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Abstract

A skiving equipment which permits a great reduction of labor and also permits the skiving work to be done always to an appropriate extent. This skiving equipment 1 includes a rotating member 6 for rotating a buffed tire about an axis while supporting the tire; a camera 41 for photographing a belt portion of the tire; a camera controller 44 for analyzing skiving conditions, including a skiving position, from a photographed image obtained by the camera; a grinder 20 which operates in accordance with skiving condition signals provided from the camera controller 44 to skive the belt portion of the tire in each skiving position; a proximity sensor 31 for detecting the position of wire embedded in the tire; an optical sensor 32 for checking whether the wire is exposed or not; and a controller 45 for controlling the operation of the rotating member 6 and that of the grinder 20 in accordance with information provided from the camera controller 44, proximity sensor 31 and optical sensor 32, the robot controller controlling the movement of the grinder 20 in accordance with the skiving conditions, including a skiving position, provided from the camera controller 44, determining the number of times of skiving in one skiving position on the basis of the detected information provided from the proximity sensor 31, and controlling the grinder 20 to stop the skiving work in the skiving position when the exposure of the wire is detected by the optical sensor 32.

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