Patent ID: 8821782

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a tire, including: a first step of when, among a loading station, a vulcanization station, and a cooling station, each of which is disposed from a rear toward a front so as to be spaced to each other, a lower mold is located at the loading station and an inflator body of a post cure inflator having a lower rim is located at the vulcanization station, placing a loaded green tire on the lower mold, lowering an upper mold holding a vulcanized tire disposed at the vulcanization station, transferring said vulcanized tire to the lower rim of the inflator body, and then, moving upward the empty upper mold; a second step of integrally moving forward the lower mold having the green tire placed thereon and the inflator body supporting the vulcanized tire by means of transporting means until the lower mold reaches the vulcanization station and the inflator body reaches the cooling station; a third step of lowering the upper mold to vulcanize the green tire in cooperation with the lower mold located at the vulcanization station to obtain the vulcanized tire, moving upward the upper mold holding said vulcanized tire, lowering the upper rim of the post cure inflator provided at the cooling station to support the vulcanized tire in cooperation with the inflator body, cooling the vulcanized tire with the upper rim and the inflator body, and moving upward said upper rim; and a fourth step of integrally moving rearward the empty lower mold and the empty inflator body by means of the transporting means until the lower mold reaches the loading station and the inflator body reaches the vulcanization station.