Abstract: Woven fabric for use in a power transmission belt. The fabric has a warp of shrinkable yarns obtained by aligning and twisting individual shrinkable mixed twisted yarns. Alternatively, the warp may be formed of more than two mixed twisted yarns mixed in a ratio of greater than 1:15 of elastic yarns formed of polyurethane fibrous yarns oriented at more than 10%, or rubber yarns and other fibrous yarns. The weft is made alternatively of twisted yarns or monofilament yarns. The fabric has excellent shrinkability, wear resistance, and crack resistance.

Abstract: A toothed drive belt having inner and outer reinforcing fabric layers. The inner layer has a large mesh size, is highly stretchable, has a fine warp of 30 to 210 d, has a normal weft, and the sum of the cover factors of the warp and weft are no more than 20. The inner layer may have either a flat or a wavy shape within the teeth. The outer layer has a low stretchability and a normal warp and weft. The inner layer, which is bonded strongly to the rubber substrate of the belt due to its large mesh size, easily follows the deformations of the teeth. Due to a small thread size, the amount of PLD is reduced.

Abstract: A belt tooth is provided with an arcuate surface at its tip for engaging and compressing against the bottom surface of a pulley groove to decrease noise and vibration in a toothed belt power transmission system.