Process and apparatus for preparing a carcass for a pneumatic vehicle tire

A process for preparing a carcass for a pneumatic vehicle tire, which is complemented with a belt bandage and a tread strip (8) for the finished green tire, the method comprising the steps of: - building a side-wall-free carcass (25) having an inner layer (1), a single or multilayer carcass insert (2), bead cores (3), in particular having core profiles (4), on a Karkassstation (10) on a carcass building drum (16 ) and capable of creating envelopes, - application of the sidewalls (7 ') to the carcass (25), - converting the the side walls (7 ') provided with carcass (25) to a Bombiermaschine (22) and bowing of the carcass (25) in a toroidal shape. The carcass sidewall freely created (25) is transferred to a first transfer device which is the carcass (25) to a side wall of station (11) proceeds, brought up to which two side wall drums (19) on the side of the tire carcass (25) and are clamped therewith, then being dissolved, the transfer device from the carcass (25) and to Karkassstation (10) back down, the side walls (7 ') wound on the side wall of the drums (19) and are rolled on the side of the tire carcass (25), and wherein subsequently a second transfer means takes over the tire carcass (25) of the side wall of the drums (19) and to Bombierstation (12) moves.