US Patent Issued to VMI HOLLAND on Sept. 15 for "Tire building drum and method for turning-up a tire component" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,776, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).

"Tire building drum and method for turning-up a tire component" was invented by Tom Regterschot (Epe, Netherlands) and Martin De Graaf (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire building drum and a method are provided for turning-up a tire component. The tire building drum comprises a drum body that is rotatable about a drum axis, an inflatable turn-up bladder extending in a circumferential direction about the drum axis around the drum body for turning-up a tire component supported on the turn-up bladder, and a plurality of pressing arms for p...