Abstract: Tire cord having enough high tensile strength, high initial modulus, and high fatigue resistance required for radial tire and belted bias tire can be obtained from polyvinyl alcohol polymer. Said cord is constituted by multifilament yarns composed of a polyvinyl alcohol polymer having a degree of polymerization of at least 2000, having a tensile strength of 15 g/d or more and an initial modulus of 250 g/d or more, and undergoing substantially no fusion between single filaments. It has cord properties of not less than 8.5 g/d in tensile strength, 0.5 to 2.2% in middle degree of elongation (MDE), and 0.2 to 2.0% in dry heat shrinkage factor (.DELTA.S).

Abstract: A steel cord usable for the reinforcement of rubber articles comprises a core of a single steel filament, an inner sheath composed of six steel filaments and an outer sheath composed of 7 to 12 steel filaments, wherein the steel filaments constituting the core, inner sheath and outer sheath have a diameter of 0.20.about.0.40 mm and satisfy the particular relations.

Abstract: A steel cord comprising at least 10 metal filaments and having an elongation of 0.015-0.045% under a load of 0.5 kgf, an elongation of 0.025-0.060% under a load 1 kgf, and an elongation of 0.060-0.114% under a load of 4 kgf, assuming that the elongation under a load of 0.05 kgf is 0%, has a soft twist construction and is suitable to be used in the carcass of a radial tire for truck and bus.

Abstract: A high tenacity polyhexamethylene adipamide fiber having:(1) a formic acid relative viscosity of 70 or more than 70;(2) a tenacity of at least 10 g/d; and(3) a coefficient of stability of tie molecule of at most 0.20.

Abstract: A reinforcement assembly to be impregnated with a plastic or rubber material for reinforcing an article, such as a pneumatic tire, the assembly having three layers of cords: a core layer, an intermediate layer and an outer layer. The intermediate layer and the outer layer have the same direction of winding and the same pitch. When the core layer is wound in the same direction as the intermediate layer, the pitches of these layers differ in such a manner that the ratio between the difference in the values of these two pitches and the larger value of these two pitches is at least equal to 0.30. In the intermediate layer the axis of each cord is arranged along a helix such that the ratio between the radius of curvature of said helix and the diameter of said cord is less than 75.

Abstract: A tire cord for the belts of a radial or bias-belted tire, is described as consisting of only two brass-coated metal wires which are helically twisted to have a lay length of from 14 to 18 millimeters. Each of the wires has a diameter of 0.28 millimeters, and is composed of steel which has a carbon content of at least 0.80%, by weight.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire for a passenger car, wherein a carcass layer consists of two layers, cords of nylon 46 fiber are used as the carcass cords of each of these layers, and the cords of one of the layers cross those of the other layer at an angle of from 5.degree. to 40.degree.. A pneumatic tire for a passenger car, wherein a belt cover layer is disposed on a belt layer and cords of nylon 46 fiber is disposed as the cords of the belt cover layer on the belt layer.

Abstract: An open type metal cord has a plurality of cord units each constituted by at least one preformed metal wire member. The wire members within a given cord unit have the same preforming ratio but have a different ratio from that of the wire members within another cord unit. A difference between the largest preforming ratio and the smallest preforming ratio in cord units falls within the range of 0.20 to 0.40. In this case, the maximum preforming ratio possible for the wire members is 1.65 and the minimum preforming ratio possible for the wire members is 1.05. A total number of wire members constituting a metal cord according to the present invention is 3 to 5.

Abstract: Bending and torsional ductility of high tensile reinforcement steel wire or cord, especially for rubber products, such as tires, is improved by taking care that the steel compositions that are currently used for such application, have an extra low sulphur content, i.e. below 0.015%, preferably below 0.010%.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire at least partially reinforced with steel cords. Most of steel filaments of said steel cords comprise iron materials having carbon content of 0.75 to 0.85 percent by weight. Said steel cords have an preferred tensile strength (TS) calculated from the following formula; ##EQU1## wherein W is the weight (g/m) of a steel cord, D is the diameter (mm) of the steel filament and N is the number of steel filaments of a steel cord and said steel cords also have a maintenance ratio of the knot strength of more than 60%.

