Tire mold transporter

摘要

A tire transporter which shuttles between a vulcanizing station 1 in which plural pairs of tire molds are arranged to perform vulcanization and a mold opening/closing station 2 in which the tire mold is opened and the vulcanized tire is taken out from the tire mold, and subsequently an unvulcanized tire to be vulcanized is inserted into the tire mold and shaped before the tire mold is close, characterized by the provision of: a first railway 4 disposed along the vulcanizing station 1 and the mold opening/closing station 2; a truck with a drive unit which moves along the first railway between a first position P1 set in the mold opening/closing station 2 and second positions P2 set at a plurality of portions in front of the vulcanizing station 1; a second railway 12 disposed on the truck along a direction orthogonal to the first railway 4; a plurality of third railway 13 disposed on the third positions P3, which are set at a plurality of portions in the vulcanizing station 1, along a direction orthogonal to the first railway 4; and a mold transfer unit 32 which moves along those second and third railways 12 and 13 when one of the third railways 13 and the second railway 12 on the truck 19 are connected to each other.