Abstract: A power transmission belt having a compression section defined by a plurality of portions having different contents of transversely extending short fibers therein. In one form, the different portions of the compression section are separated by a bonding layer. In one form, where the difference between the fiber content of the respective layers is minimized, the bonding layer is omitted. A number of different configurations of the power transmission belt incorporating such different compression section portions is disclosed.

Abstract: A toothed belt construction having a tooth cover fabric providing extended useful life of the belt. The cover fabric includes waft fibers extending longitudinally of the belt, having a toughness of at least approximately 30 where the toughness is a function of the square root of the elongation of the weft yarns at break and the strength of the west yarns at break in units of grams per denier. The elongation at break is preferably in the range of approximately 20 to 45%. The strength of the weft yarns at break is preferably at least approximately 6.0 grams per densier. Woolly processed yarns of polyamide fibers have been found to be particularly advantageous in the disclosed construction.

Abstract: A power transmission belt with discontinuous fiber protruding and bent from oppositely facing friction driving surfaces to expose lateral side portions of fiber.

Abstract: A flexible belt, made of an elastomeric material, comprising an annular body, delimited by two base surfaces and by two lateral sides; at least one of the base surfaces disposed with a predetermined winding arc around a pulley from which it receives or, to which it transmits, motion by friction. The sides of the annular body are inactive for transmitting the forces by friction. The belt that is for example, flat, is extensible, and it comprises at least one group of three layers in direct contact with one another, each layer of which includes or comprises reinforcing fibers disposed in a single predetermined direction. In the reinforcing structure no inextensible cords are present. The belt may comprise an annular element on at least one of the base surfaces of the annular body, for opposing any lateral shifting relative to the transmission pulley.

Abstract: A high capacity, toothed belt having an elastomeric body composed of a single elastomeric compound which includes from 2 to 30 parts of short fiber flock reinforcement. The flock must have a length to diameter (L/D) ratio less than 10:1.

Abstract: A power transmission ribbed V-belt having a plurality of outer ribs and a plurality of inner ribs. The number of outer ribs and height of the outer ribs differs from the number and height of the inner ribs. In the preferred embodiment, the ribs define trapezoidal distal portions having cylindrically rounded corners and planar end faces. Other rib configurations are disclosed. In the illustrated embodiment, the ribs are spaced from the midportion of the belt carrying the tensile cords by base sections, and transversely extending short reinforcing fibers are provided for improved lateral stability of the belt.

Abstract: A driving belt has a textile supporting element composed of multi-functional threads or yarns which contain plastic fibers of high breaking strength and heat-resistant natural fibers. The driving belt also contains an electrically conductive element. The supporting element is connected to a non-crosslinked plastic covering to form an asymmetric structure. The textile supporting element can be impregnated on the side facing away from the plastic covering. The electrically conductive element is either an electrically conductive filament in the multifunctional thread or yarn or an electrically conductive layer between the supporting element and the plastic covering. This asymmetric structure results in a favorable kinematic operating behavior and high efficiency, because the neutral bending plane of the belt comes to rest at a point very near the contact surface of an element to be driven.

Abstract: The flat drive belt has a layered build-up comprising at least one tensile layer (1) which has a modulus of elasticity of 20,000-250,000 N/mm.sup.2 and which is positively embedded between two thermoplastic hot-melt films (3) having a modulus of elasticity of 40-600 N/mm.sup.2. Friction layers or friction structures (4) of an elastomer material having a modulus of elasticity of 2-40 N/mm.sup.2 are built up on the hot-melt films (3).The individual layers of the flat drive belt can be produced with high precision and, as a composite, form a sheet-like structure which is very regular with respect to thickness and weight per unit area. The starting material, produced as meter ware, for the flat drive belt can be cut without effort by the user from rolls and can be joined under the action of pressure and heat into a continuous form, without thickenings and joint gaps, in the way required for the kinematic behavior of fast-running drive belts.

Abstract: A power transmission belt wherein at least a portion thereof is formed as a composite of 1 to 100 parts by weight of whiskers distributed in 100 parts by weight of rubber. The composite may form the compression section of the belt. The composite may be utilized as impregnating rubber for a fabric cover portion of the belt. The whiskers preferably have a diameter in the range of approximate 0.1 micron to 1.0 micron, and a length of approximately 10 microns to 500 microns. In the illustrated embodiment, the whiskers are acicular single crystal whiskers.

