Patent ID: 8641950

Claim:
A manufacturing method of pieces in a tire mold for molding a pneumatic tire provided with a tread pattern that includes pitches with different pitch lengths in the tire circumferential direction of each of the pitches when the minimum repetition pattern unit of a block row repeated in the tire circumferential direction is defined to be one pitch, said tire mold for molding consisting of a plurality of segments divided in the tire circumferential direction and said segments being provided with a plurality of manufactured said pieces, wherein each of said pieces is manufactured by cutting both end surfaces in the tire circumferential direction from one of the pieces before cutting and said pieces before cutting have cutting regions in both ends in the tire circumferential direction, in said cutting regions, the cross-sectional shapes of said pieces before cutting in the tire width direction are the same, and in the process of manufacturing each of said pieces by cutting one of said pieces before cutting in order to arrange the length of each of said manufactured pieces in the tire circumferential direction to a predetermined length, pairs of cutting lines of each of said pieces before cutting are set at not less than two different positions in the tire circumferential direction so that the length of each of manufactured said pieces in the tire circumferential direction is equal and that both ends of each of manufactured said pieces in the tire circumferential direction are included in said cutting regions, and each of manufactured said pieces is cut from one of said pairs of cutting lines already set, with at least some of manufactured said pieces being prepared by cutting respective first pairs of cutting lines of some of said pieces before cutting and at least others of manufactured said pieces being prepared by cutting respective second pairs of cutting lines of others of said pieces before cutting.