APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY FEEDING BEAD AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY FEEDING BEAD IN MOLDING OF TIRE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method for automatically feeding beads which can be installed in a small occupied space and can feed an ordinary rubbery bead with a filler to a tire molding line under a condition where the beads are laminated so as to make the direction of inclination of the filler of the bead constant. SOLUTION: The beads b each with the filler and being made into a set with a spacer s by means of a bead stocker 32 are laminated and stored under a condition where the direction of inclination of the filler of the bead is constant and they are forwarded and transferred by a constant pitch P1 to a specified position S1. The bead sets bs transferred to the specified position S1 under a laminated condition are delivered to a delivering mechanism 33 successively from one set bs1 part of the lowermost end by means of a transfer mechanism 34 while the direction of inclination of the fillers of the beads is kept constant or the direction of inclination is converted through a reversing mechanism 35. The beads b are delivered to a bead setter 37 by means of the delivering mechanism 33. Spacers s which have become unnecessary are stored in a spacer stocker 36.