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Wire rope and method of making same

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6506996

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 center do not intersect each other. The entire center or at least some of its strands are densified prior to or during application of the outer strands. Alternatively, or in addition to such densification, at least some strands of the center are assembled of wires having an other than circular outline to thereby reduce the combined cross-sectional area of voids in the center.

Assignee:
Drahtsteilwerk Saar GmbH (Germany, Federal Republic of)
Patent Number(s):
US 4454708
OSTI ID:
6506996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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