Patent ID: 7435068

Claim:
A system for producing pneumatic tires including at least one production line that comprises: a green tire building station configured to alternately build two types of green tires by assembling a predetermined number of unvulcanized members of pneumatic tires into green tires, the green tire building station including at least one set of building drums; a vulcanization station that vulcanizes the green tires, the vulcanization station including at least one vulcanizing unit equipped with a plurality of vulcanizing molds that are configurable to accommodate one of the two types of green tires, tire; a mold storage that stores the plurality of vulcanizing molds; a preheating chamber that preheats vulcanizing molds immediately before they are mounted onto the vulcanizing unit; an exchanger that exchanges vulcanizing molds by mounting or removing them onto or from the vulcanizing unit; and a conveyor that conveys vulcanizing molds along a path that extends between the mold storage and the exchanger through the preheating chamber.