Woven safety belt with rope-like configuration

A rope substitution belt having a main body portion, a belt portion and a connecting portion for connecting said main body portion to said belt portion, each portion being disposed in a predetermined length in a longitudinal direction of said belt, as a narrow width woven fabric having warp yarns and weft yarns of synthetic fiber filaments,

• wherein said main body portion has wadding yarns that are woven into a hollow woven structure so that said wadding yarns are parallelly arranged to each other inside said woven structure and are tightly surrounded by said woven structure, a total denier number of said wadding yarns is at least 1.5 times a total denier number of warp yarns of said hollow woven structure, said hollow woven structure has a warp density coefficient of not greater than 0.700, said belt portion has a woven structure in which warp yarns which once had been used as at least part of the wadding yarns of said main body portion are so arranged as to cross said weft yarns with said warp yarns of said hollow woven structure portion of said main body portion, said belt portion has a width of at least 2.0 times a width of said main body portion, and in said connecting portion a width of a woven structure thereof is gradually changed, the woven structure of said connecting portion shifting step-wise over a plurality of stages, from a woven structure of said main body portion to a woven structure of said belt portion.