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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsRobert C. U. Yu, Geoffrey M. T. Foley, William G. Herbert, William W. Limburg, Satchidanand Mishra, Richard L. Post, Donald C. VonHoene
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A process including providing at least two support members maintained at a predetermined distance from each other, encircling the support members with at least one loosely hanging preformed flexible seamless carrier support sleeve having a predetermined outer circumference, encircling the seamless carrier support sleeve with a flexible belt having an inner circumference substantially same as or less than the predetermined outer circumference of the seamless carrier support sleeve, and increasing the distance between the support members to stretch the flexible belt, the size of the inner circumference of the stretched flexible belt being substantially equal to the outer circumference of the seamless carrier support sleeve after stretching the flexible belt. The resulting flexible belt assembly fabricated by this process may be utilized in various systems including electrostatographic imaging systems.
A method for supporting a preformed, continuous flexible belt comprising providing at least two support members maintained at a predetermined distance from each other, encircling said support members with at least one loosely hanging preformed flexible seamless carrier support sleeve having a predetermined outer circumference, encircling said seamless carrier support sleeve with a preformed, continuous flexible belt having an inner circumference substantially same as or less than said predetermined outer circumference of said seamless carrier support sleeve, and increasing said distance between said support members to stretch said flexible belt, the size of the inner circumference of said stretched flexible belt being substantially equal to the outer circumference of said seamless carrier support sleeve after stretching said flexible belt.
A method for supporting a preformed, continuous flexible belt imaging member comprising providing at least two support members maintained at a predetermined distance from each other, encircling said support members with at least one loosely hanging preformed flexible seamless carrier support sleeve having a predetermined outer circumference, encircling said carrier support sleeve with a preformed flexible belt having an inner circumference at least about 0.05 percent smaller than said outer circumference of said support sleeve, and increasing said distance between said members until said inner circumference of said flexible belt is substantially equal to said outer circumference of said carrier support sleeve.
Apparatus for supporting a preformed, continuous flexible belt comprising at least two support members maintained at a predetermined distance from each other, at least one preformed flexible seamless carrier support sleeve encircling and loosely hanging from said support members, a preformed, continuous preformed flexible belt encircling said carrier support sleeve, and means to increase said distance between at least two of said support members to stretch said flexible belt and remove slack from said seamless carrier support sleeve.
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