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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1989
Filed:
May. 26, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yoshifumi Nishimura, Hyogo, JP;
Yoshio Yoshimura, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25D / ; C25D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204 28 ; 72 47 ; 204 34 ; 204 371 ;
Abstract
A process for producing a metal wire for use as a reinforcement of rubber products, in which the step of drawing a steel wire is preceded by a preliminary treatment that includes the step of smoothing the surface of the steel wire by electropolishing and the step of forming on the smoothed surface of the steel wire a coating of any one metal selected from the group consisting of copper, zinc, a copper-zinc binary alloy, and a ternary alloy which is composed of copper, zinc and third element selected from among nickel, cobalt, tin and iron.