Wheelwright machines – Grooving – slitting and/or lacerating of rubber tires
Patent
1984-03-14
1986-09-02
Smith, James G.
Wheelwright machines
Grooving, slitting and/or lacerating of rubber tires
51DIG33, B29H 2108
Patent
active
046090266
ABSTRACT:
An automatic sipe forming machine for forming sipes on a tread face of a tire, including a tire supporting apparatus and a sipe forming apparatus. The tire supporting apparatus further includes a tire bearing mechanism and an intermittent rotary mechanism for intermittently rotating the tire. The sipe forming apparatus further includes at least one disc cutter, a sliding beam, a cutter holder, a carriage for reciprocatingly guiding the cutter holder, and a guide member for reciprocatingly guiding the carriage. The sipe forming apparatus can further include an angle changing mechanism for changing a sipe forming angle of the disc cutter.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3384146 (1968-05-01), Sommer
patent: 3910337 (1975-10-01), Pelletier
patent: 4080230 (1978-03-01), Batchelor et al.
Smith James G.
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.
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