Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
  • B29D—PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE
  • B29D30/00—Producing pneumatic or solid tyres or parts thereof
  • B29D30/06—Pneumatic tyres or parts thereof (e.g. produced by casting, moulding, compression moulding, injection moulding, centrifugal casting)
  • B29D30/08—Building tyres
  • B29D30/20—Building tyres by the flat-tyre method, i.e. building on cylindrical drums
  • B29D30/24—Drums
  • B29D30/244—Drums for manufacturing substantially cylindrical tyre components with cores or beads, e.g. carcasses
  • B29D30/246—Drums for the multiple stage building process, i.e. the building-up of the cylindrical carcass is realised on one drum and the toroidal expansion is realised after transferring on another drum
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
  • B29D—PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE
  • B29D30/00—Producing pneumatic or solid tyres or parts thereof
  • B29D30/06—Pneumatic tyres or parts thereof (e.g. produced by casting, moulding, compression moulding, injection moulding, centrifugal casting)
  • B29D30/08—Building tyres
  • B29D30/20—Building tyres by the flat-tyre method, i.e. building on cylindrical drums
  • B29D30/24—Drums
  • B29D30/26—Accessories or details, e.g. membranes, transfer rings
  • B29D2030/2657—Radially expandable and contractable drum comprising a set of circumferentially arranged rigid elements, e.g. fingers or arms

