Patent ID: 6991760

Claim:
A method for vulcanizing a tire, comprising: transferring and loading an unvulcanized tire onto a lower mold member when a plurality of arcuate sector mold members aligned along the peripheral direction locate at the radially outermost positions as well as upper ends of the sector mold members incline radially outwards about their lower ends; moving an upper mold member toward a lower mold member while swinging the sector mold members about their lower ends to straightly stand the sector mold members, and then synchronously displacing the sector mold members radially inwards, so that the unvulcanized tire is hermetically enclosed in a mold space formed by the lower mold member, the upper mold member and the sector mold members; vulcanizing the unvulcanized tire with the upper mold member, the lower mold member, and the sector mold members to give a vulcanized tire; synchronously displacing the sector mold members radially outwards, and then swinging the sector mold members such that the upper ends incline radially outwards about the lower ends while moving the upper mold member away from the lower mold member; and carrying the vulcanized tire out of the mold.