Abstract: A trapezoidal endless power transmission belt structure is provided which is made primarily of elastomeric material and has a pair of oppositely arranged surfaces disposed in spaced relation to define an outside and inside surface of the belt structure and has a load-carrying section arranged midway between the inside and outside surfaces. The belt structure has a tension section and a compression section which are of similar construction and each is comprised of a plurality of layers including a fiber-loaded layer disposed adjacent the load-carrying section and a fabric layer disposed remote from the load-carrying section; and, the fabric layers and fiber-loaded layers cooperate to assure that the belt structure has longitudinal flexibility yet has transverse rigidity or stiffness sufficient to enable the belt structure to be operated in associated sheaves free of shear planes parallel to the load-carrying section.

Abstract: A toothed belt with improved durability, comprising: a back surface section and tooth section that are made of a hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer (H-NBR) with a hydrogenation rate of 80% or more, a tooth cloth that covers said tooth section and tooth lands positioned between the adjacent tooth sections, said tooth cloth being made of industrial nylon raw fiber with a viscosity relative to sulfuric acid of 2.6 to 2.8, a tensile strength of 5 g/denier or more, and a fineness of single fibers of 5 denier or less, and a plurality of core fibers with a core diameter of 0.9 to 1.1 mm and a ratio of said core diameter to said tooth cloth thickness in the range of 1.8 to 5.0, said core fibers being made of glass fiber filaments with a first twist number of 1.7 to 2.6 twists/inch, and a final twist number of 1.8 to 2.3 twists/inch, twisted together.

Abstract: A V-belt for continuous speed variators and which is formed of a visco-elastomeric material and includes a group of teeth formed on upper and lower parts thereof. The two groups of teeth are opposed to one another with each having a substantially equal base-surface. Each of said teeth is at least partially covered by a stiffening element that is oriented transverse to the belt and extends to opposite sides of the belt. Lateral surfaces of each pair of opposing teeth for contacting with corresponding pulleys are comparable in shape.

Abstract: A V-belt (1) comprising at least three layers (2, 3, 4) of elastomeric material embedding discontinuous fibers (5, 6, 7); one of the layers (2) comprises fibers (5) directed transversally to the belt longitudinal direction and the two remaining layers (3, 4) comprise fibers (6, 7) mutually inclined in opposite direction with respect to the belt longitudinal direction X--X, the layers in which the fibers are inclined in the belt longitudinal direction having an equal extensibility. The three layers are in direct mutual contact and the belt is devoid of inextensible longitudinal reinforcement strands or the like. In some embodiments, the belt may be part of a two-pulley transmission, in particular for stepless speed change gears, where only one pulley is of the expanding type.

Abstract: A reinforced elastomeric drive belt 20 having tooth-like protuberances 21 for meshing with the teeth of a pulley is provided with reinforcing fibers 27 distributed through at least a portion of each tooth 21.Also provided is a method for building the improved belt and an improved apparatus for building such a belt.

Abstract: A power transmission V-belt for transmitting high loads with extended useful life. The portion of the V-belt in which the tensile elements thereof are embedded is formed of a rubber having short reinforcing fibers distributed therein and oriented longitudinally of the belt. Different embodiments of both wrapped and raw edge belts embodying the invention are disclosed. Embodiments in which the outermost portion of the tension section and the innermost portion of the compression section are free of the longitudinally extending short fibers are also disclosed. Preferred amounts of the short fiber material and the hardness of the rubber are disclosed.

Abstract: A reinforced belt assembly or construction which utilizes a reinforcing material comprised of a reinforcing member portion possessing a high Young's modulus discontinuous throughout the length of the reinforcing material and a carrier member portion extending the length of the reinforcing material. The carrier member portion facilitates transport and winding of the reinforcing material about a forming mandel during manufacture and facilitates cutting of the belt assembly from the cured reinforced sleeve material such that the high Young's modulus member does not emerge from the cut sidewalls of the belt assembly.

Abstract: A method of making a fiber-loaded polymeric sheet and power transmission belts utilizing same are provided wherein the sheet comprises a substantially solid polymeric matrix having fibers embedded therein and wherein the fibers comprise between 40% and 70% by weight of the sheet and at least 70% of the fibers are disposed in substantially parallel relation.

