70. The supporting drum 78 is similar to the drum 71 except that its hub 79 is slidably keyed on to the associated sleeve 32, and the ramp 86 is grooved into the sleeve 32. Axial movement of the drum 78 is effected by a piston and cylinder unit 90, 91, the piston-rod 89 of which is attached to a ring 88 within which the hub 79 is journalled. A disc brake assembly 95-100 operates on a flange 94 secured to the sleeve 32, whereby all three drums may be held stationary when the rings 21, 22 are declutched and the shaft 14 rotated to effect through the screw-threaded sleeve 19 and members 39, 40, radial expansion or retraction of the building drum segments 44. Retraction of the plungers 25 for declutching of the rings 21, 22 is effected by pressure air ducted through the piston-rod 46 and a flexible pipe 75 to cylinders 27 within which the plungers are slidably housed.