Douglas C Weaver

US Patent:

6343638, Feb 5, 2002

Filed:

Feb 23, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/510779

Inventors:

Douglas Raymond Weaver - Uniontown OH
Joseph Anthony Farelli - Berlin Center OH

Assignee:

The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company - Akron OH

International Classification:

B29D 3038

US Classification:

156415, 156414, 1564214

Abstract:

Circumferentially spaced folding modules of a tire building drum have axially movable belt lifting and conveying nose pieces which carry wide breaker ply edges over narrow breaker ply edges laid on the drum.

US Patent:

6746557, Jun 8, 2004

Filed:

Sep 21, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/957740

Inventors:

Jean-Marie Durand - Luxembourg, LU
Douglas Raymond Weaver - Uniontown OH
Francis Cornet - Habay-la-Vieille, BE

Assignee:

The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company - Akron OH

International Classification:

B29D 3032

US Classification:

156111, 156131, 156133, 156396, 156403

Abstract:

A method for mounting beads on a tire carcass which is being laid up on tire building drum, particularly applicable to cases wherein the drum has a free end and an opposite end which is supported by a drum support (or comparable impediment to installing a bead from the opposite end of the drum). The method comprises disposing a first of two beads on the drum in an area which is between a carcass layup area and the drum support. The bead is moved into this position from the free end of the drum, and this is done before the process of laying up the carcass has resulted in there being an impediment to installing the bead from the free end of the drum, such as bumps resulting from tire insert components. This may be prior to any carcass components have been laid up, or after an inner liner has been laid up, or after an inner liner and inserts and a ply have been laid up on a drum having pockets (recesses) to alleviate bump formation. With the bead âparkedâ on the drum, yet out of the way of laying up the carcass, the carcass may be laid up.

US Patent:

6827119, Dec 7, 2004

Filed:

Mar 11, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/095176

Inventors:

Douglas Raymond Weaver - Uniontown OH
William Dudley Currie - Stow OH
Dennis Alan Lundell - Stow OH

Assignee:

The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company - Akron OH

International Classification:

B29D 3024

US Classification:

156415, 156416, 156417

Abstract:

This invention relates to an improved radially expansible tire assembly drum ( ) and a method forming tires ( ) from an assemblage of tire components utilizing the assembly drum ( ).

US Patent:

6827801, Dec 7, 2004

Filed:

Dec 31, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/029722

Inventors:

Douglas Raymond Weaver - Uniontown OH
Joseph Anthony Farelli - Berlin Center OH

Assignee:

The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company - Akron OH

International Classification:

B29D 3038

US Classification:

156123, 156133, 156190, 156216, 156226

Abstract:

The method of folding overlap side edges of a wide breaker ply over side edges of a narrow breaker ply wrapped around the wide breaker ply on circumferentially spaced modules wherein the modules have axially movable belt lifting and conveying nose members to carry the overlap side edges of the wide breaker ply axially over the side edges of the narrow breaker ply and position the wide side edges of the wide breaker ply over the narrow breaker ply side edges. The nose members are then retracted to peel the belt away from the folded overlap side edges of the wide breaker ply.

US Patent:

7126489, Oct 24, 2006

Filed:

Dec 20, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/017484

Inventors:

Gary Edwin Tubb - Copley OH, US
William Allen Rex - Doylestown OH, US
Douglas Raymond Weaver - Uniontown OH, US
Joseph Carmine Lettieri - Stow OH, US

Assignee:

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company - Akron OH

International Classification:

G08B 21/00

US Classification:

3406861, 3406862, 3406863

Abstract:

Guide mechanism and method for axially directing an annular transponder unit segment by segment to an adhesive application station for subsequent attachment of the annular transponder unit segment by segment to an annular tire surface, the transponder unit being of a type having a sensor housing coupled to an annular antenna. The guide mechanism includes opposed fingers proximately positioned adjacent to an adhesive application station. The opposed fingers pivot to capture the annular assembly therebetween and slideably direct the assembly segment by segment to the adhesive application station. The guide mechanism is adjustable to a preferred proximal height from the annular surface of a tire and presents the annular transponder unit to the adhesive application station at a specified diameter and height above the tire surface.

