US 6,669,800 B2 · Method of making belts having burnished seams

Abstract

Imageable seamed intermediate transfer belts having a large seam surface area, and marking machines that use such imageable seamed intermediate transfer belts. The seamed intermediate transfer belt having an inner surface and an outer surface having predefine surface properties for the purpose of imaging. A belt is formed from a semiconductive substrate having a first end and a second end that are mated to form a seam. An adhesive is disposed over the joint whereupon joint can be burnished or overcoated with a material that substantially imitate predefined surface properties of the belt.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A method for making an imageable seamed intermediate transfer belt having an inner surface and an outer surface having predefined surface properties, comprising:

joining together an end portion of a first semiconductive substrate to an end portion of a second semiconductive substrate to form a seam,
applying an adhesive material into the seam;
burnishing the adhesive material in seam with a material to transfer said material to the adhesive material thereby substantially imitating predefined surface properties of the belt.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/260,198Filed 27 Sep 2002 · division

Priority

28 Nov 2000

Published

US 2003/0037859 A127 Feb 2003

Granted

30 Dec 2003

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

B29C 65/56
Joining or sealing of preformed parts , e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor: using mechanical means or mechanical connections,…
B29C 65/483
Characterised by the type of adhesives: reactive adhesives, e.g. chemically curing adhesives
B29C 66/0242
Thermal pre-treatments: heating, or preheating, e.g. drying
B29C 66/1142
Single butt joints: single butt to butt joints

Method of making belts having burnished seams

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Method of making belts having burnished seams

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Abstract

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