Store for tire casings
View Patent ↗Storing vehicle tire casings (4) by providing at least two channels (12) for storing casings, each one having an end stop (22), and a casing conveyor, capable of coming into alignment with any of the channels and containing a platform (32) that can receive a casing. A casing located in the channel is lifted until it is higher than the end stop. The lifting is done by a roller (46), which is mounted in such a way that it can move in the vertical direction in relation to the platform.
1. A store for vehicle tire casings comprising:
at least two channels for storing casings, each having a rectilinear end stop, intercepting a median vertical plane of the channel, exhibiting two longitudinal extremities and being uninterrupted from one to the other of the extremities; and
a casing conveyor configured for coming into alignment with any of the channels and containing a platform configured for receiving a casing and means for lifting a casing that is located in the channel to a height greater than that of the end stop, the means containing a roller which is mounted movably in the vertical direction in relation to the platform.
2. The store according to claim 1 , wherein the roller is movably mounted in translation in relation to the platform.
3. The store according to claim 1 , wherein the roller is movably mounted in relation to the platform in such a way as to pass through an opening arranged in each channel.
4. The store according to claim 1 , wherein the roller is connected to the platform by a parallelogram mounting.
5. The store according to claim 4 , wherein the mounting defines two extremities of the travel of the roller and extends in its entirety beneath a loading plane of the platform regardless of the position of the roller.
6. The store according to claim 1 , further comprising means for displacing the roller in relation to the platform.
7. The store according to claim 1 , wherein the means for lifting the casing contain a support, the roller being rotatably mounted in relation to the support.
8. The store according to claim 7 , further comprising means for setting the roller in rotation in relation to the support.
9. The store according to claim 1 , wherein the roller exhibits a length greater than half the width available in the channel for the casings.
10. The store according to claim 1 , wherein the end stop extends for more than half the width available in the channel for the casings.
11. The store according to claim 1 , wherein each channel is inclined in such a way that a casing received in one of the channels tends to move as far as the end stop.
12. The store according to claim 1 , further comprising a second casing conveyor, adapted to come into alignment with an extremity of any of the channels opposite the end stop.
13. A method for handling vehicle tire casings, comprising:
displacing a casing conveyor as far as a channel for storing casings, and
with the conveyor, lifting a casing that is present in the channel to a height greater than that of an end stop of the channel, said end stop being a rectilinear end stop, intercepting a median vertical plane of the channel, exhibiting two longitudinal extremities and being uninterrupted from one to the other of the extremities.
14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the conveyor transfers the casing onto the conveyor.
15. The store according to claim 1 , wherein the platform is configured to be displaced so that it is aligned with one of the at least two channels.