US Patent:

7220330, May 22, 2007

Filed:

Dec 20, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/017528

Inventors:

Gary Edwin Tubb - Copley OH, US
William Allen Rex - Doylestown OH, US
Douglas Raymond Weaver - Uniontown OH, US
Joseph Carmine Lettieri - Stow OH, US

Assignee:

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company - Akron OH

International Classification:

B29C 65/00
B29C 65/48
B60C 19/00

US Classification:

156 60, 156349, 156381, 156408, 1521521

Abstract:

Nozzle apparatus and method for affixing an annular transponder unit to an annular surface of a tire includes a nozzle block having an adhesive conduit extending therein to an inward end; a transverse channel open along an outward side and extending into the block, the channel being dimensioned for close receipt segment by segment of the annular transponder unit therein; and at least one adhesive port opposite the open channel side in fluid communication with the channel and the adhesive conduit inward end. The block channel open side is positioned opposite the annular tire surface and the adhesive port is positioned to direct adhesive material therefrom into the block channel to surround a segment of the annular transponder unit located within the channel.

US Patent:

7289021, Oct 30, 2007

Filed:

Aug 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/917754

Inventors:

Douglas Raymond Weaver - Uniontown OH, US
Joseph Carmine Lettieri - Stow OH, US
Gary Edwin Tubb - Copley OH, US
Dwayne Richard Huston - Fairlawn OH, US
James Michael Hart - Akron OH, US
William Allen Rex - Doylestown OH, US
Robert Allen Birch - Mantua OH, US

Assignee:

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company - Akron OH

International Classification:

B60C 23/00

US Classification:

340442, 340443, 340444, 340445, 340446, 340447, 3405391, 731462

Abstract:

Apparatus and method in the use thereof attaches an annular transponder unit to an annular tire surface, the transponder unit being of a type having a sensor housing coupled to an annular antenna. The apparatus includes a rotary turntable for supportably rotating a tire having an annular tire surface in an accessible disposition and an arm proximately disposed to the turntable and having end-of-arm tooling for attaching the transponder unit section by section to the annular tire surface as the tire is rotated. The tooling includes a gripping mechanism engaging the sensor housing and placing the sensor housing at a preselected location on the annular tire surface and a guide mechanism engaging the annular antenna and positioning the annular antenna section by section along the annular tire surface as the tire is rotated. An adhesive material applicator nozzle is disposed between the guide mechanism and the gripping means for application of the adhesive material between the annular antenna and the annular tire surface as the tire is rotated. A pre-staging station supporting the transponder unit may further be utilized, the arm moving between the pre-staging station and the turntable and the gripping mechanism engaging the sensor housing at the pre-staging station to transport the transponder unit from the pre-staging station to the turntable.

US Patent:

7909080, Mar 22, 2011

Filed:

Sep 4, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/899266

Inventors:

Douglas Raymond Weaver - Uniontown OH, US

Assignee:

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company - Akron OH

International Classification:

B29C 65/80

US Classification:

156423, 156126, 156447, 156578

Abstract:

Apparatus and method in the use thereof attaches an annular transponder unit to an annular tire surface, the transponder unit being of a type having a sensor housing coupled to an annular antenna. The apparatus includes a rotary turntable for supportably rotating a tire having an annular tire surface in an accessible disposition and an arm proximately disposed to the turntable and having end-of-arm tooling for attaching the transponder unit section by section to the annular tire surface as the tire is rotated. The tooling includes a gripping mechanism engaging the sensor housing and placing the sensor housing at a preselected location on the annular tire surface and a guide mechanism engaging the annular antenna and positioning the annular antenna section by section along the annular tire surface as the tire is rotated. An adhesive material applicator nozzle is disposed between the guide mechanism and the gripping means for application of the adhesive material between the annular antenna and the annular tire surface as the tire is rotated. A pre-staging station supporting the transponder unit may further be utilized, the arm moving between the pre-staging station and the turntable and the gripping mechanism engaging the sensor housing at the pre-staging station to transport the transponder unit from the pre-staging station to the turntable.