Abstract: A process for the improvement of the adhesion to rubber or a thermoplastic elastomer of synthetic yarns, cords or fabrics made therefrom by applying thereto an adhesive consisting of an aqueous solution or dispersion of a polyurethane with ionic groups, capped isocyanate groups and groups with a Zerewitinoff-active H atom, followed by drying the product thus treated. The polyurethane corresponds to the structure: ##STR1## wherein X has the meaning of an O or S atom or of an O-, S-, N- or P-containing group with a Zerewitinoff-active H atom or to which prior to reaction with an isocyanate group a Zerewitinoff-active H atom had been attached,R.sub.1 represents the remainder of a capping agent,R.sub.2 represents an at least divalent organic group which remains after removal of isocyanate groups from a polyisocyanate,R.sub.3 represents an at least divalent organic group which remains after removal of --XH groups from an organic compound having a molecular weight of 62 to 2000,R.sub.

Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire comprising a carcass of a radial structure and a belt superimposed about a crown portion of the carcass is disclosed. The belt is composed of at least one open-twisted steel cord layer formed by embedding open-twisted steel cords. Each cord is composed of 4-5 steel filaments and having an elongation of 0.2-0.7% under a load of 5 kg/cord and a twisting pitch of 8-16 mm, in a coating rubber having a 100% modulus of 30-70 kg/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: A process for producing a pneumatic tire having high uniformity with a carcass ply formed of polyester cord, including the steps of: (a) spinning polyester at a tension at the solidifying point of melt polyester between 1.5.times.10.sup.7 and 7.5.times.10.sup.7 dyne/cm.sup.2 ; (b) drawing the polyester into a filament at a draw ration of 2.0 to 3.0; (c) twisting a polyester filament at a twist coefficient of from 800 to 2,500; and then (d) heat treating the filament so that the dimension unstabilizing factor is 8.5 or less. The polyester filament is made of polyester having an ethylene terephthalate component of at least 85 mol % and a high degree of polymerization such that the intrinsic viscosity is at least 0.8, and the ratio of the birefringence of the surface portion to that of the central portion in the polyester filament is from 1.03/1 to 1.15/1; the twist coefficient is represented by T.times..sqroot.

Abstract: A reinforcement assembly comprises from one to three layers of threads, one of which is a central layer having one or more shaped threads, i.e., threads having a center of gravity and a contour in an intersecting plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the thread, the distance from any point on the contour to the center of gravity depending on the position of the point on the contour. The twist pitch of each shaped thread is different from the winding pitch of the shaped thread in the layer in which it is located and if the element comprises three layers, the winding pitch of the outer layer is different from the winding pitch of the subjacent layer. Reinforced articles include such assemblies impregnated with a material, in particular pneumatic tires.

Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire is disclosed, which comprises a toroidal tire body extending from bead portions to a crown portion through sidewall portions, and a reinforcement for the tire body consisting of a carcass composed of at least one cord ply containing polyester fiber cords therein, which cord ply being wound around a bead core embedded in each of the bead portions from the inside of the tire to the outside thereof, and a belt composed of at least two ply layers superimposed around the crown portion of the carcass and containing cords arranged at a relatively small inclination angle with respect to the mid-circumferential plane of the tire, the cords of which being crossed with each other. In this type of the tire, the carcass line of the tire body at a mounted state of the tire on a normal rim under a normal internal pressure depicts such a radial profile in tire section that a ratio of R/R' is within a range of 0.65-0.

Abstract: A steel element for reinforcing a rubber article comprises a brass layer and at least one additional outer film of metal or metal alloy selected from the group containing Fe, Ni, Mn, Cr, Mb, Va, Ti, Zi, Nb, Ta, Hf and W.

Abstract: A radial tire has a combined reinforcement consisting of a belt composed of at least three piled cord layers with steel cords buried in parallel in rubber in which the cords in each of the layers are set at a relatively small angle with respect to a tire equatorial plane and the cords in at least one pair of the adjacent cord layers are intersectingly arranged at an angle from 15.degree. to 30.degree. and a carcass having cords arranged substantially at right angles with respect to the tire equatorial plane. The steel cords buried in the at least one pair of the cord-intersecting cord layers other than the outermost cord layer have Young's modulus of 6,000 to 16,000 kg/mm.sup.2 and a flexural rigidity of 150 to 250 g, and the initial stage elongation (P.L.E.) of the rubberized cords taken out from the tire is not more than 0.2%.

Abstract: A reinforcing cord made of several steel wires includes a metal wrapping wire coiled around steel wires. The hardness of the wrapping wire is substantially less than the hardness of the steel wires. Preferably the wrapping wire is a flat wire whose longer side engages the cord.

