Patent ID: 7001559

Claim:
A method for producing a pneumatic tire, comprising: supporting both bead portions of a green tire by a pair of holders to which opposite axial ends of a bladder are tightly attached separately from a vulcanizer; joining the pair of holders to each other and supplying a liquid into the bladder to preliminarily inflate the bladder and green tire into a toroidal shape; transferring the preliminarily inflated bladder and green tire into the vulcanizer, together with the holders, after the preliminary inflation; supplying a heat medium into the bladder after transfer to the vulcanizer to thereby vulcanize the green tire and form a vulcanized tire; transferring the vulcanized tire, together with the holders and the bladder, from the vulcanizer to a post-cure inflator; attaching the holders to a rotary shaft of the post-cure inflator; rotating the rotary shaft of the post-cure inflator to thereby cool the vulcanized tire; and accelerating cooling of the vulcanized tire, by supplying a low-temperature liquid into the bladder.