Patent ID: 7901608

Claim:
A tire vulcanizing method comprising the steps of: loading a green tire into a segmented tread mold having been opened radially outward; performing a vulcanization processing with the segmented tread mold closed radially inward and with a bladder expanded inside the green tire having been loaded; and upon completion of the vulcanization processing, removing the vulcanized tire by opening the segmented tread mold radially outward; wherein the bladder is expandable and contractible at a vulcanization position within the segmented tread mold as well as at a tire delivery position which is outside the segmented tread mold to be a predetermined distance away from the vulcanization position along the axis of the segmented tread mold; and wherein the method includes the steps of: expanding the bladder at the delivery position to make the bladder hold the green tire loaded into the tire delivery position; making the bladder load the green tire into the segmented tread mold at the vulcanization position; after the vulcanization processing, making the bladder in the expanded state remove the vulcanized tire from the vulcanization position to the delivery position; and contracting the bladder at the delivery position for releasing the vulcanized tire from the bladder.