EP0627521B1 - Behandlung eines Stahlseils - Google Patents

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EP0627521B1
EP0627521B1 EP19940200999 EP94200999A EP0627521B1 EP 0627521 B1 EP0627521 B1 EP 0627521B1 EP 19940200999 EP19940200999 EP 19940200999 EP 94200999 A EP94200999 A EP 94200999A EP 0627521 B1 EP0627521 B1 EP 0627521B1
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Johan De Waegenaere
Luc Sabbe
Frans Van Giel
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D07—ROPES; CABLES OTHER THAN ELECTRIC
    • D07B—ROPES OR CABLES IN GENERAL
    • D07B3/00—General-purpose machines or apparatus for producing twisted ropes or cables from component strands of the same or different material
    • D07B3/08—General-purpose machines or apparatus for producing twisted ropes or cables from component strands of the same or different material in which the take-up reel rotates about the axis of the rope or cable or in which a guide member rotates about the axis of the rope or cable to guide the rope or cable on the take-up reel in fixed position and the supply reels are fixed in position
    • D07B3/10—General-purpose machines or apparatus for producing twisted ropes or cables from component strands of the same or different material in which the take-up reel rotates about the axis of the rope or cable or in which a guide member rotates about the axis of the rope or cable to guide the rope or cable on the take-up reel in fixed position and the supply reels are fixed in position with provision for imparting more than one complete twist to the ropes or cables for each revolution of the take-up reel or of the guide member
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D07—ROPES; CABLES OTHER THAN ELECTRIC
    • D07B—ROPES OR CABLES IN GENERAL
    • D07B7/00—Details of, or auxiliary devices incorporated in, rope- or cable-making machines; Auxiliary apparatus associated with such machines
    • D07B7/02—Machine details; Auxiliary devices
    • D07B7/022—Measuring or adjusting the lay or torque in the rope
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D07—ROPES; CABLES OTHER THAN ELECTRIC
    • D07B—ROPES OR CABLES IN GENERAL
    • D07B2207/00—Rope or cable making machines
    • D07B2207/20—Type of machine
    • D07B2207/204—Double twist winding
    • D07B2207/206—Double twist winding with means for providing less than double twist, e.g. counter rotating means
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D07—ROPES; CABLES OTHER THAN ELECTRIC
    • D07B—ROPES OR CABLES IN GENERAL
    • D07B2207/00—Rope or cable making machines
    • D07B2207/40—Machine components
    • D07B2207/4072—Means for mechanically reducing serpentining or mechanically killing of rope

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  • the present invention relates to a process of treatment of a steel cord adapted for the reinforcement of rubber products, wherein the steel cord comprises steel filaments (see e.g. GB-A- 2 028 393).
  • Steel cords are widely known and used for the reinforcement of rubber products such as tyres, conveyor belts, timing belts and hoses.
  • the steel cords In order to fulfill their reinforcement function in a proper way, the steel cords must have a high tensile strength, a sufficient resistance to compression once embedded in rubber, a good fatigue and corrosion resistance, a sufficient adhesion to rubber and a high impact resistance.
  • Both the first and second properties are supposed to be fulfilled between narrow specified limits. It is a difficult task, if not a rather impossible one, for a cord manufacturer to meet all these requirements. This task is thwarted by the fact that, during the entire process of manufacturing of a steel cord, the result of measures taken to meet one property is wholly or partially nullified by measures taken in order to meet another property in the downstream part of the process. The consequence is that a compromise must be sought or that one or more properties must be sacrified in favour of the other properties.
  • part of the tensile strength of the steel filaments gets lost during the subsequent twisting process.
  • part of the degree of preforming may be lost during the downstream false twisting or during the downstream straightening.
  • a process of treatment of a steel cord adapted for the reinforcement of rubber products.
  • the steel cord comprises steel filaments which have been twisted to a final twist pitch.
  • the process comprises
  • the terms 'process of treatment of a steel cord' do not necessarily mean that the process can only be carried out as a so-called post-treatment on an already finished steel cord.
  • the terms 'process of treatment of a steel cord' also include processes of manufacturing a steel cord whereby the process comprises the above mentioned steps (i) to (iv) carried out on a set of steel filaments which have just been twisted or cabled in an upstream step.
  • Overtwisting the steel cord means twisting the steel cord until a twist pitch which is smaller than the twist pitch before overtwisting.
  • Plastically deforming the steel filaments by overtwisting the steel cord means that the degree of overtwisting is such that the steel filaments are deformed beyond their elastical limit.
  • Plastically deforming the steel filaments by over-twisting may decrease the radius of curvature of the steel filaments in a controllable way. The higher the degree of overtwisting in the plastical region, the smaller the radius of curvature.
  • a small radius of curvature, if small enough, corresponds to an open cord structure, which allows rubber penetration even when the cord is put under a tensile tension of about twenty to fifty Newton. This openness at tensile torsions between twenty and fifty Newton may be quantified by a P.L.E.-value in the case of single-strand constructions of the type 1xn.
