Abstract: A method and assembly for making a power transmission belt having driving teeth on opposite surfaces thereof and a tensile member embedded therein. The disclosure also relates to a belt made by the method and apparatus.

Abstract: A belt drive including a toothed power transmission belt and toothed pulley or pulleys operating in conjunction and each having an improved tooth configuration. Each belt tooth as viewed in longitudinal cross-section includes stress relieving portions or fillets adjoining the opposite sides of the base of the tooth. Each fillet has an outer perimeter or outer surface area which is at least 30% of one half of the total outer perimeter or outer surface area of the belt tooth. The pulley in cross section includes an outermost portion having an arcuate outer perimeter formed by the arc of at least one circle whose center point lies within the pulley tooth with one half of the arcuate outer perimeter or outer surface area being at least 30% of one half of the total outer perimeter or outer surface area of the tooth.

Abstract: A belt drive and belt and pulleys therefor in which a toothed power transmission belt operates in conjunction with toothed pulleys. The dimensional relationship between the belt teeth and pulley teeth is such that in the longitudinal extent of the belt between the pulleys the height of the belt teeth is greater than the height of the pulley teeth or depth of the pulley grooves while as the belt travels around the pulleys the extreme outwardly facing portions or outer extremities of the belt teeth contact the bottom of the pulley grooves and at the same time the belt teeth are compressed to reduce their height so that the extreme radially outwardly facing portions or outer extremities of the pulley teeth come in contact with the bottoms of the belt grooves. The invention is particularly useful in a synchronous or positive drive system for increasing belt life by relieving stresses on the tensile member in the area between teeth of a positive drive power transmission belt.

Abstract: A method and assembly for making a power transmission belt having driving teeth on opposite surfaces thereof and a tensile member embedded therein. The disclosure also relates to a belt made by the method and apparatus.