A method of molding a tire that has a container (12) that includes the steps of placing an uncured tire into a mold, and providing a bladder (16) that has a flexible portion (18) and an insert (20) that has a cavity configured for molding the container into the tire. The bladder has a fluid therein and is inflated within the mold, and material of the uncured tire flows into the cavity of the insert (20). Sufficient heat and pressure is applied to the uncured tire to at least partially cure the tire when the uncured tire is in the mold. The material in the insert (20) forms the container (12) such that the container is integrally formed with other portions of the tire. The mold is opened to retrieve the tire.

A release agent composition for tire-molding contains: (A) 100 parts by mass of an organopolysiloxane containing at least two hydroxy groups bonded to a silicon atom in one molecule and having a viscosity at 25° C. of 10,000 mPa.Math.s or higher; (B) 10 to 100 parts by mass of an organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing at least two hydrogen atoms bonded to a silicon atom in one molecule relative to 100 parts by mass of the component (A); (C) 10 to 10,000 parts by mass of water relative to 100 parts by mass of the component (A); and (D) 2 to 70 parts by mass of a polyvinyl alcohol relative to 100 parts by mass of the component (A). The release agent composition for tire-molding is excellent in release. Molding and vulcanizing tires repeatedly in succession a larger number of times without applying a release agent after once applying a release agent is realized.

The present invention relates to compositions in the form of silicone oil emulsions intended to be applied to curing bladders as a mould-release agent during tyre production.

A method for detecting a puncture in a tire curing bladder during a curing process of heating and pressurizing an uncured tire set in a curing mold from an inside with the bladder, the curing process has the steps of heating the tire with the bladder having a first internal pressure applied by feed of a first curing medium, and pressurizing the tire with the bladder having a second internal pressure applied by feed of a second curing medium after the heating step. The second internal pressure is higher than the first internal pressure. In the pressurizing step, the bladder having the second internal pressure is depressurized at least temporarily, and a sensor detects leakage of the first curing medium to detect a puncture.

Provided is a tire vulcanizing method enabling an optimum vulcanization operation for each tire by measuring the temperatures of the inner surface and the outer surface of a tire until the demolding timing without damaging the tire and by determining the vulcanized state of the tire accurately based on the measured temperature data to efficiently produce uniformly vulcanized tires especially under conditions where the temperature of a mold fluctuates. During vulcanization of a tire G, the temperatures of the inner surface and the outer surface at a plurality of principal portions representing the tire G are measured, and the demolding timing is determined according to the equivalent degree of vulcanization indicating the degree of progress in crosslinking reaction calculated based on the temperature data measured.

A curing bladder (7) for a tire has a shape of revolution about a central axis and a flexible wall made of crosslinked rubber, the external surface of which is intended to come into contact with the internal surface of a green tire during curing, the external surface having a relief structure having a plurality of air evacuation channels. The relief structure has first channels forming air evacuation grooves (100) arranged at a distance of between 2 and 5 mm, and having a depth of between 0.4 and 1 mm, two adjacent grooves defining, between one another, an inter-groove zone (500) having second channels forming air channelling furrows (1000) made so as to communicate with one another and with at least one of the grooves (100), the furrows each having a depth of between 0.01 and 0.4 mm and being situated at a distance of between 0.2 and 1 mm from one another.

A composition can comprise: an elastomeric composition formed into a curing bladder, the elastomeric composition comprising: 100 parts per hundred parts rubber (phr) of an elastomer comprising a C.sub.4-C.sub.7 isoolefin, a non-halogenated alkylstyrene, and a halogenated alkylstyrene; 1 phr to 7.5 phr alkyl phenol formaldehyde resin; and 0.5 phr to 5 phr mercaptobenzothiazole disulfide. A related method of making a tire curing bladder comprises: mixing 100 phr of an elastomer composition comprising a C.sub.4-C.sub.7 isoolefin, a non-halogenated alkylstyrene, and a halogenated alkylstyrene, 1 phr to 7.5 phr alkyl phenol formaldehyde resin, and 0.5 phr to 5 phr mercaptobenzothiazole disulfide; and molding and curing the mixture into the shape of a tire curing bladder.

Provided is a tire vulcanizing bladder comprising fluororubber, wherein a plurality of grooves extending in a width direction are formed on a circumference of an outer surface of the tire vulcanizing bladder, and a plurality of recesses connecting the grooves to each other are formed between the grooves. Also provided is a pneumatic tire comprising one or more fluorine-containing particles having a maximum diameter of 1.0 μm or more per area of 100 μm.sup.2 of a tire inner surface, wherein a plurality of bladder ridges extending in a tire width direction are formed on a circumference of the tire inner surface, and a plurality of protrusions connecting the bladder ridges to each other are formed between the bladder ridges.

A system for maintaining low pressure within a tire press bladder when the press is open and controlling pressure by using an orifice on the supply line side of the tire press bladder. The supply line runs from a high-pressure supply media to a tire press bladder. A three-way valve alternates in directing high pressure directly through the supply line and directing high pressure to an orifice. Simultaneously the pressure in the bladder is controlled by a regulating valve on the drain side piping. When the press is closed on a tire, the three-way valve supplies high pressure from the supply line directly to the tire press bladder.

A tire vulcanizing system (100) is provided that optimizes the service life of guidance means and preserves the thermal stability of the vulcanization.