  • P.L.E. means part load elongation and is the elongation of the cord at a predetermined tensile tension between twenty and fifty Newton.
  • the degree of plastical deformation of the steel filaments determines to a large extent the total elongation at fracture of the steel cord.
  • the subsequent and downstream steps (iii) and (iv) are done in order to bring the number of residual torsions to zero or to a predetermined value.
  • the advantage of the present invention is that during the steps (iii) and (iv) the steel cord is not stretched in such a way that the small radius of curvature of the steel filaments is increased again.
  • the untwisting tension is lower than 25 Newton, preferably lower than 20 Newton or 15 Newton, e.g. about 10 Newton.
  • the steel cord may be a high-elongation cord.
  • a cord comprises two to seven strands.
  • Each strand comprises two to seven steel filaments with a filament diameter between 0.10 mm and 0.35 mm.
  • the twisting direction of the filaments in a strand is equal to the twisting direction of the strands in the high-elongation cord.
  • the elongation at break of a high-elongation cord conveniently ranges from 5 to 10 %.
  • steps (i) and (ii) may be done by means of a first false twister.
  • the rotational speed of the overtwister determines the degree of overtwisting, and consequently also the degree of plastically deforming the steel filaments.
  • Steps (iii) and (iv) may be done by means of a second false twister.
  • the rotational speed of the second false twister is conveniently smaller than the rotational speed of the first false twister.
  • the process may include further steps of straightening the steel cord and/or of rolling the steel cord.
  • an apparatus for carrying out a treatment of a steel cord comprises following successive units :
  • the overtwisting means is a first false twister, the pull-though means a capstan, and the untwisting means a second false twister.
  • three steel filaments 2 are drawn from three bobbins 4 and are led to a double twister via a guiding pulley 6 where the filaments receive a first torsion.
  • the twisted steel filaments 2 are further guided by means of a flyer 8 to a reversing pulley 10 where the filaments receive a second torsion.
  • the steel cord 12 After the reversing pulley 10 the steel cord 12 has already obtained its final twist pitch.
  • the steel cord 12 passes through a first false twister 14 which overtwists the steel cord until a twist pitch which is smaller than the final twist pitch and which subsequently untwists the steel cord until its final twist pitch.
  • the false twister 14 may comprise a pair of pulleys 16, 18 around which the steel cord 12 may be wrapped a number of times.
  • False twisters are known as such in the art.
  • US-A-3,771,304 describes a false twister functioning as an overtwister.
  • the twist pitch of the steel cord is decreased, i.e. the radius of curvature of the composing steel filaments 2 is decreased. If the speed of the false twister 14 is high enough with respect to the pull through speed of the steel cord 12, the steel filaments 2 are plastically deformed.
  • a capstan 20 functions as a drive unit and draws the steel cord 12 through the upstream parts of the apparatus.
  • the tension upstream the capstan 20 is in the range 40 to 70 Newton, the tension downstream the capstan 20 is below half the tension upstream the capstan 20, and may be 10 to 20 Newton.
  • a second false twister 22 rotates in the opposite sense as the first false twister 14 and partially untwists the steel cord 12 further to a twist pitch greater than the final twist and subsequently twists again the steel cord to its final twist pitch. This is done in order to reduce or to control the residual torsions.
  • the untwisting tension is low. In fact, the untwisting tension needs only to be high enough to overcome the friction in the second false twister 22 and in the winding unit 24. This low tension avoids that the small radius of curvature of the plastically deformed steel filaments gets lost due to stretching.
  • the first false twister 14 functions as a controller of the openness, in the case of single-strand steel cords of the 1xn-type and, in the case of a high-elongation cord, as a controller of the elongation, while the second false twister 22 functions as a controller of the degree of residual torsions. Both function independently of each other thanks to the low tension level under which the second false twister is operating.
  • FIGURE 2 shows a schematic configuration of another embodiment of the present invention.
  • four steel filaments 2 are drawn from the supply bobbins 4 and are guided to a false twister 14 which is a 'first' false twister in the sense as described hereabove.
  • False twister 14 rotates with a rotational speed which is higher than twice the rotational speed of flyer 8 (the rotational speed of flyer 8 determines the final twist pitch). In this way, the steel cord 12 is overtwisted.
  • Capstan 20 draws the steel cord 12 through the upstream parts of the apparatus.
  • the overtwisting tension upstream the capstan 20 is in the range 40 to 70 Newton
  • the tension down-stream the capstan 20 is below half the overtwisting tension, and may be in the range of 10 to 20 Newton.
  • the steel cord 12 is further led to still another false twister 22 which is a 'second' false twister in the sense as described hereabove. False twister 22 rotates in the same sense as false twister 14 but at a speed which is lower than the speed of false twister 14 and lower than twice the rotational speed of flyer 8. The result is that the steel cord 12 is partially untwisted.
  • the steel cord 12 is then led over a guiding pulley 6, a flyer 8, a reversing pulley 10, a straightener 26, a roller 28 and a capstan 30 to a winding up unit 24.
