Method and apparatus for producing unvulcanized-rubber/steel-wire composites
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorSusumu Imamiya
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Abstract
In a method of the present invention for producing an unvulcanized-rubber/steel-wire composite, steel wires are continuously drawn, and the drawn steel wires are not taken up but fed to a rubber coater so that the steel wires are coated with unvulcanized rubber. An apparatus of the present invention for producing an unvulcanized-rubber/steel-wire composite comprises a wire drawer for drawing steel wires continuously, and a rubber coater for coating the steel wires with unvulcanized rubber, and the steel wires drawn by the wire drawer are not taken up but are led to the rubber coater.
Claims13
A method for producing an unvulcanized-rubber/steel-wire composite, characterized:
- by drawing
- steel wires continuously;
- and by not taking up but feeding said drawn steel wires to a rubber coater so that
- said steel wires are coated with unvulcanized rubber.
An apparatus for producing an unvulcanized-rubber/steel-wire composite, characterized:
- by comprising a wire drawer for drawing steel wires continuously, and a rubber coater for coating said steel wires with unvulcanized rubber;
- and in that the steel wires drawn by said wire drawer are not taken up but are led to said rubber coater.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.