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Inflatable bladder for a tire building drum

US4087307A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 30, 1976
Grant dateMay 2, 1978
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Expiry dateAug 30, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB29D2030/3228
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An inflatable bladder for a tire building drum is adapted for mounting snugly on a cylindrical drum extension which has a circumferential groove accommodating a non-inflatable elastic ring secured integrally to the bladder. The bladder inner wall has a flangeless port between two circumferential sealing ribs integral with the bladder wall. The port is in air-flow communication with a channel in the outer surface of the extension.

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