Patent ID: 8281562

Claim:
A metal/rubber composite comprising at least one metal cable and a diene rubber composition, usable for anchoring a carcass reinforcement in a tire bead, characterized by the following features: the rubber composition has, in the vulcanized state, a secant tensile modulus, at 10% elongation, which is greater than 20 MPa; the metal cable is a cable having two layers of construction M+N comprising an inner layer C 1 of M wires of diameter d 1 wound together in a helix at a pitch p 1 , this layer C 1 itself being surrounded by an outer layer C 2 of N wires of diameter d 2 wound together in a helix at a pitch p 2 , said cable furthermore having the following characteristics (d 1 , d 2 , p 1 and p 2 in mm): 2≦M≦4 M+ 3 ≦N≦M+ 7 0.25<d 1 <0.40; 0.25<d 2 <0.40; 3.5<p 1 <7<p 2 <14.