Endless seamed belt with high strength
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsEdward L. Schlueter Jr., Thomas C. Parker
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Abstract
An endless flexible seamed belt formed by joining two ends of the material from which the belt is fabricated, the belt having at least one overlapping butting joint to form the endless belt, each end of the belt material having top and bottom overlapping mating portions of the same length and wherein both the top and bottom overlapping portions are about one-half the thickness of the belt material, the mating portions being joined to provide a lapping joint and two butting joints and wherein rigid high strength fibers are present between mating portions of at least one joint, the seamed belt having been formed by the application of heat to said mating portions when the fibers are present in at least one joint.
Claims14
An endless flexible seamed belt formed by joining a top end and a bottom end of a material from which the belt is fabricated, said belt having at least one overlapping butting joint to form the belt seam of the endless flexible seamed belt, said top and bottom ends of the belt material shaped into overlapping mating portions of the same length and wherein both the top and bottom overlapping portions are about one-half the thickness of the belt material, said mating portions being joined to provide a lapping joint and two butting joints and wherein rigid, high strength fibers are present between mating portions of at least one joint, said seamed belt having been formed by the application of heat to said mating portions when said fibers are present in at least one joint.
An endless flexible seamed belt formed by joining a top end and a bottom end of a material from which the belt is fabricated, said belt having at least one overlapping butting joint to form the endless belt, said top and bottom ends of the belt material shaped into overlapping mating portions of the same length and wherein both the top and bottom overlapping portions are about one-half the thickness of the belt material, said mating portions being joined to provide a lapping joint and two butting joints and wherein rigid, high strength fibers having a modulus much higher than that of the belt material, are present between mating portions of at least one joint, said seamed belt having been formed by the application of heat to said mating portions when said fibers are present in at least one joint.
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