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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322220 | Apparatus for manufacturing trapezoidal wire using two-set shaping rollers An apparatus for manufacturing a trapezoidal wire using two-set shaping rollers has a body rotating about a central axis at a predetermined speed, a plurality of first shaping roller sets installed along an outer circumference of the body, each first shaping roller ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7230180 | Multi-strand steel cable A multi-strand steel cable includes steel strands jacketed with plastic fibers, where the plastic fiber jacketing is melted onto the steel strands by a thermal treatment. The steel cable has a core formed by an unjacketed steel strand, and the core is surrounded by ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7197809 | Method for fabricating an helical stranded cable, particularly for mechanical motion transmission, and cable produced by that method A method for fabricating a stranded cable particularly for mechanical motion transmission, which cable is composed of multiple strands or wires, helically wound around a common longitudinal axis, including the steps of: a—winding... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7036298 | Rope for elevator and method for manufacturing the rope An elevator rope includes: an inner layer rope; an inner layer covering body of resin and covering the outer periphery of the inner layer rope; an outer layer located in the outer periphery of the inner layer covering body; and an outer layer covering body of a high... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6964625 | Game ball lacing A game ball including a casing and a lacing. The casing has a laced region. The lacing is coupled to the laced region of the casing. The lacing has an exposed surface comprised of an outer material that is compressible, resilient, and tactile. The outer material has... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6412263 | Reinforcing steel cord for rubber products, method and device for producing such steel cords A reinforcing steel cord for rubber products, such as steel belted radial tires or conveyor belts, is disclosed. This steel cord is improved in rubber penetration and ageing adhesive force relative to the rubber material. The steel cord is formed by twist... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6360522 | Rope for conveying systems A filler element is located between each adjacent pair of outer strands of a wire rope and interlocks with the adjacent strands. The filler elements provide the rope with substantially smooth outer surface reducing vibration of the rope passing over a pul... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6354068 | Steel cords for reinforcement of rubber articles pneumatic tire process for producing steel cord and tubular-type twisting machine therefor A steel cord comprises a core of three or more filaments bundled without twisting and a sheath of at least one layer comprised of plural filaments wound around the core, wherein all core filaments are arranged in a given rectangle at any section in its lo... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6334293 | Steel cord with polymer core The invention relates to a composite cord (10) for reinforcement of elastomers comprising a core (12) of a high polymer material, a first layer of steel filaments (14) twisted around said core and a second layer of steel filaments (16) twisted around said... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6308508 | Steel cord for reinforcement of a radial tire and a radial tire employing the same A steel cord for reinforcement of a radial tire and a radial tire employing the same are disclosed. The steel cord is made of more than three steel filaments of which one or two filaments are regularly twisted, the other filaments are open-twisted and eac... | 10/30/2001 |
| 5946898 | Wire rope having an independent wire rope core A wire rope including a core rope having a number of strands each made of a number of wires, and a number of outer strands closed on the core rope. Each strand of the core rope has a contact section where two or more wires of the strand of the core rope c... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5738466 | Ribbed flexible member for casting into an anchorage medium A ribbed flexible member for casting into an anchorage medium includes a central strand with outer wires extending helically about the strand. Parts of the exposed surfaces of some of the outer wires are indented in a non-axial direction, those parts bein... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5711143 | Overhead cable and low sag, low wind load cable An overhead cable provided with a plurality of segment strands of a sector-shaped cross-section twisted at the outermost layer and having grooves of a substantially arc-shaped cross-section at the surface at the adjoining portions of the segment strands. ... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5688597 | Tire core A tire cord which is improved in rubber penetration. The cord has at least four filaments twisted together so as to form a core and a sheath surrounding the core. The filaments change place repeatedly along the longitudinal direction of the cord such that... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5449861 | Wire for press-connecting terminal and method of producing the conductive wire The present invention provides a wire for a press-connecting terminal which has a high flexibility, and achieves a high reliability for a connection portion at the time of press-connection, and also provides a method of producing a conductor of such a wir... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5418333 | Stranded elliptical cable and method for optimizing manufacture thereof A method of manufacture and a resultant cable structure of elliptical stranded cable which optimizes the use of existing conventional stranding machines. In accordance with the present invention, one or more layers of shaped, non-circular, wires are inter... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5307615 | Flexible tension member Flexible tension member includes a helical bundle of substantially identical elongate elements. Each element inside the bundle is in contact with six adjacent elements, and the lay length of the helical bundle is at least 30 times its diameter. Each eleme... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5260516 | Concentric compressed unilay stranded conductors Concentric Compressed Unilay Stranded Conductors are formed of certain combinations of compressed wires, such as 1+7+12, 1+6+11 or 1+7+12+17, which have nominally equal diameters. The combinations of conductors or wires are selected so that the number of ... