Douglas E 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:

D468214, Jan 7, 2003

Filed:

Jul 5, 2001

Appl. No.:

29/144535

Inventors:

Gene J. Kuzma - Columbus OH
Douglas W. Weaver - Columbus OH
Dorothy M. Ng - Columbus OH

Assignee:

C. K. Packaging, Inc. - Plain City OH

International Classification:

0901

US Classification:

D 9558

US Patent:

D468643, Jan 14, 2003

Filed:

Sep 20, 2001

Appl. No.:

29/148460

Inventors:

Gene J. Kuzma - Columbus OH
Douglas W. Weaver - Columbus OH
Dorothy M. Ng - Columbus OH

Assignee:

G. K. Packaging, Inc. - Plain City OH

International Classification:

0901

US Classification:

D 9552, D9558

US Patent:

D468644, Jan 14, 2003

Filed:

Jul 5, 2001

Appl. No.:

29/144560

Inventors:

Gene J. Kuzma - Columbus OH
Douglas W. Weaver - Columbus OH

Assignee:

G. K. Packaging, Inc. - Plain City OH

International Classification:

0901

US Classification:

D 9558

US Patent:

D469022, Jan 21, 2003

Filed:

Jul 5, 2001

Appl. No.:

29/144533

Inventors:

Gene J. Kuzma - Columbus OH
Douglas W. Weaver - Columbus OH
Dorothy M. Ng - Columbus OH

Assignee:

G. K. Packaging, Inc. - Plain City OH

International Classification:

0901

US Classification:

D 9550, D9558

US Patent:

D471111, Mar 4, 2003

Filed:

Sep 25, 2001

Appl. No.:

29/148725

Inventors:

Gene J. Kuzma - Columbus OH
Douglas W. Weaver - Columbus OH
Dorothy M. Ng - Columbus OH

Assignee:

G. K. Packaging, Inc. - Plain City OH

International Classification:

0901

US Classification:

D 9543, D9564

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 ( ).