.~.~ Centerless core or off-center support of annular tire structure
DEFINITION
Classification: 156/407
(under subclass 394.1) Apparatus for supporting a tire or tire building drum for rotation in which the rotating means either has a center of rotation which is eccentric to the center of rotation of the tire or drives the tire from its external periphery.
(1) Note. This subclass includes devices in which the tire body is assembled over two or more rotating supports in such a manner that the tire body resembles a belt running over pulleys.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
457, for centerless core rotating apparatus in which the article being formed is not a tire.