Abstract: A steel cord for reinforcing rubber products such as truck tires comprises a plurality of steel wires twisted together to form a multiwire layered cable construction having two or more successive wire layers around a common core. The wires of the outer layer are covered by a rubber adherable coating of, e.g. brass, and the wires (shaded) of the layer inwardly adjacent the surface layer are covered by a corrosion resistant coating, such as zinc or a zinc alloy.

Abstract: A reinforcement cable is formed of an assembly of strands. Each strand is formed of two wires wound around each other in the same direction, with a constant pitch whose length is less than 300 mm. The two wires have linear contact with each other in the form of a helix. These helices have the same direction and the same constant pitch length. The assembly is formed of two strands of the same length of pitch and wound in opposite directions and/or it is formed of two to four strands such that the assembly has the same length of pitch and wound in the same direction as one strand and, with respect to another strand, a different length of pitch and/or wound in an opposite direction.

Abstract: A rubber adherable ferrous substrate for use in reinforcing vulcanizable elastomeric products includes a cold worked steel wire having a brass alloy coating of specified compact structure on its surface. There is provided also a process for covering a steel wire substrate with a compact alloy coating, in particular a thin brass diffusion coating having a specified permeability.

Abstract: A high-durable pneumatic radial tire is disclosed using steel cords in at least one of the carcass and the belt. This steel cord is produced by twisting plural steel filaments each having a tensile strength of not less than 220 kgf/mm.sup.2, whose metallic structure being a fine pearlite structure having an average value of interlamellar distance between cementites of 300-500 .ANG. and an average sectional area of single pearlite crystal grain in filament section of not more than 20 .mu.m.sup.2.

Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire having a high durability is disclosed, which comprises a carcass composed of at least one ply containing polyester fiber cords embedded in rubber. This polyester fiber cord has particular fiber properties and cord properties. Among the cord properties, the elongation under a tension of 2 g/D of the cord after the specific post-cure inflation treatment is not more than 4.5% and the sum of the elongation and heat shrinkage is not more than 8.0%.

Abstract: A tire-reinforcing dip cord composed of nylon 6 and/or nylon 66 fiber is described. The dip cord has (1) a strength at break of at least 8.2 g/d, (2) an elongation of at least 18% under a load of 8 g/d, (3) a gradient not larger than 0.75 in the load-elongation curve immediately before break, and (4) a cord diameter variation ratio (D/D.sub.o) (D=cord diameter under a load of 450 g and D.sub.o =cord diameter under no load) not larger than 0.65. The dip cord is prepared by treating a nylon 6 and/or nylon 66 cord yarn with an adhesive wherein at least one of the following processes (i) and (ii) is employed: (i) the adhesive treatment is carried out under elongation of at least 3%, and (ii) as the adhesive, a liquid mixture of a resorcinol/formaldehyde (R/F) condensate and a rubber latex is used, in which at least 20 wt. % of the condensate has a R/F molar ratio of 1/1.9-1/1.

Abstract: A reinforcing cord for use in radial tires, conveyor belts, hoses or driving belts, includes at least one strand of metal wires twisted along the longitudinal axis of the strand. Each metal wire has a substantially rectangular cross-section defining two opposite broad sides. The wires in the strand engage one another along their broad sides and preferably are wrapped around by a wrapping wire.

Abstract: A metal cord used as a reinforcement for rubber products. The cord includes a strand core composed of a plurality of metal wires stranded with each other. A plurality of metal wires are stranded around the strand core, forming a strand layer. The number of the metal wires which form the strand layer is less than 4 plus the number of the metal wires which form the strand core, and each of the metal wires which form both the strand core and layer has substantially the same diameter.

Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire is disclosed, which comprises steel cords having a two or three layer construction represented by a designation of l+m or l+m+n as a tire reinforcement, wherein two layers at a center side of a transverse section in the steel cord have the same twisting direction but different twisting pitches. In this steel cord, m filaments constituting an outer layer are arranged so as to enter into an inside of a circumscribed circle enveloping l filaments of an inner layer at a non-contact region above a predetermined value and have a form ratio of 90-110%.

Abstract: A rubber article, such as a vehicle tire, reinforced with steel filaments in the form of cables, cords or wefts. The corrosion speed of the steel is reduced by using rubber having a specific electrical resistance of at least 5.times.107 Ohm centimeter.