A light weight cable bead core (30) is described having an inner core (33) made of a metal wire (34) with an outer sheath (35) of steel cord wires (36). Each cord (36) is made of a plurality of filaments (37). The bead core (30) is particularly suited for ...

A bead core (11) is formed by spirally winding a single cord (13) and stacking spiral windings (15) to each other, wherein a winding start end (M) of the single cord (13) is shifted from an axially outermost or innermost position of a radially innermost fi...