Steel cords for the reinforcement of rubber articles

A steel cord for the reinforcement of rubber articles formed by twisting a plurality of steel filament wires, each filament wire being formed by dry-drawing a wire rod of high carbon steel comprising C:

• 0.78-0.90% by weight, Si:
• 0.10-0.30% by weight, Mn:
• 0.30-0.55% by weight and the remainder being iron and inevitable impurities, subjecting the drawn wire to a finish patenting treatment and wet-drawing to a given diameter according to a die path schedule such that a reduction of area and approach angle in the die are selected to make a depth of wire drawing maximum at a true strain in wire drawing of 1 to 2, in which all of the filament wires satisfy a relationship of T.gtoreq.230-148 logD, wherein D is a diameter of the filament wire and T is a tensile strength of the filament wire, and a difference in tensile strength between a surface layer portion and an internal portion in the filament wire is not more than 80 kgf/mm.sup.2.