# US 5,704,861 A · Synchronous drive belt/pulley combination

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- Number: US 5,704,861 A
- Document ID: US5704861A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/708,007
- Filed: 1996-08-28
- Granted: 1998-01-06
- Earliest claimed: 1996-08-28
- Assignees: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
- Inventors: Frank Joseph Feuerborn
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5704861A

## CPC

- F16H 7/023: {with belts having a toothed contact surface or regularly spaced bosses or hollows for slipless or nearly slipless meshing with complementary profiled contact surface of a pulley}
- F16H: GEARING

## Abstract

A synchronous drive belt/pulley combination wherein the lateral edges of the belt overhang the pulley.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A combination of a self-tracking synchronous drive belt having lateral edges and an externally flangeless pulley having a width wherein the belt width between the lateral edges is from 101% to 200% the width of the pulley.