Tire manufacturing process

摘要

A tire manufacturing process of the type which employs a reusable rubber or the like curing bag or bladder. The process includes deflating, between curing cycles of the tire manufacturing process, the curing bag or bladder; preventing oxygen bearing medium entering the curing bag or bladder; and supplying a non-reactive medium upstream of the curing bag or bladder to maintain the bag or bladder in its unstretched state until the bag or bladder is next inflated.