High tenacity rayon yarn, a specific DuPont development which was made available to the entire industry without charge as a contribution to the national security in WWII was introduced in 1936 under the trademark Cordura. The yarn was brought...
Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn for tire cord goes on a creel from which the yarn is run to a beam. High tenacity rayon, which was first developed by E.I du Pont Nemours & Company, is manufactured at DuPont plant in Richmond, Virginia.
Twenty thousand yards in 176 ends of Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn are slashed into shipping beams at the Richmond, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company for the warp in tire cord. High tenacity rayon was first developed by the...
Twenty thousand yards in 176 ends of Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn are slashed into shipping beams at the Richmond, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company for the warp in tire cord. High tenacity rayon was first developed by the...
Like the paths of tracer bullets, Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn for tire cord races in a picturesque pattern from a battery of creels into a beaming machine. High tenacity rayon which was first developed by E.I du Pont Nemours & Company is...
Twenty thousand yards in 176 ends of Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn are slashed into shipping beams at the Richmond, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company for the warp in tire cord. High tenacity rayon was first developed by the...
Twenty thousand yards in 176 ends of Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn are slashed into shipping beams at the Richmond, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company for the warp in tire cord. High tenacity rayon was first developed by the...
Just a few of the many types of yarn coned at rayon plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. In the front row, left to right, are cones of 1,100 denier Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn for tire cord, weighing four pounds; 50 denier bright...
A new end of Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn is tied into the warp beamer at the Richmond, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company, originator of this type of yarn.
Cord tension is meticulously checked prior to application of adhesive which further increases tenacity in $96,000 hot stretching unit. Operation is one of many controls of tension in processing tire cord. Equipment is part of facilities for study...
The versatility of rayon is better understood after a glance at this conveyor belt carrying coal deep in a West Virginia mine. Cordura high tenacity rayon, developed by DuPont, has found its way into auto, track tires, conveyor belts in coal mines,...
