US PATENT SUBCLASS 425 / 28.1
RESHAPING, RESIZING OR VULCANIZING MEANS FOR TIRE, TIRE TUBE, OR DRIVE BELT

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425 /   HD   PLASTIC ARTICLE OR EARTHENWARE SHAPING OR TREATING: APPARATUS

28.1RESHAPING, RESIZING OR VULCANIZING MEANS FOR TIRE, TIRE TUBE, OR DRIVE BELT {9}
29  DF  .~> Control means responsive to condition sensing means
30  DF  .~> Control means responsive to independently operated timer
31  DF  .~> Means shaping drum shaped preform to tire casing shape {1}
34.1  DF  .~> Plural female molds for plural preforms {2}
35  DF  .~> Toroidal or annular female shaping means and coacting means holding preform thereagainst {8}
47  DF  .~> Sectional female mold including locking or clamping assembly means
48  DF  .~> Interior holding means or curing bag inserter, releaser, or remover
49  DF  .~> Internal mold, form or support for toroid {4}
58.1  DF  .~> Post cure inflator

DEFINITION

Classification: 425/28.1

RESHAPING, RESIZING, OR VULCANIZING MEANS FOR TIRE, TIRE TUBE OR DRIVE BELT:

(under the class definition) Apparatus uniquely adapted for manufacturing by means reshaping, resizing, or vulcanizing performs into (a) flexible or resilient doughnut shaped articles which are used on the periphery or rim of a vehicle wheel (generally to absorb shock and/or control traction), or (b) endless flexible bands (e.g.., drive belts, etc..) which are used to transmit power.

(1) Note. Excluded under the definition are devices of general utility, even thought by disclosure they are for use in operating on a portion of a tire tube or belt. For example, a device for holding two ends of a tube in assembled relationship for vulcanizing are not here but provided for below.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

11, for means for the repair of articles which may be toroidal, and which may include toroidal support means.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

152, Resilient Tires and Wheels,

151+, for resilient tires.

156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, 394.1+, for an apparatus or subcombination thereof specifically adapted for assembling elements of a tire body either into the form of an endless article or an article which has a circular or horseshoe cross-section with means causing the associated parts to adhere one to the other; see especially subclasses 414+ for a tire building drum, per se.

157, Wheelwright Machines, appropriate subclasses for means for assembling wheels, especially

13, for means for mechanically treating outer periphery of a rubber tire casing including means for removal of mold flash from a tire or means for the reclamation of materials from a tire which does not destroy the tire.

264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes,

299+, especially subclasses 315+ and 326 for processes of vulcanizing tires and belts.