Abstract: V-belt of flexible polymeric material, in particular elastomeric material, comprising at least in the portion whose ends are destined to contact the pulley a plurality of layers, each one having fibers oriented in a single direction. The layers are alternately overlapped, some with the fibers oriented substantially in a longitudinal direction, the others oriented in a substantially transverse direction, the thickness of each layer being less or at most equal to the average length of the fibers present in the layer. Preferably, the V-belt is a cogged or toothed belt.

Abstract: A belt comprising a copolymer rubber and fibers and having strong adhesion strength even after heat-aging in air or oil and repeated deformation. The copolymer rubber has in its polymer chain (1) 10 to 60% by weight of units derived from an unsaturated nitrile, (2) 0 to 30% by weight of units derived from a conjugated diene and (3) 10 to 90% by weight of units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer other than unsaturated nitriles and/or units formed by hydrogenating units derived from a conjugated diene.

Abstract: A power transmission belt for transmitting high loads having an elastomeric looped flat belt portion having a longitudinally extending tensile cord and defining an outer surface and an inner surface, and a plurality of longitudinally extending spaced blocks mounted to the outer and inner surfaces respectively of the flat belt portion. Each block is formed of a core and a fabric wrapped around the core. In one embodiment, the block is secured to the flat belt portion by bolts extending therethrough. The fabric of the blocks may be treated with different materials, such as rubber, synthetic resins, and the like. The core may be formed of an elastomeric material. The flat belt portion may be provided with one or more layers of fabric.

Abstract: A method of making a fiber-loaded polymeric sheet and power transmission belts utilizing same are provided wherein the sheet comprises a substantially solid polymeric matrix having fibers embedded therein and wherein the fibers comprise between 40% and 70% by weight of the sheet and at least 70% of the fibers are disposed in substantially parallel relation.

Abstract: An endless power transmission belt having a toothed compression section and method of making the same are provided, the belt being formed substantially of polymeric materials and comprising a tension section, a compression section, and a load-carrying section disposed between the tension section and the compression section and having a transverse centerline, the compression section having an outer layer and an inner layer joined to the outer layer and defining an interface therewith that is substantially uniformly spaced from the load-carrying section by the outer layer throughout substantially the entire width and length of the belt. The compression section has an inner surface in the form of alternating transverse teeth and grooves with the grooves respectively defining the roots of the teeth.

Abstract: An apron for a draft apparatus being suitable for use with a pneumatic high speed spinning frame. The apron includes a front side rubber layer, a reverse side rubber layer adhered to the front side rubber layer and core cords interposed between the two rubber layers. The peripheral borders of the apron have such a construction that one of said rubber layers is retracted from the other of the rubber layers.

Abstract: An apron for a draft apparatus being suitable for use with a pneumatic high speed spinning frame. The apron includes a front side rubber layer, a reverse side rubber layer adhered to the front side rubber layer and core cords interposed between the two rubber layers. A ratio of thickness between the front side rubber layer and the reverse side rubber layer is set to a value within a range from 3:7 to 1:9.

Abstract: A reinforced elastomeric drive belt 20 having tooth-like protuberances 21 for meshing with the teeth of a pulley is provided with reinforcing fibers 27 distributed through at least a portion of each tooth 21.Also provided is a method for building the improved belt and an improved apparatus for building such a belt.

Abstract: An endless power transmission belt having a toothed compression section and method of making the same are provided, the belt being formed substantially of polymeric materials and comprising a tension section, a compression section, and a load-carrying section disposed between the tension section and the compression section and having a transverse centerline, the compression section having an outer layer and an inner layer joined to the outer layer and defining an interface therewith that is substantially uniformly spaced from the load-carrying section by the outer layer throughout substantially the entire width and length of the belt. The compression section has an inner surface in the form of alternating transverse teeth and grooves with the grooves respectively defining the roots of the teeth. The inner layer has a thickness from the interface to the tips of the teeth thereof that is approximately the same as the thickness of the outer layer.

