Method for manufacturing belt-shaped cord member

A method for manufacturing a belt-shaped cord member by cutting a rubber topped fabric produced by covering a topping rubber on an interdigitated fabric formed by interweaving non-conductive warp textile cords and non-conductive wefts to a predetermined width, comprising;

• an interdigitated fabric forming step of arranging a cord having conductivity for every predetermined number of the non-conductive warp textile cords which is then interwoven with the non-conductive wefts to form an interdigitated fabric wherein all the wefts are non-conductive,
• a rubber topped fabric producing step of topping rubber on the front and back surfaces of the interdigitated fabric to produce the rubber topped fabric, and
• a cutting step of cutting the produced rubber topped fabric by every predetermined number of the textile cords,
• wherein in the cutting step, the rubber topped fabric is cut along the textile cord in which a cord having conductivity is arranged, after the position of the textile cords is specified by energizing the rubber topped fabric.