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Method of manufacturing fatigue resistant cables
Assignee: Bekaert NV SA
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Filing: 1984-09-26
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Granted: 1986-09-23
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Expires: 2004-09-26
Abstract
Abstract In order to improve the fatigue resistance of a cable, particularly a rubber adherable cable for reinforcing rubber articles such as vehicle tires, substantially uniformly distributed residual compressive stress is induced in substantially the complete peripheral zone of the wires making up the cable. The stress may be induced by submitting lengths of the cable to a number of elementary bending-unbending operations in considerably different planes and simultaneously tensioning the cable.
Inventors
- 👤 Marc De Bondt
- 👤 Urbain D'Haene
- 👤 Paul Dambre
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 01:52
CPC Classifications
D; D07; D07B; D07B1/00; D07B1/06; D07B1/0606; D07B1/062; D07B1/0626; D07B5/00; D07B5/12; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S148/00; Y10S148/902; Y10S57/00; Y10S57/902
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
138 words
A process of treatment of a metallic cable into a cable comprising a number of wires with smooth surface having substantially their complete peripheral zone in a state of substantially uniformly distributed residual compressive stress, said process comprising providing a cable containing a plurality of wires and submitting said cable to a number of elementary bending-unbending operations, at least two of such operations being in considerably different planes, each elementary operation comprising bending the cable under simultaneous tensile stress into a curvature to an extent that the cross-section of a number of wires shows, consecutively in the direction towards the center of curvature, a zone of plastic elongation, a zone of elastic elongation, and a zone of substantially elastic compression, and then taking away the bending force producing said bending to form a cable with the said zones.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
138 words
A process of treatment of a metallic cable into a cable comprising a number of wires with smooth surface having substantially their complete peripheral zone in a state of substantially uniformly distributed residual compressive stress, said process comprising providing a cable containing a plurality of wires and submitting said cable to a number of elementary bending-unbending operations, at least two of such operations being in considerably different planes, each elementary operation comprising bending the cable under simultaneous tensile stress into a curvature to an extent that the cross-section of a number of wires shows, consecutively in the direction towards the center of curvature, a zone of plastic elongation, a zone of elastic elongation, and a zone of substantially elastic compression, and then taking away the bending force producing said bending to form a cable with the said zones.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
38 words
A process according to claim 1 in which said number of elementary bending-unbending operations in a same plane, but in alternating opposite directions, are followed by a series of similar alternating bending-unbending operations in another considerably different plane.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
28 words
A process according to claim 1 in which the cable is treated in a continuous way, the cable passing through an incurved guiding path imparting the bending-unbending operations.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
26 words
A process accoding to claim 3 in which the incurved guiding path is in the form of a number of guiding rollers aligned along said path.
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