| 摘要 |
Apparatus for rapidly and uniformly cooling tires under post inflation by means of jets of preferably ambient curing room air is disclosed as comprising a cooling chamber with a peripheral boundary wall adapted axially to surround the tread of a tire on a post inflation chuck, the peripheral boundary wall of the cooling chamber being provided with orifices distributed circumferentially of the chamber and the tire tread so as to provide a specified pattern of air jets. The air handling system is such that the jets of air are directed in the first instance against the tread surface of the tire, preferably in the shoulder regions thereof, so as to achieve a prescribed and controlled rate of heat transfer from the tire to the air. Normally, two cooling chambers are provided for each dual press unit, and such chambers are incorporated in a box structure and may be brought into surrounding relation to the respective post inflation chucks by appropriate relative movement between the latter and the box structure. This abstract is not to be taken either as a complete exposition or as a limitation of the present invention, however, the full nature and extent of the invention being discernible only by reference to and from the entire disclosure.
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