Tire sorting system

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B07C 3/14 (2006.01) B07C 5/34 (2006.01) B29D 30/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1242780

TIRE SORTING SYSTEM ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An apparatus for sorting tires according to an alphanumeric code imprinted directly on the tread sur- face of each tire. Green (uncured) tires are supplied on a feed conveyor, single file, to a receiving station of a tire painting machine (tire painter), and each is elevated, then indexed to a painting station (booth) where the green tire is to be painted, inside and out- side, before it is taken to a curing press. While in the elevated position in the booth, the code is optically read by a line-scan camera system, before the tire is painted. The information read is stored and processed by a microprocessor after it locates the code which determines how the tire is to he sorted, and disregards another production code not pertinent to the task at hand. A first programmable controller (PC) locates the horizontal center line of the tire, indexes to the next of three station in the painter on cue, and imparts rotation to the tire so that the camera system can perform its functions. A second PC generates a process signal indicating the availability of a space on a main conveyor which supplies plural sorting conveyors, and also generates a signal to eject a tire in a designated occupied space on the sorting conveyor, into a designat- ed chute for a preselected tire.

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