Definitions

• the invention relates to a drum for shaping tire carcasses.
• the shaping of the carcass is a step in the manufacture of a tire which consists in bringing the recesses for receiving the beads of the tire onto the drum and bringing about the radial expansion of all or part of the carcass deposited on this drum.
• the invention relates more particularly to a conformation drum known as “without membrane”, the membranes generally serving as a sealed receiving surface for tire carcasses, inside these membranes a fluid making it possible to inflate them in order to conform said carcasses.
• drums of this category solve this problem by achieving a reduced bulk of the plates and their expansion mechanisms in the retracted position of the drums, such as that described in the publication FR-830 916 which has plates constituting the receiving surface. of the drum, actuated respectively by a gear mechanism.
• This gear mechanism comprises for each plate two pinions cooperating with each other and each carried by the end of an arm comprising three parts with distinct radii of curvature, the other end of the arm being axially movable on the body of the drum.
• Such a drum due to the complexity of the gear mechanism, cannot make it possible to accept tires having different sites even within a small range.
• the invention aims to overcome all of these drawbacks.
• axial, radial, circumferential direction will mean the directions parallel to the axial, radial and circumferential directions relative to the drum.
• the tire carcass shaping drum mounted on a barrel, comprises two bead gripping systems for a carcass to be conform mounted on said barrel and a surface for receiving said carcass constituted by all of the outer surfaces of plates mounted on the barrel and arranged circumferentially around the barrel, in which the plates are radially movable by means of mechanical expansion between a retracted position and an expanded position of the drum, guide means by which each plate s '' presses on an adjacent plate, allowing the positioning of each plate at a constant radial level in the expanded position of the drum and authorizing a tilting relative to a plane perpendicular to the surface of the plates so that they overlap each other others in the retracted position of the drum.
• FIGS. 1A and 1B are schematic representations in axial half-sections of the drum according to the invention respectively in the retracted position of the drum and in the expanded position of the drum,
• FIG. 2 is a partial perspective representation of the drum according to the invention in its expanded position in the direction of the arrow F shown in FIG. 1B
• FIG. 3 is an enlargement of a few plates shown in FIG. 2
• FIG. 4 is a representation in partial section of a few plates shown in FIG. 1B along the line IV-IV of this figure,
• FIG. 5 is a perspective representation of a plate shown in Figure 2.
• the drum 1 comprises a barrel 5 in which is mounted a rotary central screw 6, one end 51 of the barrel 5 allowing the mounting of the drum on an assembly machine.
• the drum 1 also includes a surface for receiving the tire carcass to be conformed, which will be detailed later in the description.
• a tire carcass 2 with two beads 3 and 4 is also very schematically represented positioned above the drum 1 before being taken up by the latter in FIG. 1A and after conformation in FIG. 1B.
• the barrel 5 carries two bead gripping systems 7 and 8 whose relative axial movement is controlled by the central screw 5.
• the central screw 6 has threaded zones with two inverted steps 9 and 10 which actuate the bead gripping systems 7 and 8 by means of fingers 13 and 14 each driving a support 15 (16) forming part of each gripping system of bead.
• Each of these bead grip systems 7 (8) effectively comprises, in addition to the support 15 (16), a plurality of rigid segments 17 (18) distributed regularly around the barrel 5 and extending substantially in the axial direction and a membrane.
• elastic 20 which envelops the segments, each membrane being fixed by its two ends to the support 15 (16).
• Each rigid segment 17 (18) comprises a housing 170 (180) for receiving a bead 3 (4) of the carcass (2) at its end disposed axially towards the inside of the drum 1.
• a circumferential spring 22 (23) is arranged in a groove at the rear of the housing 170 (180) of all the segments under the membrane 20 (21), so as to block the rear of the bead and to cause the segments 17 (18) to return to the retracted position and therefore the drum.
• the presence of the membrane facilitates rotation of the beads of the carcass during shaping.
• the segments 17 (18) can tilt radially by their ends arranged axially towards the outside of the drum 1 around articulations 171 (181) in order to come into contact with the beads of the carcass and to take hold of them.
• a slide 24 (25) is mounted axially movable relative to the segments 17 (18) and to the support 15 (16).
• the slide 24 (25) has a face forming an inclined cam 241 (251) relative to the axis of the drum, defining a conical surface so as to constitute a ramp cooperating with rollers 172 (182) carried by one face of the segments 17 (18) oriented internally with respect to the center of the drum 1.
• the movement of the slide 24 (25) is pneumatically controlled by the supply channel 26 (27) visible in FIGS. 1A and IB, the return to position being ensured by spring 22 (23).
• the receiving surface 30 of the carcass is constituted by all of the outer surfaces 310 of plates 31 mounted and arranged circumferentially around the barrel 5. These plates 31 are radially displaceable by means of mechanical expansion means 33, 34, 36.
• each plate 31 is fixed to a yoke 32 on which the respective ends 331 and 341 of two arms 33 and 34 are articulated, the other two ends 332 and 342 of which are mounted on a crown 35 mounted axially movable on the barrel 5.
• On one of the arms 33 is articulated at the end 361 of a counter arm 36, the other end 362 of which is articulated on a crown 37 fixed to the barrel 5.
• the actuation in axial displacement of the crown 35 therefore makes it possible to tilt the arms 33 and 34 thanks to the blocking generated by the counter arm 36 and thus to change the radial position of the plates 31, the center of each plate 31 moving in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the drum.
• This axial movement is controlled by a jack 40 mounted on the barrel 5 and whose piston 401 carries an axial extension on which the movable ring 35 is fixed so as to be integral with the piston.
• a stop wall 402 of the piston 401 whose axial position is adjustable defines the maximum stroke of the crown 35 towards the crown 37 which corresponds to the expanded position of the drum 1.
• the plates 31 have an outer surface 310 machined in a parallelepiped volume, the profile of which is chosen so as to be identical to the profile for placing the products on the carcass, it is in particular possible to provide shoulders. Whatever this profile, the greatest length of each plate extends in the axial direction. As shown more specifically in FIG. 2, all of the plates 31 are covered with an elastic sleeve 41 which ensures continuity between the plates in the expanded position of the drum 1 and contributes to guaranteeing the positioning of the plates with respect to each other. screw of others as will be explained in more detail below, in this expanded position of the drum 1.
• the drum 1 has means for guiding (32, 43, 312) the plates 31 in their radial "rise” towards the outside of the drum and in their radial “descent” towards the center of the drum.
• the drum and more particularly of the plates and their movement mechanism that the latter which are superimposed in the retracted position of the drum, do so in an orderly and controlled manner in order to avoid impacts between them liable to cause premature wear and significant defects in the surface of the plates and also in order to prevent friction between these plates which, by creating new stresses, can damage the mechanical expansion system (synchronization plate-arm-crown) and likely to modify the profile of the plates.
• the arms 33 and 34 are mounted on each plate 31 by means of the yoke 32 on which the ends 331 and 341 are articulated and which is itself fixed by means of a second integral yoke 42 of each plate 31.
• the second yoke 42 is articulated relative to the first yoke 32, the hinge axis being parallel to the screw 6 of the drum so that the plate can pivot relative to the arms 33 and 34.
• Each yoke 32 associated with a plate 31 carries a device for guiding the adjacent plate. To this end, each yoke 32 is mounted near one of the lateral edges of each plate 31 parallel to the axis of the drum 1 so that each yoke 32 is arranged near the adjacent plate.
• Each screed 32 carries a guide roller 43 which is arranged circumferentially outside the plate 31 associated with said yoke, as can be seen in FIGS. 3 and 4.
• Each plate 31 carries on its inner surface 311 relative to the center of the drum a cam 312 intended to cooperate with the roller 43 carried by the yoke fixed on the plate adjacent to this plate 31.
• the cam opens respectively at the two opposite ends of the plate on a housing, respectively 313 and 314, for receiving the roller of the adjacent plate in order to optimize the two stop positions corresponding to the retracted position and to the expanded position of the drum 1.
• the retracted position of the drum 1 corresponds to the radial position of the plates 31 closest to the center of the drum and superimposed with respect to each other and the expanded position of the drum corresponds to the radial position of the plates where their outer surfaces 310 of the plates 31 form a cylindrical surface and are radially distant from the center of the drum.
• each plate 31 carries contact screws 44 disposed axially on either side of the roller 43 while being substantially aligned circumferentially with said roller in order to create additional supports between the plates in the only limit position corresponding to the expanded position. of the drum.
• FIG. 5 also shows on the inner surface 311 of a plate 31 through holes 315 for the fixing screw of the yoke 42.
• the actuator 40 is actuated with the displacement of the piston towards the outside of the drum, thus causing the axial displacement of the crown 35 away from the fixed crown 37
• the arms 33 and 34 actuating the plates 31, then tilt thanks to the blocking generated by the counter arm 36 causing the radial displacement of said plates towards the center of the drum.
• the plates 31A and 31B are driven by their respective arms 33A, 34A and 33B, 34B radially towards the center of the drum, the roller 43B then following the cam 312A which causes the plate 31B to slide under the plate 31A with a minimum clearance between the inner surface 311A and the outer surface 310B.
• This drum therefore makes it possible to produce both tires of very large diameter even if they have a circumferential width which is small in proportion and of tires of very large diameter and very large since it is possible to have a drum which has a reception surface of small diameter in the retracted position and very large diameter in the expanded position while guaranteeing a solidity of the reception surface making it possible to accept significant efforts in laying products. It is thus possible to accept tires intended to be mounted both on rims of diameter 13 inches and of diameter 22 inches, and go as far as an expansion of the diameter of the carcass of the tire of the order of 200%.

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