Patent ID: 7361244

Claim:
A method of building a tire in which a green case composed mainly of a cylindrical carcass band, annular bead cores and bead fillers is arranged on an outer peripheral side of a tire building drum, and a central portion of the green case is expansion-deformed in a radial direction while approaching both the bead cores to each other under a restraint of the bead cores by the tire building drum, and then the green case is pressed onto an inner peripheral face of a belt-tread band composed mainly of a belt and a tread, and thereafter each end portion of the carcass band is turned around the bead core, wherein the carcass band is pushed onto rigid support members comprising two differently shaped kinds of rigid support members alternately arranged in a peripheral direction without space in at least diameter-expanded posture, arranged inward in an axial direction of the carcass band over a whole of an arranging region of the bead core and the bead filler together therewith in the turning of the carcass band.