Abstract: Apparatus for transferring a looped article to a cylindrical structure, comprising a collapsible ring structure having a center axis aligned with the center axis of the cylindrical structure and a centering plane parallel with the central plane of the cylindrical structure, the ring structure being radially deformable about the center axis thereof, a carrier supporting the ring structure and operative to move the ring structure toward and away from the cylindrical structure, and plural pairs of centering elements provided radially inside the ring structure. Each pair of centering elements are located on both sides of the centering plane of the ring structure and consist of centering elements located on both sides of the centering plane of the ring structure and movable toward and away from the centering plane of the ring structure.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for separating a bead core from a plurality of looped bead cores arranged in the form of a tube with the adjacent bead cores endwise sticking to one another, wherein the tube of the bead cores are wrapped round a radially collapsible feed drum whereupon the bead feed unit is driven for movement from a first predetermined position to a second predetermined position in a first predetermined direction parallel with the center axis of the feed drum. The tube of the bead cores is then pressed on the feed drum toward one axial end of the feed drum until the foremost one of the bead cores on the feed drum departs from the feed drum.

Abstract: A tire bead wire supply apparatus for supplying bead wires for tires one to each of a plurality of treating means for the bead wires.According to the invention the apparatus comprises holding means for holding a plurality of bead wires, driving means for moving the holding means so as to pass in immediate front of each of the treating means in succession and stopping the holding means at the immediate front of each of the treating means and transferring means for receiving each of the bead wires from the holding means stopped at the immediate front of each of the treating means and transferring it to the each of the treating means, thereby making the apparatus inexpensive and small-sized and operate with higher efficiency.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rubber composition comprising at least 20% by weight of styrene-butadiene copolymer based on the total weight of the rubber content. The styrene-butadiene copolymer is obtained by randomly copolymerizing styrene with 1,3-butadiene in a hydrocarbon solvent in the presence of an organolithium compound as an initiator and then subjecting to a coupling reaction with a polyfunctional coupling agent, and contains 30-70% by weight of branched polymers therein, and has the following properties:(a) a content of bound styrene in the copolymer 3-15% by weight;(b) a content of vinyl bonds contained in the butadiene units is 15-30% by weight;(c) a Mooney viscosity (ML.sub.1+4.sup.100.degree. C.) is 15-50; and(d) a molecular weight distribution of the copolymer is bimodal at a ratio Mw/Mn of 1.4-2.2 in which Mw is a weight-average molecular weight and Mn is a number-average molecular weight.

Abstract: A conveyor belt is disclosed, which comprises an upper covering rubber layer, a lower covering rubber layer, and a core layer embedded between the upper and lower covering layers and is adapted for used in conveyance while being elastically deformed in such a cylindrical shape as to overlap the widthwise edge portions thereof with each other. In this type of the conveyor belt, a low friction layer is provided on each of both surfaces of the belt at the overlap portion.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire having an excellent cut resistance is disclosed, which comprises an annular crown portion constituting a tread, a pair of side portions supporting said crown portion, a pair of bead portions located at each foot of said side portions for fitting to a rim, a carcass layer composed of at least one rubberized cord ply toroidally extending between said bead portions and a liner layer disposed inside and adjacent to said carcass layer.In the tire according to the invention, a fault surface having an extremely low adhesion which intercepts the crack growth from the outside of the tire is further arranged in said liner layer at at least a part of a region extending between said bead portions.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire having an excellent cut resistance is disclosed, which comprises an annular crown portion constituting a tread, a pair of side portions supporting said crown portion, a pair of bead portions located at each foot of said side portions for fitting to a rim, a carcass layer composed of at least one rubberized cord ply toroidally extending between said bead portions and a liner layer disposed indise and adjacent to said carcass layer.In the tire according to the invention, a fault surface having an extremely low adhesion which intercepts the crack growth from the outside of the tire is further arranged in said liner layer at at least a part of a region extending between said bead portions.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting out an edge portion of a coating sheet wherein a plurality of cords arranged at substantially equal intervals and in parallel with each other and conveyed along a predetermined path are integrally coated with rubber or the like in such a manner that the cord portions are expanded, to a predetermined length from the most externally positioned cord portion of the coating sheet in transversal direction thereof is disclosed.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire is disclosed, which comprises a carcass composed of at least one ply and an inner liner arranged inside the carcass and composed of plural rubber layers. In the tire of this type, the inner liner comprises at least three layers of an outermost layer adjacent to the carcass, an innermost layer facing the inner space of the tire and an intermediate layer interposed between the innermost and outermost layers. The innermost layer is composed of a rubber composition containing 15-60 parts by weight of natural rubber and the balance of a halogenated butyl polymer as a rubber component, while the intermediate layer is composed of a rubber composition containing only a halogenated butyl polymer as a rubber component, which is different from that of the outermost layer in the rubber component.

