Metal cord and composite material comprising the metal cord and rubber
AssigneesSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorsKenichi Okamoto, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Kazuhiko Kawamura
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Abstract
A metal cord is formed by twisting two spirally preshaped metal filaments together with a twisting pitch P. The metal filament has not only the spiral shape formed by twisting, but retains so much of its spiral preshape as to have a pitch p equal to 0.20-0.50 times the twisting pitch and a diametric height h of 0.05-0.25 mm. The retained spiral shape is in the same rotary direction as the direction in which the filaments are twisted together.
Claims2
A metal cord consisting of two spirally shaped filaments twisted about one another in a direction of twist at a twisting pitch P, each of said filaments while extending in said direction of twist also retaining a spiral shape inscribing a respective inner circle projected along a respective path along which the filament is twisted about the other filament, said inner circle having a diameter d equal to the diameter of the filament plus 0.05-0.25 mm, the spiralling of each of said filaments within the inner projected circle of diameter d occurring in the same rotary direction as said direction of twist, and the pitch of said spiral shape being 0.20-0.50 times said twisting pitch P.
A composite material comprising a main component of rubber and a metal cord embedded in and reinforcing the rubber main component, said metal cord consisting of two spirally shaped filaments twisted about one another in a direction of twist at a twisting pitch P, each of said filaments while extending in said direction of twist also retaining a spiral shape inscribing a respective inner circle projected along a respective path along which the filament is twisted about the other filament, said inner circle having a diameter d equal to the diameter of the filament plus 0.05-0.25 mm, the spiralling of each of said filaments within the inner projected circle of diameter d occurring in the same rotary direction as said direction of twist, and the pitch of said spiral shape being 0.20-0.50 times said twisting pitch P.
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