US Patent 7744359 Tire vulcanizing apparatus

A tire vulcanizing apparatus 1 has a carrying-in position P1 into which a green tire TA is carried in from an original position P0, a vulcanizing position P2 at which the green tire TA is vulcanized, and a pressure cooling position P3 at which the vulcanized tire TA is pressure-cooled. The apparatus includes a traveling carriage 6 capable of reciprocating backward and forward, a vulcanization mold 4 having an upper mold 2 capable of moving up and down at the vulcanizing position P2 and a lower mold 3 disposed on the traveling carriage 6 and moving between the vulcanizing position P2 and the carrying-in position P1, a pressure cooling device 7 for pressure-cooling a vulcanized tire TB at the pressure cooling position P3, a tire receiving and mounting device 8 which is attached to the traveling carriage 6 and which receives at the vulcanizing position P2 the vulcanized tire TB from the upper mold 2 and mounts it on the pressure cooling device 7 at the pressure cooling position P3, and a green tire transfer device 9 for gripping and transferring the green tire TA to the lower mold 3 at the carrying-in position P1.