Good to know about Tires in Baltimore

Baltimore Tires and Wheels

Tire production

Composition of rubber compound

Raw materials for tires includes pigments, chemicals and up to 30 different types of rubber, mixed in giant mixer tanks, known as Banbury mixers, with the enormous temperatures and pressures. With these many ingredients are mixed in a black viscous mass, which will grind and grind.



Shredding

The cooled rubber compound is cut into sheets and transported to a mixer. It prepared various mixtures for rolling machine where they were cut into strips, which will become the sidewalls, tread and other parts of the tire. Steel is another component used in the manufacture of tires, as well as many other materials such as Kevlar, rayon and nylon.



Tire Board

Another detail of the tire, bent like a hoop, is called a board. Click to its mounting on a wheel rim.



Tire Framework

Then there are two superposed layer of rubberized fabric (cord). From the outside of the board is located on-board tape of rubberized fabric, or cord, protecting the side of the rim of abrasion and damage during assembly and disassembly.



Tire Tread

Currently, more and more applied in the majority of producers are steel cord, which better resists punctures and presses the tread to the road. Tread - the last part in the process of manufacturing tires. After the automatic rolling press, which tightly connects all parts of the tire together, tire, now called a green tire ready for vulcanization and testing.



Tire Vulcanization

Vulcanizing press attaches the tire its final shape and tread pattern. Ardent mold bend and vulcanized tire. Mold cause the tread pattern and labeling products and labeling required by law, on the sidewall. Tires vulcanised at a temperature over 300 degrees for 12 - 25 minutes, depending on size.



Tire Test

If the tire is something wrong, or there is suspicion that the tire is something wrong, there is even a slight visual defect, tire zabrakovyvayut. Some deficiencies identified by trained hands and eyes inspector found some special machines. Checking tires is not limited to visual inspection. Some tires are removed from the production line and reveals the X-rays to detect hidden defects and internal destruction. In addition, quality control engineers regularly shoot randomly selected tire production line and cut them back and forth to study in detail the structure of the bus responsible for its operating properties and safety.