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5171942 | Oval shaped overhead conductor and method for making same An oval or elliptical shaped overhead conductor that is twisted along its length to provide a continuously varying profile to the wind. A single core is comprised of a circular center wire wrapped by circular wires and the core is surrounded or encased by... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5099902 | Offset wound helical bead for pneumatic tires A pneumatic tire bead is formed into a spiral coil consisting of a plurality of convolutions or turns of wire. The wire may be round, square, oval or hexagonal in cross section. A crimp or offset bend is made in each of the convolutions a distance of one ... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4915490 | Optical fibre cable with crush-resistant tube A crush-resistant tube for a plastics packaged optical fibre (1, 2) is formed by helically stranding together five or more non-circular cross-section wires (3) which are created from circular cross-section wires during the stranding operation.... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4878343 | Reinforcing rope made of at least two different materials A composite reinforcing rope is made of a cylindrical core of twisted filaments of aromatic polyamides around which a plurality of steel wires of a rectangular configuration are coiled. The steel wires are wound side-by-side in one layer. Each wire is twi... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4843696 | Method and apparatus for forming a stranded conductor A method and apparatus for the high speed reshaping of round wire as it exits a drawing machine, but prior to its being collected on a bobbin or a stempack. The shape imparted to individual wires is such that as the preshaped wires are applied to a core b... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4809492 | Torsionally balanced wire rope or cable The twistless and/or weakly twisted wire rope or cable with the many strand many layer structure comprises a core rope and a cover layer stranded on the core rope in an opposite stranding direction. The core rope is made exclusively from substantially cir... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4782196 | Composite strand for transmitting electric or optical signals A support strand is formed of a non-extensible thread wound around an elastic thread in order to restrain the extension of the non-extensible thread within such a limit that the coil of the wound, non-extensible thread can follow movement of the elastic t... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4778246 | High tensile strength compacted towing cable with signal transmission element and method of making the same A high tensile strength transmission cable having a plurality of main compacted strands. The strands surround, and are adjacent to, an uncompacted and moveable core which may form or contain one or more transmission elements. A method for making such a hi... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4763466 | Steel cord for radial tire 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 u... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4709544 | Reinforcement assembly having a layer comprising a shaped thread: articles comprising such assemblies 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 di... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4679387 | Reinforcing cord with wrapping wire 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... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4651513 | Layered steel cord 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 la... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4550559 | Cables and process for forming cables A cable comprises at least one layer of strands (10) with each strand covered with an individual sheath (20) of rubber or plastics material. The sheaths are so shaped (16, 17, 18) that the sheaths of adjacent strands interlock. This provides a layer in wh... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4529837 | Multistrand superconductor cable Improved multistrand Rutherford-type superconductor cable is produced by using strands which are preformed, prior to being wound into the cable, so that each strand has a variable cross section, with successive portions having a substantially round cross ... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4509319 | Wire rope A wire rope which includes a filler material disposed in the interstices between a core rope and respective outer strands and/or in the gaps between individual outer strands wherein the filler element is placed independently in the respective interstices ... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4473995 | Concentric compressed double twist stranded cable A process for the manufacture of concentric compressed or compacted stranded conductors at high speed on double-twist bunching machinery while eliminating loose strand, strand crossovers, and spiral propensity of the finished product; and the product ther... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4454708 | Wire rope and method of making same A wire rope, particularly a non-twistable wire rope, wherein an annulus of outer strands surrounds a wire rope center with a central strand and one or more annuli of neighboring strands surrounding the central strand. The wires of the strands in the cente... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4436132 | Bead rings for tires In order to obtain a bead ring for tires which is both lighter and stronger than the known bead rings, the bead ring is formed of an annular core, for example of steel, surrounded by at least one layer formed of at least one strand of continuous nonmetall... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4376458 | Bead rings of pneumatic tires The properties of a composite bead ring for tires are improved by interposing an annular trifurcated element tangentially of the three unitary bead ring components.... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4349063 | Pneumatic radial tires A pneumatic radial tire is disclosed. This tire is reinforced with steel cords, each of which has such a flat or elliptic section that two or three strands, each strand being produced by twisting plural filaments, are arranged in parallel with each other ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4338772 | Musical instrument string modifying device Apparatus for modifying a musical instrument string as it is being fabricated by winding a fine metal wire helically about a core, the apparatus comprising a first roller having a fixed axis and a second roller mounted on a moveable arm for moving the sec... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4332131 | Apparatus and process of manufacturing a metal cord A compact single-strand cord consisting of at least nine single wires of the same diameter twisted together in the same direction and with the same pitch, characterized in that, in cross-section, the cord has the shape of a compact stack of polygonal, pre... | 06/01/1982 |
