Bias tooth fabric and toothed power transmission belt
AssigneeThe Gates Corporation
InventorsMin Gao, Nigel Peter Blunsden, Guogong Chen, Shawn Xiang Wu, Cynthia Decker
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Abstract
A cover fabric for a power transmission belt, the fabric woven from warp yarns and weft yarns; the warp yarns and weft yarns each plied from a first filament yarn and a second filament yarn; the first filament yarn comprising higher tensile strength fibers than the second filament yarn; and the fabric woven in a modified twill pattern. A toothed belt with the cover fabric on the teeth, oriented on a bias, with the fabric having a bias angle less than 90°.
Claims18
A cover fabric for a power transmission belt, said fabric woven from warp yarns and weft yarns;
- said warp yarns and weft yarns each plied from a first filament yarn and a second filament yarn;
- said first filament yarn comprising higher tensile strength fibers than said second filament yarn;
- and said fabric woven in a modified twill pattern.
A toothed power transmission belt comprising a bias fabric covering said teeth;
- wherein said bias fabric is woven from nonstretchable warp yarns and weft yarns oriented at a bias angle of less than 80°;
- said warp yarns and weft yarns each plied from a first filament yarn and a second filament yarn;
- said first filament yarn having a higher tensile strength than said second filament yarn;
- and said fabric woven in a modified twill pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.