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How to make a Basketball!

Natural Resources

Inside

It consists of a bladder kinda like a balloon and it holds air.

Natural Resources

Synthetic rubber, Rubber, leather

Outside

Raw Materials

Raw Materials

1

The bladder is made of butyl rubber

2

the carcass consists of threads of nylon or polyester.

3

Preprinted decals are used to label the ball, or foil is used to imprint label information.

Steps

The making of a basketball begins with the interior bladder Black butyl rubber in bulk form is melted in the hopper of a press that feeds it out in a continuous sheet. 2 The sheets to an assembly line where the air tube is inserted by hand. 3 The odd-shaped bladder is taken to a vulcanizing machine, the rubber is heated under pressure to give the basketball shape. Then In the vulcanizer, the bladder is inflated.

Steps

Steps

Steps

The bladders that withstand the 24-hour inflation test are conveyed from the holding chamber to the twining or winding department. They make this journey suspended from a conveyor system by their air tubes. Machines loaded with spools of either polyester or nylon thread or string wrap multiple strands at a time around each bladder.The irregularly shaped bladders now begin to take on a better,

Labour and Capital

Labour and Capital

Labour: Machine operators and factory workers.

Capital: Factories like that make basketballs include Spalding, Wilson, Nike, Adidas, Baden Sports, Dunlop, Kipsta, Mikasa, Mitre, Puma.

Info and Management

Info and Management

First basketball: Naismith called on A.G. Spalding & Bros. to come up with a ball specifically for the game of basketball in 1894, the NBA website says. The company created a leather ball held together with laces and weighing in at fewer than 20 oz. The first basketball had a circumference of 32 inches, which was four inches bigger than a soccer ball.

Companies should make durable and versatile basketballs that can go from blacktop games to indoor courts, So they sell better

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