Turn-up device for tyre side walls

• US 10,457,006 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2013
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harburg Freudenberger Maschinenbau GmbH
• Original Assignee: Harburg-Freudenburger Maschinenbau GMBH (L. Possehl & Co. mit beschränkter Haftung)
• Inventors: Jobs, Christopher, Wilkens, Susanne, Wedekind, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): Del Sole, Joseph S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Williams, Cedrick S
• Application Number:
  US14/439,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20150239191A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,329 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/3264 using radially expandable, contractible mechanical means, e.g. circumferentially spaced arms, spring rollers, cages
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/24 Drums
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/244 for manufacturing substantially cylindrical tyre components with cores or beads, e.g. carcasses mechanisms for folding layers around cores or blads per se B29D30/32
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/245 Drums for the single stage building process, i.e. the building-up of the cylindrical carcass and the toroidal expansion of it are realised on the same drum expansion to a toroidal shape B29D30/36
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/26 Accessories or details, e.g. membranes, transfer rings
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/32 Fitting the bead-rings or bead-cores; Folding the textile layers around the rings or cores

Abstract

A device is disclosed for turning up the side walls of tyres on a shaping drum for shaping a tyre carcase, the spindle arrangement of which has a central spindle and at least two side spindles running in parallel, between which the central spindle extends, wherein the central spindle and the side spindles are drivable in a mutually independent manner and the core clamping devices are allocated to the central spindle and the turn-over devices are allocated to the side spindles or the turn-over devices are allocated to the central spindle and the core clamping devices are allocated to the side spindles.

Claims

1. An apparatus for turning up tire side walls on a shaping drum for shaping a tire carcass, comprising:

two core clamping devices;

two turn-over devices; and

a spindle arrangement for synchronous movement of the core clamping devices axially in opposite directions and for synchronous movement of the turn-over devices axially in opposite directions independently of the core clamping devices, wherein the spindle arrangement has a central spindle and two synchronously running side spindles between which the central spindle extends, wherein the core clamping devices are in transmission connection with the central spindle and the turn-over devices are in transmission connection with the side spindles, or the turn-over devices are in transmission connection with the central spindle and the core clamping devices are in transmission connection with the side spindles, wherein two first spindle nuts are guided on the central spindle, each of the first spindle nuts has at least two first drivers that respectively transmit a driving, force from the spindle nut to one of the devices associated with the central spindle, wherein the drivers are distributed uniformly in a circumferential direction of the drum, wherein the central spindle has two opposing threaded sections, one of the first spindle nuts being arranged on each of the threaded sections, wherein each of the side spindles has two opposing threaded sections, wherein a second spindle nut having a second driver is respectively arranged on each of the threaded sections of the side spindles.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein two side spindle nuts are guided on each of the side spindles and form two parallel running side spindle nut pairs, each of the side spindle nuts has at least one driver that transmits a driving force from the side spindle nut to one of the devices associated with the side spindles, wherein each device associated with the side spindles is assigned one of the side spindle nut pairs, wherein the drivers of each side spindle nut pair are distributed uniformly in a circumferential direction of the drum.

3. The apparatus claimed in claim 1, wherein the central spindle is mounted centrally between the side spindles on a drum axis.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the side spindles are operatively connected to one another by a coupling.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the core clamping devices are mounted on a drum housing which extends around the spindle arrangement and which has slots through which the drivers are guided.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein each turn-over device is mounted on a section of a sliding bushing which engages around the drum housing and which connects the respective core clamping device to the drivers thereof and which has slots for leadthrough of the drivers associated with the side spindles.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the sliding bushing is sealed off by a seal.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the side spindle nuts of a pair are connected to one another.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the at least two drivers of the spindle nuts on the central spindle are oriented orthogonally to the two drivers of the side spindle nuts.