Abstract: A V-belt construction wherein a belt body defining an inner compression rubber portion and an outer compression rubber portion with tensile cords extending longitudinally therethrough is provided with a plurality of transversely extending reinforcing staple fibers distributed in the outer compression rubber portion such that the tensile cords are embedded within the distribution of the staple fibers. V-belts of the invention are provided both in raw edge and fabric-covered form. The rubber in which the tensile cords are embedded preferably has a hardness in the range of approximately 70.degree. to 90.degree.. Different distributions of the transverse staple fibers are disclosed.

Abstract: An endless power transmission V-belt construction and method of making the same are provided, the belt construction being formed mainly of polymeric material and having rounded top and bottom teeth respectively extending along the length of the top and bottom surfaces of the belt construction, the belt construction comprising a tension section having the top surface, a compression section having the bottom surface, and a load-carrying section disposed intermediate the tension section and the compression section. The quotient of the top width to belt thickness is approximately 2.0, the quotient of the bottom to top tooth pitch is approximately 1.40, the quotient of the bottom to top tooth depth is approximately 1.77 and the quotient of the belt thickness to flex thickness is approximately 3.98.

Abstract: A power transmission belt which is substantially V-shaped in cross-section has insert members which are resistant to transverse compression embedded in an elastomeric or plastomeric body. Protective layers of elastomer or plastomer having oriented fibers dispersed therein cover the flanks of the belt and, if necessary, are disposed in addition to the belt body adjacent to a base of the belt.

Abstract: A method of making a fiber-loaded polymeric sheet and power transmission belts utilizing same are provided wherein the sheet comprises a substantially solid polymeric matrix having fibers embedded therein and wherein the fibers comprise between 40% and 70% of the sheet and at least 70% of the fibers are disposed in substantially parallel relation.

Abstract: A strip of material adapted for use in a power transmission belt construction, method of making such strip, and belt construction and method of making same employing the strip are provided wherein such strip comprises an uncured polymeric matrix material having opposed surfaces and a plurality of elongate reinforcing fibers disposed substantially uniformly throughout the matrix material in a random manner and in parallel relation and a plurality of parallel spaced apart bleeder yarns are adhered against at least one of the surfaces with the strip being adapted to be laminated against associated layer means comprising the belt construction on at least one common interface with the bleeder yarns along the interface and the bleeder yarns are adapted to serve as fluid passages for any fluid present at the interface during curing of the strip and its associated layer means.

Abstract: A reinforced elastomeric drive belt 20 having tooth-like protuberances 21 for meshing with the teeth of a pulley is provided with reinforcing fibers 27 distributed through at least a portion of each tooth 21.Also provided is a method for building the improved belt and an improved apparatus for building such a belts.

Abstract: A method of producing endless drive belts of natural or synthetic rubber with thread-shaped embedded strength carriers which preferably extend in the longitudinal direction. This method relates especially to multiple V-belts and similar belts having longitudinal ribs extending continuously over the inner periphery or circumference thereof. A raw belt member is built up in upside-down sequence of layering, and is placed into an outer form or mold, in which it is formed-out and vulcanized. The belts are then turned or folded or rolled over into the use condition thereof. The raw belt member, which is produced oversize with respect to the outer form or mold, is retracted, pulled-in, or drawn-in to an outer diameter corresponding to the smallest inner diameter of the outer form, and is expanded within the outer form to, or essentially to, the original outer diameter thereof.

Abstract: A heavy duty, raw edge, laminated cogged belt is provided, together with a method for making such a belt. The belt has an inner compression section, an outer tension section and a load-carrying section therebetween. The compression section comprises a first layer of elastomeric material adjacent the load-carrying section, a plurality of layers of relatively thick fabric adjacent the first elastomeric material layer, a second layer of elastomeric material adjacent the thick fabric layers, and a plurality of layers of thinner fabric adjacent the second elastomeric material layer.

Abstract: A raw edge type rubber V-belt having a tension section, a compression section and a tensile member layer extending in the longitudinal direction of the belt and embedded between the tension section and the compression section. A single or plural plies of rubbered fabric highly stretchable in the longitudinal direction of said belt are, in laminated form, embedded in the lower portion of the compression section with a rubber layer on each fabric, and bonded to the upper surface of the tension section. Short fibers are mixed in a compression rubber layer under the tensile member layer and in a tension rubber layer on the tensile member layer in such a manner that the short fibers extend in the lateral direction of the belt.

