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US 4,054,952 AGranted
Belt assembly
AssigneeThe Kendall Company
InventorRoger T. Swallow
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Abstract
A belt assembly comprising, a housing having an elongated tunnel, and an elongated belt passing through the housing tunnel. The housing and belt have cooperating surface restraining means interengaging in the housing tunnel and providing substantial restraint against movement of the belt through the housing tunnel, with the surface means permitting movement of the belt through the housing tunnel responsive to relatively large forces applied against the belt.
Claims16
A belt assembly, comprising:
- elongated belt means having first surface means;
- housing means having tunnel means to receive a portion of the belt means and second surface means in the tunnel means facing the first surface means of the belt means, said second surface means being retained in the housing means to prevent substantial relative movement therethrough, with the size of the tunnel means relative the belt means being sufficiently small to maintain the first and second surface means in close engagement, said first and second surface means cooperating to provide substantial resistance against movement of the belt means in the tunnel means and normally retain the belt means at a selected position in the housing means, and said first and second surface means releasing sufficiently to permit movement of the belt means in the tunnel means relative the second surface means responsive to substantial forces applied against the belt means.
A belt assembly, comprising:
- a housing having first and second walls defining an elongated tunnel in the housing, with said first wall having first surface restraining means retained in the housing;
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- an elongated belt passing completely through the housing tunnel and having second surface restraining means facing said first surface means, with the size of the tunnel between the first and second walls being sufficiently small relative the thickness of the belt for the second housing wall to maintain the second surface means of the belt in close engagement with the first surface means of the housing, said first and second surface means interengaging and cooperating to provide substantial restraint against movement of the belt through the housing tunnel and normally retain the belt at a selected position in the housing, and said first and second surface means releasing sufficiently to permit movement of the belt through the housing tunnel responsive to relatively large forces applied against the belt.
A belt assembly, comprising:
- an elongated belt;
- a housing having a tunnel to receive the belt, said belt and housing having hook and loop fastening strips interengaging in the tunnel to permit selective relative movement of the belt and housing, with one of said strips being retained on the belt and the other of the strips being retained in the housing, and with said belt passing through opposed ends of the housing.
A belt assembly, comprising:
- an elongated belt;
- a housing having a tunnel to receive the belt, said belt and housing having surface portions comprising a cohesive-adhesive material interengaging in the tunnel to permit selective relative movement of the belt and housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.