摘要 |
<p>A tire molding drum and a tire molding method capable of accurately assembling tire component members, the tire molding drum comprising at least one core body having a plurality sheets of rigid support members disposed in an annular shape on the axial inside of a pair of bead lock means and displaceably expanded and contracted; the method comprising the steps of, by using the tire molding drum, locking bead cores by the bead lock means, swelling the center part of a carcass band while displacing the bead lock means close to each other, folding up the side part of the carcass band to the radial outer side around the bead cores, increasing the diameters of the core bodies to the maximum diameters with the bead cores locked, and assembling the tire component members on the diametrally increased core bodies.</p> |