Abstract:
Well tools are run into a well, usually a deviated well, using a composite wireline cable made up of a bundle of parallel slidable composite rods and electrical or optical conductors covered with a flexible protective sheath. The cable is stored on a spool and from there it is run into and retrieved from the well.
Abstract:
A method of making metallic cable (10) suitable for reinforcing elastomeric articles which comprises two or more substantially identical helical formed filaments (11, 12, 13) nested together and secured to one another by axially spaced apart applications of an adhesive substance.
Abstract:
Reinforcing elements comprise a plurality of elongated metallic members, with substantially rectangular cross sections, having parallel longitudinal axes and at least one of the wide sides of each being contiguous with a wide side of another of said elongated metallic members. A single wrap member is helically disposed around the elongated metallic members such that each turn of the wrap filament member is spaced apart from the next adjacent turns of the wrap member. Elastomeric articles reinforced with these reinforcing elements are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a relatively or completely maintenance-free tension member suitable for construction of structures, such as cable stayed bridges and a method and apparatus for producing such tension members.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for making a cable particularly well suited for reinforcing elastomeric articles such as belts and tires for motor vehicles. A plurality of metallic filaments are bundled together and helically wound by passing the bundle over a deflecting edge without twisting the filaments around each other. One or more wrapping filaments are then passed over a similar deflecting edge to pre-form the wrapping filament into a helical shape. The wrapping filament is then wound about the bundle while maintaining the hand and pitch of the pre-formed helical shape of the wrapping filament to correspond to those of the filaments of the bundle. The apparatus provided for practicing the method has a horizontal rotor which is driven about a spindle and a plurality of spools independently suspended for feeding filaments to be cabled to the rotor. The rotor has a plurality of filament guide means of which some are adapted to bend a bundle of filaments fed to the rotor to form a helical configuration without winding one filament of the bundle about the other filaments. A spool of wrapping filament is disposed within the rotor and wrapping filament and helically wound core filaments are fed to a cabling device where the wrapping filament is helically wound about the core filaments. A cable prepared in accordance with the method and apparatus provided by this invention is disclosed in my application being Ser. No. 682,264 filed on May 3, 1976, and corresponding to Netherlands Pat. No. 7 505 523 filed May 12, 1975.
Abstract:
A metallic cable adapted to be used to advantage for reinforcing various types of elastomeric articles such as belts and motor vehicle tires has a core formed from two or more metallic filaments wound together into a helical shape without twisting one filament about the other whereby each core filament lies in line contact with at least one other core filament, the line of contact being parallel to the direction of the filament and a helically wound wrapping filament is disposed about the core filaments. The wrapping filament is helically wound at the same lay and hand as the core filaments and is positioned on the inside of the helix formed by the core filaments.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire comprises a bead, a package bead ring in the bead, and a carcass reinforcement turned around the bead ring. The bead ring comprises at least one wire having a cross section of a quadrilateral with two parallel opposite faces. The wire or wires form multiple turns around the tire through the bead that are contiguous in directions extending both radially and axially of the tire.
Abstract:
A high-strength parallel yarn rope comprises a series of multifilament rope yarns which are bounded together in parallel relation along their lengths by a binder distributed only on the surfaces of the yarns to form a flexible rope core. The core is surrounded by a braided jacket, and a flexible layer of waterimpervious material adhesively and mechanically bonds the core to the jacket. A method is also disclosed for manufacturing the rope.
Abstract:
A coreless glass fiber cable is made of a plurality of individual substantially untwisted glass fiber rovings twisted together. Certain of the rovings are impregnated with one component of an elastomeric resin with the remainder of the rovings impregnated with the second component of the elastomeric resin. The impregnated rovings are spirally twisted together in the same direction at substantially the same helical angle, the two components of the elastomeric resin impregnating the rovings mixing with each other at the junction of the intertwining of the rovings to form a cured elastomer spacing the glass fiber rovings and filaments making up the rovings from each other. The layed up glass fiber cable is fed back on itself and subsequent layers of impregnated rovings plied together over the initial layers. The subsequently applied layers are applied at the same helical angle as the initial layer. The cable, although useful for other purposes, is particularly useful in the manufacture of endless track for track vehicles, the endless track comprising a plurality of individual track sections strung along a cable of the type mentioned.