Method and apparatus for the lamination of band-shaped uncured rubber materials

• US 20060096696A1
• Filed: 12/27/2005
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Inventors: Ogawa, Yuichiro, Oku, Masaharu, Hatakeyama, Kazuya
• Application Number:
  US11/316,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20060096696A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 156/117
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/07 Flat, e.g. panels
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/18 the components being layers
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/2886 of fibrous, filamentary or filling materials, e.g. thin fibrous reinforcements or fillers
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/297 at several locations, e.g. using several hoppers or using a separate additive feeding
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 53/581 using sheets or strips consisting principally of plastics material using profiled sheets or strips B29C53/78
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/60 by winding narrow strips
• CPC Class Codes: B29K 2021/00 Use of unspecified rubbers as moulding material
• CPC Class Codes: B29K 2105/246 Uncured, e.g. green
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 1/0008 Compositions of the inner liner

Abstract

In the lamination of band-shaped uncured rubber materials to form a laminated rubber member having a given sectional shape by helically winding a band-shaped uncured rubber material extruded through an extruder on a rotating support, two or more rubber compositions indicating different moduli after the curing are used as a rubber material fed to the extruder, and a first rubber material is extruded through the extruder and helically wound on the support to form a first rubber layer, and the first rubber material and a second rubber material are continuously and simultaneously through the extruder so as to stepwise or gradually increase a blending ratio of the second rubber material to the first rubber material while holding the same extrusion sectional shape and helically wound on the first rubber layer while overlapping with at least a part of the first rubber layer to form a second rubber layer.

Claims

1. A method of laminating band-shaped uncured rubber materials to form a laminated rubber member having a given sectional shape by helically winding a band-shaped uncured rubber material extruded through an extruder on a rotating support, which comprises using two or more rubber compositions indicating different moduli after the curing as a rubber material fed to the extruder;

extruding a first rubber material through the extruder and helically winding it on the rotating support to form a first rubber layer; and

continuously extruding the first rubber material and a second rubber material through the extruder so as to stepwise or gradually increase a blending ratio of the second rubber material to the first rubber material while holding the same extrusion sectional shape and helically winding on the first rubber layer while overlapping with at least a part of the first rubber layer to form a second rubber layer, wherein

two or more rubber materials have such a property that at least one of 100% modulus and 300% modulus after the curing differs by not less than 1.0 MPa between the two rubber materials to be extruded, and

among three rubber materials, the first rubber material is a rubber composition for a bead filler in the cured tire, the second rubber material is a rubber composition for a sidewall and a third rubber material is a rubber composition for a rubber chafer.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein only the second rubber material is successively extruded through the extruder while holding the same extrusion sectional shape and helically wound on the second rubber layer so as to overlap with at least a part of the second rubber layer to form a third rubber layer.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the second rubber material and the third rubber material are successively extruded through the extruder so as to stepwise or gradually increase a blending ratio of the third rubber material to the second rubber material while holding the same extrusion sectional shape and helically wound on the third rubber layer while overlapping with at least a part of the third rubber layer to form a fourth rubber layer.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein only the third rubber material is successively extruded through the extruder while holding the same extrusion sectional shape and helically wound on the fourth rubber layer so as to overlap with at least a part of the fourth rubber layer to form a fifth rubber layer.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the rubber material extruded through the extruder as a band-shaped rubber member is helically wound on the rotating support along a rotating axial direction of the support so as to overlap at least widthwise edge portions of the wound rubber member with each other.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein when two rubber materials are used as a rubber composition for innerliner for the cured tire, the first rubber material is at least one of an air-impermeable halogenated butyl rubber composition and butyl rubber composition, and the second rubber material is at least one of a natural rubber composition and a natural rubber based synthetic rubber composition.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein the second rubber material extruded through the extruder and forming the third rubber layer is helically wound on the rotating support along a rotating axial direction of the support so as to overlap at least widthwise edge portions of the wound rubber members with each other.

8. The method according to claim 3, wherein the second rubber material and the third rubber material extruded through the extruder and forming the fourth rubber layer is helically wound on the rotating support along a rotating axial direction of the support so as to overlap at least widthwise edge portions of the wound rubber members with each other.

9. The method according to claim 4, wherein the third rubber material extruded through the extruder and forming the fifth rubber layer is helically wound on the rotating support along a rotating axial direction of the support so as to overlap at least widthwise edge portions of the wound rubber members with each other.