Atmospheric plasma treatment of reinforcement cords and use in rubber articles
OwnerFrederic Gerard Auguste SIFFER, Jerome Bernard HOBELMAN +5inventors
InventorsFrederic Gerard Auguste SIFFER, Jerome Bernard HOBELMAN, James Gregory GILLICK, Michael Lawrence GERSMAN, Dinesh CHANDRA, Dan QU, Bina Patel BOTTS
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to A method of making a cord-reinforced rubber article, comprising the steps of A) mixing a carrier gas, sulfur and an alkyne, to form a gas mixture; B) generating an atmospheric pressure plasma from the gas mixture; C) exposing a reinforcement cord to the atmospheric pressure plasma to produce a coated reinforcement cord; and D) contacting the coated reinforcement cord with a rubber composition comprising a diene based elastomer.
Claims16
A method of making a cord-reinforced rubber article, comprising the steps of
- A) mixing a carrier gas, sulfur and an alkyne, to form a gas mixture;
- B) generating an atmospheric pressure plasma from the gas mixture;
- C) exposing a reinforcement cord to the atmospheric pressure plasma to produce a. coated reinforcement cord;
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- D) contacting the coated reinforcement cord with a rubber composition comprising a diene based elastomer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.