  • the tension created by the capstan 28 needs only be high enough to compensate for the friction exercised by the parts of the apparatus which are downstream the first capstan 20 and is substantially lower than the tension created by the first capstan 20. Care must be exercised that the plastic deformation of the steel filaments 12 is not destroyed during the other downstream treatments such as rolling and/or straightening.
  • false twister 14 functions as a controller of the openness of the steel cord, in the case of single-strand construction of the type 1xn and, in the case of a high-elongation cord as a controller of the elongation, whereas false twister 22 functions as a controller of the residual torsions of the cord.

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  1. Verfahren zur Behandlung eines Stahlseils (12), welches zur Verstärkung von Gummiprodukten geeignet ist, wobei das Stahlseil Stahldrähte (2) umfaßt, welche auf eine End-Verzwirnungsganghöhe verzwirnt worden sind,
    wobei das Verfahren umfaßt
    - einen Schritt (i) zum plastischen Verformen der Stahldrähte durch Überzwirnen des Stahlseils bis zu einer Verzwirnungsganghöhe, welche kleiner ist als die EndVerzwirnungsganghöhe,
    - ein Schritt (ii) zum Entzwirnen des Stahlseils bis zu der End-Verzwirnungsganghöhe,
    - einen Schritt (iii) zum weiteren Entzwirnen des Stahlseils bis zu einer Verzwirnungsganghöhe, welche größer ist als die End-Verzwirnungsganghöhe,
    - einen Schritt (iv) zum erneuten Verzwirnen des Stahlseils auf seine End-Verzwirnungsganghöhe,
    wobei die Schritte (i) und (ii) unter einer ersten Spannung durchgeführt werden und die Schritte (iii) und (iv) unter einer zweiten Spannung durchgeführt werden, wobei die zweite Spannung kleiner ist als die Hälfte der ersten Spannung.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, worin das Stahlseil (12) zwei bis fünf Stahldrähte (2) umfaßt, welche einen Drahtdurchmesser zwischen 0,10 mm und 0,40 mm aufweisen.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 2, worin die zweite Spannung kleiner als 25 Newton ist.
  4. Verfahren nach Anspruch 2, worin das Ausmaß des Überzwirnens in dem Schritt (i) zum Bestimmen der End-Teillastdehnung des Stahlseils (12) eingestellt wird.
  5. Verfahren nach Anspruch 2, worin das Ausmaß des weiteren Entzwirnens in dem Schritt (iii) zum Bestimmen der Endzahl der Resttorsionen in dem Stahlseil (12) eingestellt wird.
  6. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, worin das Stahlseil (12) ein Seil mit hoher Dehnung ist, umfassend zwei bis sieben Stränge, wobei jeder Strang zwei bis sieben Drähte (2) mit einem Drahtdurchmesser zwischen 0,10 und 0,35 mm umfaßt.
  7. Verfahren nach Anspruch 6, worin das Ausmaß des Überzwirnens in dem Schritt (i) zum Bestimmen der Enddehnung des Stahlseils (12) eingestellt wird.
  8. Verfahren nach Anspruch 6, worin das Ausmaß des weiteren Entzwirnens in dem Schritt (iii) zum Bestimmen der Endzahl an Resttorsionen des Stahl seils (12) eingestellt wird.
  9. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, worin die Schritte (i) und (ii) vermittels eines ersten Falschzwirnens (14) durchgeführt werden.
  10. Verfahren nach Anspruch 9, worin die Schritte (iii) und (iv) vermittels eines zweiten Falschzwirnens (22) durchgeführt werden.
  11. Verfahren nach Anspruch 10, worin der zweite Falschzwirner (22) sich in der anderen Richtung dreht als der erste Falschzwirner (14).
  12. Verfahren nach Anspruch 10, worin der zweite Falschzwirner (22) sich in der gleichen Richtung dreht wie der erste Falschzwirner (14).
  13. Verfahren nach Anspruch 9, worin die Umdrehungsgeschwindigkeit des zweiten Falschzwirners (22) kleiner ist als die Umdrehungsgeschwindigkeit des ersten Falschzwirners (14).
  14. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, worin das Verfahren einen weiteren Schritt zum Gerademachen des Stahl seils (12) umfaßt.
  15. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, worin das Verfahren einen weiteren Schritt zum Aufrollen des Stahl seils (12) umfaßt.
  16. Einrichtung zum Durchführen einer Behandlung eines Stahl seils (12), wobei die Einrichtung als aufeinanderfolgende Einheiten umfaßt :
    - (i) ein Überzwirnungsmittel,
    - (ii) ein Durchziehmittel,
    - (iii) ein Entzwirnungsmittel.
  17. Einrichtung nach Anspruch 16, worin das Überzwirnungsmittel ein erster Falschzwirner (14) ist, das Durchziehmittel ein Kapstan (20) ist und das Entzwirnungsmittel ein zweiter Falschzwirner (22) ist.
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