TIRE BEAD WITH LOCKED END WIRE AND ITS METHOD OF MANUFACTURE

摘要

The present invention provides a method of making a tire bead core (40) by winding a length of wire into a coil with at least one radially outermost layer (30) having a side-by-side relationship where each successive winding of the wire is placed adjacent to the previous winding except for the final two windings (18,19) where the wire of the next to last winding (18) is wound with a uniform gap (43) relative to the previous winding (17) and where the final winding (19) of the wire and its cut end (20) cross over the top of the next to last winding (18) and are pressed into the gap (43) and constrained by the wire of the two previous windings (17, 18).