The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

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Donald E Baker

John R Thiele

Gary L Bowen

Dennis J Garbis

Upper and lower rollers have grooves for a bead ring having a clamp area portion produced by a bead winding machine. The bead ring is placed in the groove of the lower roller with the beginning of the clamp area portion in position for pressing by lowering of the upper roller so that the bead ring is engaged by the groove in the upper roller. The rollers are oscillated between the pressing position at the beginning of the clamp area and the end of the clamp area to roll the top, bottom and sides of the clamp area portion during the movement of the bead ring. The pressure on the bead ring is released by raising the upper roller at the initial pressing position at the beginning of the clamp area so that the bead ring may be removed with the same orientation it had when it was placed in the groove.

Method for rolling bead rings

Apparatus for rolling bead rings

A cable stripping tool for the stripping of sheathing from multi-conductor ribbon cable of various widths includes a blade mounted for the simultaneous slitting of the two longitudinal edges of the cable sheathing without damage to the enclosed conductors. A guide element projects forward from the blade to direct the blade into the cable between the sheathing and the enclosed conductors. In a particular embodiment, the blade has two cutting edges mounted at a 60 degree angle to each other to provide a self-aligning feature.

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Mesa, AZ, United States of America

Donald E Baker