Imageable seamed belts having hot melt processable, thermosetting resin and conductive carbon filler adhesive between interlocking seaming members
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsIhor W. Tarnawskyj, Joseph A. Swift, Christopher P. Manos, Theodore Lovallo
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Abstract
A seamed flexible belt having a substrate, a seam having interlocking seam members, and an optional overcoat, wherein the interlocking seam members are held together by an adhesive having a resistive, hot-melt processible, thermosetting resin and carbon filler, for use in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines.
Claims26
An endless seamed flexible belt comprising a first end and a second end, each of the first end and the second end comprising a plurality of mutually mating elements which join in an interlocking relationship to form a seam, the belt comprising a substrate and the seam comprising an adhesive comprising a resistive, hot-melt processible, thermosetting resin and a carbon filler.
An endless seamed flexible belt comprising a first end and a second end, each of the first end and the second end comprising a plurality of mutually mating elements which join in an interlocking relationship to form a seam, said belt comprising a polyimide substrate, and the seam comprising an adhesive comprising a carbon filler and a resistive, hot-melt processible, thermosetting resin polymer selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl butyral, nitrile phenolic resin, epoxy phenolic resin, and mixtures thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.