METHOD OF PRODUCING PNEUMATIC TIRE AND HOUSING HOLDER OF BEAD MEMBER

• US 20200130307A1
• Filed: 09/17/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
• Original Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
• Inventors: Kodama, Norihiko
• Application Number:
  US16/573,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20200130307A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/022 characterised by the choice of material
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/12 Articles with an irregular circumference when viewed in cross-section, e.g. window profiles
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/911 Cooling
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/0044 Handling tyre beads, e.g., storing, transporting, transferring and supplying to the toroidal support or to the drum
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/481 Fillers or apexes
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/0016 Handling tyres or parts thereof, e.g. supplying, storing, conveying B29D30/2607 takes precedence; loading and unloading vulcanizing presses B29D30/0603
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/48 Bead-rings or bead-cores from wire B21F37/00; Treatment thereof prior to building the tyre

Abstract

To suppress occurrence of curl at an edge part of a bead filler at the time of producing a pneumatic tire. A method of producing a pneumatic tire includes the steps of fabricating a bead member by integrating a bead filler formed by extrusion molding with a bead core in a state where a temperature difference between an edge part and a root part of the bead filler is 25° C. or less as well as a temperature at the edge part is 39° C. or more, cooling the bead member by being placed on a support surface supporting a side surface of the bead filler and forming a green tire using the cooled bead member.

Claims

1. A method of producing a pneumatic tire including a bead core embedded in a bead part, and a bead filler arranged on an outer peripheral side of the bead core and having a cross-sectional shape narrowing in width toward an edge, comprising:

fabricating a bead member by integrating the bead filler formed by extrusion molding with the bead core in a state where a temperature difference between an edge part and a root part of the bead filler is 25°

C. or less as well as a temperature at the edge part is 39°

C. or more;

cooling the bead member by being placed on a support surface supporting a side surface of the bead filler; and

forming a green tire using the cooled bead member.

2. The method of producing the pneumatic tire according to claim 1,

wherein a height of the bead filler formed by extrusion molding is 80 mm or more.

3. The method of producing the pneumatic tire according to claim 1,

wherein an angle at the edge part of the bead filler formed by extrusion molding is 16.0 degrees or less.

4. The method of producing the pneumatic tire according to claim 1,

wherein, in the step of cooling the bead member, a housing holder capable of being stacked vertically in a state of housing the bead member is used,

the housing holder includes a disc-shaped placing part having the support surface, convex parts provided on at least one of circumferences on an inner peripheral side or an outer peripheral side of the placing part, and concave parts provided on back surface sides of the convex parts, to which convex parts of a housing holder to be a lower stage are capable of being fitted at the time of stacking the housing holders, wherein a gap capable of housing the bead member is formed between placing parts of housing holders of an upper stage and a lower stage by stacking housing holders so that the convex parts of the housing holder to be the upper stage and the convex parts of the housing holder to be the lower stage are shifted to one another in a circumferential direction, and a gap which is narrower than the gap capable of housing the bead member is formed between placing parts of the housing holders of the upper stage and the lower stage by stacking the housing holders in a state where the convex parts are fitted to the concave parts so that the convex parts of the housing holder to be the upper stage and the convex parts of the housing holder to be the lower stage correspond to one another, and

cooling is performed in a state where the bead member is housed in the gap formed by stacking the housing holders so that the convex parts are shifted to one another in the step of cooling the bead member.

5. The method of producing the pneumatic tire according to claim 2,

wherein, in the step of cooling the bead member, a housing holder capable of being stacked vertically in a state of housing the bead member is used,

the housing holder includes a disc-shaped placing part having the support surface, convex parts provided on at least one of circumferences on an inner peripheral side or an outer peripheral side of the placing part, and concave parts provided on back surface sides of the convex parts, to which convex parts of a housing holder to be a lower stage are capable of being fitted at the time of stacking the housing holders, wherein a gap capable of housing the bead member is formed between placing parts of housing holders of an upper stage and a lower stage by stacking housing holders so that the convex parts of the housing holder to be the upper stage and the convex parts of the housing holder to be the lower stage are shifted to one another in a circumferential direction, and a gap which is narrower than the gap capable of housing the bead member is formed between placing parts of the housing holders of the upper stage and the lower stage by stacking the housing holders in a state where the convex parts are fitted to the concave parts so that the convex parts of the housing holder to be the upper stage and the convex parts of the housing holder to be the lower stage correspond to one another, and

cooling is performed in a state where the bead member is housed in the gap formed by stacking the housing holders so that the convex parts are shifted to one another in the step of cooling the bead member.

6. The method of producing the pneumatic tire according to claim 3,

wherein, in the step of cooling the bead member, a housing holder capable of being stacked vertically in a state of housing the bead member is used,

the housing holder includes a disc-shaped placing part having the support surface, convex parts provided on at least one of circumferences on an inner peripheral side or an outer peripheral side of the placing part, and concave parts provided on back surface sides of the convex parts, to which convex parts of a housing holder to be a lower stage are capable of being fitted at the time of stacking the housing holders, wherein a gap capable of housing the bead member is formed between placing parts of housing holders of an upper stage and a lower stage by stacking housing holders so that the convex parts of the housing holder to be the upper stage and the convex parts of the housing holder to be the lower stage are shifted to one another in a circumferential direction, and a gap which is narrower than the gap capable of housing the bead member is formed between placing parts of the housing holders of the upper stage and the lower stage by stacking the housing holders in a state where the convex parts are fitted to the concave parts so that the convex parts of the housing holder to be the upper stage and the convex parts of the housing holder to be the lower stage correspond to one another, and

cooling is performed in a state where the bead member is housed in the gap formed by stacking the housing holders so that the convex parts are shifted to one another in the step of cooling the bead member.

7. The method of producing the pneumatic tire according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

performing vulcanization molding of the green tire.

8. A housing holder for a bead member capable of being stacked vertically in a state of housing the bead member including a bead core and a bead filler integrated with the bead core on an outer peripheral side, comprising:

a disc-shaped placing part having a support surface capable of supporting a side surface of the bead filler;

convex parts provided on at least one of circumferences on an inner peripheral side or an outer peripheral side of the placing part; and

concave parts provided on back surface sides of the convex parts, to which convex parts of a housing holder to be a lower stage are capable of being fitted at the time of stacking the housing holders,

wherein a gap capable of housing the bead member is formed between placing parts of housing holders of an upper stage and a lower stage by stacking housing holders so that the convex parts of the housing holder to be the upper stage and the convex parts of the housing holder to be the lower stage are shifted to one another in a circumferential direction, and a gap which is narrower than the gap capable of housing the bead member is formed between placing parts of the housing holders of the upper stage and the lower stage by stacking the housing holders in a state where the convex parts are fitted to the concave parts so that the convex parts of the housing holder to be the upper stage and the convex parts of the housing holder to be the lower stage correspond to one another.