IMPROVED ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FOR POSITIONING TIRE BEADS ONTO A TIRE CORE SIDE WALL

摘要

A combination of a plurality of equally spaced permanent magnets that are each fitted into a magnet cup formed into a cavity mold side outer surface. The outer surface is immediately opposite to a slot formed around an outer edge of the inner surface of the cavity mold side, leaving a thin section of the cavity mold side material that separates the respective bottoms of the magnet cups from the bottom of the slot. The slot receives a tire bead in which a tire plies is folded and is held in that slot by the attractive force provided by the permanent magnets, and pins are fitted at spaced intervals into, to extend outwardly from, the slot bottom surface to engage and center the tire bead in the slot.