Abstract:
A two-layered twisted steel cord for reinforcing rubber articles, comprising a core including two filaments and a sheath including six or seven filaments wound around the core, in which an average twist pitch of the core is set to be at least 30 mm, and when six filaments are used for the sheath, a ratio of diameter ds of each filament of the sheath to diameter dc of each filament of the core, �(ds/dc).times.100!, is set in a range of 58.0 %
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire which comprises a carcass turned up around bead cores and a belt comprising a ply of parallel hybrid cords disposed radially outside the carcass. Each hybrid cord comprises at least one aramid strand and at least one steel strand which are twisted together. The aramid strand is made of aramid fiber filaments twisted together, and the steel strand is made of a steel monofilament.
Abstract:
A steel cord for reinforcing automobile tires is composed by intertwisting at least one material wire having small spiral-like curls and 1 to 5 straight material wires. This restricts the ratio of fracture elongation of the two kinds of material wires as well as the elongation percent of the cord at 5 kg loading and improves the stability of twist, the fatigue resistance, the penetrability of a rubber compound and the handling workability.
Abstract:
A steel cord of 1+3 structure is formed by twisting three sheath steel filaments around a single core steel filament. In this case, the three sheath steel filaments are arranged so as to satisfy conditions at a section of the sheath perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the cord that a maximum angle of a triangle formed by connecting central points of the these filaments to each other is not less than 90.degree. but less than 180.degree. and an apex defining the maximum angle is always located on the same filament and a distance between the central point of this filament and the central point of the filament adjacent thereto is 1.0-1.3 times of the diameter of the filament.
Abstract:
A metal cord is constructed by twisting three metal filaments in the same direction, and satisfies Lmax.gtoreq.1.05d, Lmin.gtoreq.1d and Lmax/Lmin.gtoreq.1.05 (Lmax : center distance between longest separated metal filaments, Lmin : center distance between shortest separated metal filaments, d : diameter of metal filament), and has specified twisting pitch and elongation under a load of 5 kg/cord. A pneumatic tire comprises a belt composed of plural belt layers each containing the above metal cords arranged at a given inclination angle with respect to the circumferential direction of the tire.
Abstract:
A wire rope, and method of making same, is provided wherein the wire core is lubricated with a heavy viscous lubricant and impregnated with thermoplastic material. The wire rope strands are embedded in the thermoplastic material which holds these strands in a spaced relationship from the core and from each other.
Abstract:
A cord (50) comprises a single layer (52) of helically wound metal filamentary elements (54). The metal filamentary elements define an internal enclosure (58) of the cord of diameter Dv. Each metal filamentary element (54) has a diameter Df and a helix radius of curvature Rf. With Dv, Df and Rf being expressed in millimetres, the cord satisfies the following relationships: 9≤Rf/Df≤30 and 1.30≤Dv/Df≤2.10.
Abstract:
A hybrid strand includes a core and outer wires arranged around the core, wherein at least a part of the outer wires is compressed, wherein the compressed outer wires include a flattened cross-sectional shape, the outer wires are composed of steel, and the core is a fiber core. A corresponding production method produces such a hybrid strand.
Abstract:
A steel cord for reinforcing a breaker or belt ply in a rubber tire having a core group and a sheath group. The core group consists of two to four core steel filaments with a first diameter dc and the sheath group consists of one to six sheath steel filaments with a second diameter ds. The ratio dc/ds of the first diameter dc to the second diameter ds ranges from 1.10 to 1.70. The two core steel filaments are untwisted or have a twisting step greater than 300 mm. The sheath group is twisted around the core group with a cord twisting step in a cord twisting direction. The ratio of the difference in residual torsions of the core group and the sheath group to the difference in saturation level between the core group and the sheath group ranges from 0.10 to 0.65, preferably from 0.10 to 0.60.