Patent ID: 7353852

Claim:
A carcass ply producing apparatus for producing a carcass ply constituting a carcass layer of a tire, comprising: a supply head for supplying one or a plurality of ply cords; a head driving mechanism for reciprocating said supply head along a widthwise direction of said carcass ply; a sticking body having a sticking surface to which said ply cord supplied by said supply head is stuck; a sticking body driving mechanism for moving back and forth said sticking surface of said sticking body along a longitudinal direction of said carcass ply; and a moving amount controlling mechanism for controlling back-and-forth motion of said sticking surface with respect to said supply head, wherein the sticking surface moves back and forth in the longitudinal direction of the carcass ply with respect to the supply head while the supply head is reciprocating once along the widthwise direction of the carcass ply.