Fiber-reinforced rubber article and process for producing the same

摘要

Disclosed is a process of producing a fiber-reinforced rubber article having excellent mechanical strength and modulus of elasticity, and exhibiting rubber-like elasticity, by providing a rubber composition from a vulcanizable rubber material, a vulcanizing agent and 1,2-polybutadiene staple fibers in an amount of 1 to 20 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the rubber material, shaping and vulcanizing the rubber composition to provide a shaped, vulcanized article in which surface portions of said 1,2-polybutadiene staple fibers are vulcanized and cross-linked to the vulcanized rubber material matrix.