Did You Know How Car Tires Were Made?
All of us know what a car tire is.
Car owners may know how to maintain tires for optimum usability and safety.
Yet when the tires are already worn out and were already replaced, what most people usually do is stock them in vacant areas and become breeding grounds for viruses and vermin.
If they know that scrap tires can be brought back to where they were manufactured, the amount of generated waste products may be lessened.
Tires are made of rubber, that's what most of us know.
Yet tires are made not just of rubber but as much as 200 various raw materials are combined and used in order to create one distinctly blended engineering, physics and chemistry concept that will provide consumers with the best possible level of efficiency, reliability, performance, comfort, safety, creativity and technology.
The first step in making tires is designing and planning.
This step is necessary to make tires that will match the performance requirements of the makers of the vehicles and the stresses which the vehicles may encounter.
Using the computer, the mathematical representations and values of the requirements of the vehicle maker are converted into specifications that are easier to apply and follow in the manufacturing process.
After the design has been completed, a prototype is first made for testing.
If there are any flaws observed during the testing, the design will be modified.
In general, custom-designed tires take months to finish, including the quality checks, inspection and testing.
The vehicle maker will order the tires to be mass produced if the design has been approved.
To meet the exact characteristics of the design, appropriate materials consisting of rubber, carbon black, pigments, antioxidants, special oils, silica and more additives are selected.
Tires are composed of different parts and each part is made of discrete compounds.
The collected raw materials for each compound are combined in a machine called banbury mixer to produce a homogeneous black material of consistency similar to gum.
Uniformity is achieved in the banbury mixer because it is controlled by a computer.
The homogeneous material is then further processed in different machines to produce the tread, sidewalls and other tire parts.
When the parts have been made, they are then assembled to make the final tire product.
The inner liner is the first tire component that goes into the machine that builds the tire.
The inner liner is air and moisture resistant that is made of special rubber.
The belts and body plies made of steel and polyester are placed into the machine next.
These components strengthen the tire and make it flexible.
The tire engineer will specify certain angles and cuts for riding and handling characteristics that are obtained using the belts.
The sidewall of tire has a bead formed by implanting two hoops made of steel wire strands coated with bronze.
The bead will ensure the tire to have excellent fit with the wheel rim.
Sidewalls and tread are then positioned next onto the plies and belts.
Lastly, the tire is then cured by placing it in a mold.
The tire is inflated so it presses against the mold to emboss the information required to be seen on the tire's sidewall.
Furthermore it is heated at a temperature above 300°F for up to 15 minutes then vulcanized for rubber curing and components bonding.
Car owners may know how to maintain tires for optimum usability and safety.
Yet when the tires are already worn out and were already replaced, what most people usually do is stock them in vacant areas and become breeding grounds for viruses and vermin.
If they know that scrap tires can be brought back to where they were manufactured, the amount of generated waste products may be lessened.
Tires are made of rubber, that's what most of us know.
Yet tires are made not just of rubber but as much as 200 various raw materials are combined and used in order to create one distinctly blended engineering, physics and chemistry concept that will provide consumers with the best possible level of efficiency, reliability, performance, comfort, safety, creativity and technology.
The first step in making tires is designing and planning.
This step is necessary to make tires that will match the performance requirements of the makers of the vehicles and the stresses which the vehicles may encounter.
Using the computer, the mathematical representations and values of the requirements of the vehicle maker are converted into specifications that are easier to apply and follow in the manufacturing process.
After the design has been completed, a prototype is first made for testing.
If there are any flaws observed during the testing, the design will be modified.
In general, custom-designed tires take months to finish, including the quality checks, inspection and testing.
The vehicle maker will order the tires to be mass produced if the design has been approved.
To meet the exact characteristics of the design, appropriate materials consisting of rubber, carbon black, pigments, antioxidants, special oils, silica and more additives are selected.
Tires are composed of different parts and each part is made of discrete compounds.
The collected raw materials for each compound are combined in a machine called banbury mixer to produce a homogeneous black material of consistency similar to gum.
Uniformity is achieved in the banbury mixer because it is controlled by a computer.
The homogeneous material is then further processed in different machines to produce the tread, sidewalls and other tire parts.
When the parts have been made, they are then assembled to make the final tire product.
The inner liner is the first tire component that goes into the machine that builds the tire.
The inner liner is air and moisture resistant that is made of special rubber.
The belts and body plies made of steel and polyester are placed into the machine next.
These components strengthen the tire and make it flexible.
The tire engineer will specify certain angles and cuts for riding and handling characteristics that are obtained using the belts.
The sidewall of tire has a bead formed by implanting two hoops made of steel wire strands coated with bronze.
The bead will ensure the tire to have excellent fit with the wheel rim.
Sidewalls and tread are then positioned next onto the plies and belts.
Lastly, the tire is then cured by placing it in a mold.
The tire is inflated so it presses against the mold to emboss the information required to be seen on the tire's sidewall.
Furthermore it is heated at a temperature above 300°F for up to 15 minutes then vulcanized for rubber curing and components bonding.
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