Novel Splice Vulcanizing Presses with Optimized Heating and Pressure Characteristics

Within the framework of a research project new mechanisms and methods are demonstrated for the optimization of the belt splice manufacturing process. Main objective of the work is to develop concepts for splice vulcanization presses that optimise the splice processing time. For optimization of temperature distribution, mechanisms of microwave and induction heating have been examined. Due to easier implementation and practicality, the mechanism of induction heating was focused for laboratory tests. The development of systems applying homogeneous pressure will be an objective in future work.