Abstract: A sealant composition for the puncture-sealing tire and a method of producing the same are disclosed. This sealant composition is crosslinking-reaction type and comprises (A) at least one rubber, (B) a tackifier, (C) an acryloyl or methacryloyl group-containing polymerizable unsaturated compound, (D) a filler and (E) a photopolymerization initiator. In the production of the sealant composition, the component (A) is first reacted with the component (C) and then kneaded with the components (B), (D) and (E).

Abstract: A marine fender provided with a shock receiving plate is disclosed. In the marine fender, at least one rod member is embedded in a shock receiving portion along its side edge and connected to the shock receiving plate by means of connecting members.

Abstract: A heavy duty pneumatic radial tire is disclosed, which comprises a tread portion, a pair of side portions, a pair of bead portions each reinforced with a bead ring, a radial carcass ply, a metal cord reinforcing layer and a composite rubber filler. In this tire, the carcass ply is a rubberized layer of aromatic polyamide fiber cords and a tip of its turnup portion terminates at a position lower than an upper end of a rim flange when the tire is mounted on a rim. In the metal cord reinforcing layer, one end facing the turnup portion terminates over the tip of the turnup portion and the other end facing the carcass ply extends toward the side portion over a position corresponding to the above-mentioned one end facing the turnup portion.

Abstract: A rolled sheet paying out transfer apparatus comprises a support frame for supporting a rolled sheet having a liner interposed between turns of the rolled sheets so as to paying out the sheet by winding up the liner, an intermediate conveyor for holding the paid sheet separately from the liner with the aid of an attractive force and introducing the sheet toward a delivery conveyor, and a pushing-down roller for pushing down the sheet at a termination of the intermediate conveyor so as to transfer the sheet onto the delivery conveyor.The apparatus according to the invention automatically holding the sheet immediately below a starting end of the intermediate conveyor, introducing the sheet toward the delivery conveyor, and transferring the front end of the sheet onto the delivery conveyor, without requiring any trouble-some manual operation as required in the prior art.

Abstract: A butadiene-base polymer containing a branched polymer through tin-carbon bond and a process for producing the same are disclosed. The butadiene-base polymer is produced by polymerizing 1,3-butadiene alone or 1,3-butadiene and aromatic vinyl compound in a hydrocarbon solvent in the presence of a Lewis base using an organolithium compound as an initiator and then coupling with a tin halide, and satisfies the following requirements:(1) a content of a bound aromatic vinyl compound in the butadiene-base polymer is 0-40% by weight;(2) a ratio of vinyl bond-containing butadiene unit in the toal butadiene unit of the butadiene-base polymer is 30-90%;(3) a ratio of the branched polymer in the butadiene-base polymer is at least 30% by weight; and(4) a ratio of a component having a molecular weight of less than 100,000 as polystyrene in the molecular weight distribution as measured by a gel permeation chromatography is 10-20% by weight.

Abstract: A polybutadiene rubber composition having an improved green strength is disclosed, which comprises a polybutadiene having a content of cis-1,4 bond of at least 70%, an average chain length of 1,4-bond of 110.about.450 and a molecular weight distribution represented by a ratio of weight-average molecular weight to number-average molecular weight of not less than 5.0.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for detecting a sound source, a measurement plane to be observed is automatically scanned in two-dimensional manner by means of two microphones which are spaced apart from each other by a given distance and are moved by a traversing device. Outputs of these microphones are sampled for successive measurement regions and then are processed by processing circuit including a fast Fourier transform to derive acoustic intensities with respect to various frequencies in a given frequency range. Then, a distribution of the acoustic intensities is indicated on a display device by using various indication techniques. Therefore, since the measurement is effected by using the acoustic intensity representing both a sound power and a propagating direction, the analysis of the sound source can be performed in an easy and accurate manner, and an entier apparatus can be small in size and inexpensive in cost.