Imageable seamed belts having polyamide and doped metal oxide adhesive between interlocking seaming members
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorEdward L. Schlueter, Jr.
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Abstract
A seamed flexible belt having a substrate and a seam having interlocking seam members, wherein the interlocking seam members are held together by an adhesive having polyamide and a doped metal oxide filler, for use in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like printing machines.
Claims22
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 polyamide and a doped metal oxide filler, wherein said polyamide has the following general formula:
- wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, alkoxy having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, alkyl alkoxy having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, and alkylene alkolxy having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, and wherein n is a number of from about 50 to about 1,000.
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 an alcohol-soluble polyamide and a doped metal oxide filler, wherein said polyamide has the following general formula:
- wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, alkoxy having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, alkyl alkoxy having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, and alkylene alkoxy having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, and wherein n is a number of from about 50 to about 1,000.
An image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium comprising:
- a charge-retentive surface to receive an electrostatic latent image thereon;
- a development component to apply toner to the charge-retentive surface to develop the electrostatic latent image to form a developed image on said charge retentive surface;
- a transfer belt to transfer the developed image from the charge retentive surface to a copy substrate, wherein the transfer belt is 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 transfer belt comprising a substrate and the seam comprising an adhesive comprising a polyamide and a doped metal oxide filler, wherein said polyamide has the following general formula:
- wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, alkoxy having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, alkyl alkoxy having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, and alkylene alkoxy having from about 1 to about 20 carbons, and wherein n is a number of from about 50 to about 1,000, and a fixing component to fuse the developed image to the copy substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.