| 摘要 |
<p>A tire sorting apparatus for reliably reading information from a tire identifier, such as a barcode, formed on the surface of a tire without damaging the tire. Placed under a tire T mounting table (40) is a tire grip means (20) which has three grip arms (24a to 24c) arranged circularly in a plane perpendicular to the tire center axis and link mechanisms for spreading the grip arms (24a to 24c). Placed above the mounting table (40) is a barcode reader rotating means (33) for rotating a barcode reader (31) held by a barcode reader holding means (32). The rotation axis of the barcode reader (31) is aligned with the center of the circle formed by the grip arms (24a to 24c) of the tire grip means (20).</p> |