Abstract: A power transmission V-belt having a tensile member (11) arranged in the form of a layer along the center line of the belt and first and second elastic rubber layers (14), (13), formed on opposite surfaces of the layer. The modulus of elasticity of the second elastic rubber layer is either equal to or smaller than that of the first elastic rubber layer. A first stretchable fabric (16) is provided on the surface of the first elastic rubber layer (14) and a second stretchable fabric (15) is provided on the surface of the second elastic rubber layer (13). The stretchability of the second stretchable fabric in the longitudinal direction is larger than that of the first stretchable fabric (16). The belt has a trapezoid cross-section.

Abstract: An adjustless V-belt and method of manufacture. The V-belt comprises: a compressive rubber layer made of a heatproof or coldproof rubber and an adhesion rubber layer laminated on said compressive rubber layer. A group of cogs protrude from said adhesion rubber layer with a predetermined pitch and depth and a longitudinally stretchable cover canvas covers the cogs, and the roots between said cogs. Rope tensile members are embedded between the adhesion rubber layer and the group of cogs with a regular pitch line and in the cylindrical state such a manner that parts of the tensile members are in contact with said cover canvas. The rope tensile members have a high thermal contraction stress of at least 3.5 g/denier which is the differential between a thermal contraction stress at 100.degree. C. and that at room temperature (about 20.degree. C.). Short fibers are embedded in the compressive rubber layer in such a manner that the short fibers are orientated laterally therein.

Abstract: The longitudinal cables of a belt whose longitudinal centerline differs from that of the equipment on which it is produced and whose cable-to-cable spacing differs from that of the cable tensioner, are tensioned in a generally symmetrical pattern about the longitudinal centerline of the belt. An effective number of cables are directed from the proper edge at the comb into the center of the belt. One half of the remaining cables are moved over the same number of spaces, at the comb, toward the proper edge of the belt.

Abstract: A wrapped, molded belt, and a method for making the same, are provided wherein the belt has a cover made from cord fabric. The angle of the strength cords of the cord fabric is different from the angle of the cords on the sides of the belt. The belt is produced by wrapping a desired width of cord fabric around a belt body, skewing the cords a desired amount and in a desired direction, depending upon which face of the belt body is being covered, and finally, curing the belt.

Abstract: An endless power transmission belt 10 having reduced coefficient of friction sides 16, 17 is provided which comprises a belt body 11 having a friction-reducing layer 15 bonded thereto. The layer 15 comprises a belt body 11 having a friction-reducing layer 15 bonded thereto. The layer 15 comprises an elastomer, activated carbon and at least one friction-reducing material.

Abstract: A reinforced elastomeric drive belt 20 having tooth-like protuberances 21 for meshing with the teeth of a pulley is provided with reinforcing fibers 27 distributed through at least a portion of each tooth 21.Also provided is a method for building the improved belt and an improved apparatus for building such a belt.

Abstract: An endless power transmission belt having a compression section, a load-carrying section and a tension section, comprising a plurality of layers of rubber-impregnated fabric having transverse corrugations molded therein to provide a belt having increased transverse rigidity.

Abstract: An endless power transmission belt is provided which comprises a first portion defining the bottom surface of the belt and comprising a plurality of laterally spaced power transmitting ribs and a groove between each adjacent rib, a second portion bonded to the first portion and acting as a tie band therefor and for the third portion which defines the top surface of the belt and also comprises a plurality of laterally spaced power transmitting ribs and a groove between each adjacent rib. The third portion is symmetrical with the first portion and the grooves in each portion provide a relief area between the ribs to allow debris to work through the tie band and become discharged.

Abstract: Novel 1,4-disubstituted-3-nitropyrazoles having antimicrobial, parasiticidal, and herbicidal activity are prepared by a reaction sequence of which the individual steps are conventional. The new 3-nitropyrazoles are characterized by a 1-substituent and a usually carbonyl-containing 4-substituent. The novel 3(5)-nitro-4-pyrazole-carbonitrile is obtained as an intermediate in the preparation of the biologically-active compounds. Preferred compounds are 1-alkyl or -alkenyl-4-pyrazolecarboxamides and carbonitriles. The new compounds are particularly useful for the control of bacterial animal diseases.