Patent ID: 8156986

Claim:
An apparatus for fabricating a carcass member for a tire characterized by comprising: a portion for supplying one piece of a cord; a rubber coating die for coating rubber on the cord while passing the cord continuously drawn from the supply portion to shape a sectional outer shape in an elliptical shape; an aligning guide having a guide hole for passing a rubber coated cord passing through the rubber coating die, a shape of a mouth portion of at least an end portion of a delivery side of the guide hole constituting an elliptical shape in correspondence with the sectional outer shape of the rubber coated cord, and being provided pivotably centered on the guide hole to allow the aligning guide and the guide hole to rotate around a longitudinal axis of the guide hole, and capable of moving in a direction that intersects with a direction of feeding the rubber coated cord; an aligning drum which is a drum wound with the rubber coated cord passing through the aligning guide, made to be rotatable and centered on an axis center in parallel with the direction of moving the aligning guide and having a circumferential length in correspondence with a width of the carcass member constituting an object of fabrication; and a cutting apparatus for cutting a cylinder-like member formed by the rubber coated cord wound around the aligning drum in the direction in parallel with the drum axis center; wherein the aligning guide is constituted such that by controlling to rotate the aligning guide in accordance with moving the aligning guide, the rubber coated cord is made to be able to align to wind to bond to the aligning drum without producing a gap while adjusting a position of the rubber coated cord passing through the aligning guide and a direction of the elliptical shape in a rotation angle thereof around a longitudinal axis of the rubber coated cord on the aligning drum.