Patent ID: 7712504

Claim:
A machine for manufacturing tires (P) using at least one core (N) composed of plural elements capable of being dismantled, and forming in the configuration used for assembly a stable surface of revolution with axis of rotation rr′ and having a continuous form, close to the final manufactured form of the tire, the core being used as a reference surface of the manufacture of the tires (P) by moving consecutively from one manufacturing station to another from the start of assembly through to vulcanisation, wherein the machine comprises: a first line of stations, oriented in a horizontal direction XX′, in which the stations are capable of receiving a core (N) whose axis of rotation rr′ is oriented horizontally; a second line of stations, oriented in a horizontal direction YY′, perpendicular to the direction XX′, in which the stations are capable of receiving a core (N) whose axis is oriented vertically, wherein the first line of stations comprises a first ( 120 ) and a second ( 130 ) station for assembling the tire, each comprising means ( 121 , 131 ) of grasping and driving the core (N) in rotation about a horizontal axis rr′, merged with the axis XX′, the means being placed opposite one another so that their grasping means face one another in the direction XX′; and a turning device ( 110 ), movable in the direction XX′, and capable of transferring the core from one station to another within the first line of stations ( 120 , 130 ), by making the axis rr′ of the core effect a translation along the axis XX′ and a rotation of 180° about a horizontal axis yy′ parallel to the direction YY′ so that the core can be grasped by the oppositely facing means of the first and second stations for transfer to the first and second stations.