Fabric Having Particular Knit Or Weave Patents (Class 474/267)
  • Patent number: 12066079
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an article having an elastic main body based on at least one thermoplastic elastomer or based on a vulcanizate and having an article surface that is provided with a textile overlay in the form of a plated knitted fabric, wherein the textile overlay is composed of at least two types of yarn that alternate in the individual knitted courses at regular intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Henning Kanzow, Felicitas Broianigo, Roman Gaska
  • Patent number: 12055196
    Abstract: A cover fabric for power transmission belts having two or more alternating stripes or bands of different frictional properties. The stripes may be different fabric constructions. The fabric may be woven or knit with stripes of different area or yarn densities, different permeabilities, or different openness. The fabric may cover a surface of a V-ribbed-belt, V-belt, toothed belt, flat belt, round belt or other drive belt, resulting in stripes having different amounts of rubber strike through or different coefficients of friction. The stripes may be different rubber compositions or flocking or other materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: GATES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karla J. Bier, Lidia Garcia Saez, David Tornero Garcia, Vega Colom Martinez, Jordi Graner, Brett Bertrand
  • Patent number: 11654645
    Abstract: A frictional power transmission belt includes a tension layer forming a belt back surface, a compression rubber layer to be in contact with a pulley and frictionally engaged with the pulley, and a tension member embedded between the tension layer and the compression rubber layer along a belt length direction. The compression rubber layer has a surface to be in contact with the pulley. At least a part of the surface is coated with a fiber layer via a fiber/resin mixture layer. The fiber/resin mixture layer contains a resin component and heat-resistant fibers having a softening point or a melting point higher than a vulcanization temperature of a rubber forming the compression rubber layer. The fiber layer contains hydrophilic heat-resistant fibers having a softening point or a melting point higher than the vulcanization temperature and does not contain a resin component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Tamura, Hiroki Takechi, Arata Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10704645
    Abstract: A cover fabric for a power transmission belt, the fabric woven from warp yarns and weft yarns; the warp yarns and weft yarns each plied from a first filament yarn and a second filament yarn; the first filament yarn comprising higher tensile strength fibers than the second filament yarn; and the fabric woven in a modified twill pattern. A toothed belt with the cover fabric on the teeth, oriented on a bias, with the fabric having a bias angle less than 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Gates Corporation
    Inventors: Min Gao, Nigel Peter Blunsden, Guogong Chen, Shawn Xiang Wu, Cynthia Decker
  • Patent number: 9617118
    Abstract: An exemplary elongated elevator load bearing member of a traction elevator system includes a plurality of tension elements. A plurality of weave fibers transverse to the tension elements are woven with the tension elements. The weave fibers define at least one traction surface of the load bearing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventors: John P. Wesson, Gopal R. Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20140087904
    Abstract: A power transmission belt. The power transmission belt includes a body having an inner perimeter and an outer perimeter. A fabric is attached to the inner perimeter of the body for reinforcement wherein the fabric is a double knit fabric formed using textured yarns in at least the cross-machine direction. The belt may further include a layer of reinforcing cords surrounding the outer perimeter of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Highland Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Floyd Avery, Terry Wayne Hinson, Nicholas Edward Irwin, William James Canipe
  • Patent number: 8293357
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power transmission belt presenting elastomer teeth based on ethylene alpha olefin elastomer provided with an outer woven or non-woven covering. According to the invention the teeth are covered in a barrier layer, in particular of a thermoplastic material, and said outer covering, at least on the flanks of the teeth, is partially included in a portion of the thickness of the barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: Jean-Loup Cretin, Julie Rognon, Denis Tricoche, Hervé Varin
  • Patent number: 8192317
    Abstract: A reinforced conveyor belt has a plurality of fabric plies. One of the plies is an interwoven ply comprised of two layers of weft cords and a plurality of warp cords interweaving through the two layers of weft cords. Each warp cord has the following repeating weave pattern of passing over at least two but not more than five weft cords in the first weft layers, passing between the two weft layers for a distance of at least two weft cords, and passing under at least two but nor more than five weft cords in the second weft layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Veyance Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eun Kyung Lee, Edwin Lee Haines, Douglas Brooks Deans, Peter Earl Radding, Jenny Zhaoxia Yu
  • Patent number: 7749120
    Abstract: A power transmission belt. The power transmission belt includes the following: a backing layer; a body having a top surface and a bottom surface, the bottom surface joined with the backing layer, the top surface including a plurality of teeth, and the body including a plurality of reinforcing cords positioned between the top and bottom surfaces; and a fabric material having a top surface and a bottom surface, the bottom surface at least partially embedded in the top surface of the body, the fabric material being a weft knitted structure having N×N ribs, wherein N is at least 2, and the top surface of the fabric material being at least partially exposed at surfaces of the plurality of teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Dayco Products, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel A. Pelton
  • Publication number: 20090258744
    Abstract: A belt assembly is provided for use as an endless belt traveling relative to a frame structure. The belt assembly comprises a first plain woven fabric layer having an inner surface and an outer surface that at least partially forms an upper surface of the belt. The first fabric layer includes synthetic yarns having a denier of at least about 1000. A second lofty woven fabric layer has an inner surface and an outer surface that at least partially forms a bottom surface of the belt. The second fabric layer includes an effective amount of textured synthetic yarns and/or synthetic staple filament yarns. An adhesive composition comprising an elastomeric material is adhered to the inner surface of the first fabric layer and the inner surface of the second fabric layer for joining the fabric layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: FORBO SIEGLING, LLC
    Inventors: Jay Philip Leighton, Sandra Vause Canipe
  • Publication number: 20080214346
    Abstract: A woven belt for a machine for producing web material, in particular forming mesh, including at least two woven layers with warp threads extending in a belt longitudinal direction and weft threads extending in a belt transverse direction, wherein a first of the woven layers provides a web material contact side and a second of the woven layers provides a machine contact side and the woven layers are joined together by tie warp threads, wherein the first woven layer is woven with at least 26 different warp runs, the structure-forming warp threads woven into the first woven layer and the weft threads of the first woven layer having a maximum floating length of 3 in relation to each other, wherein, when the tie warp threads for providing structure-forming tie thread pairs are arranged in pairs relative to each other so that where a tie warp thread of a respective structure-forming tie warp thread pair is integrated into the first woven layer then the other tie warp thread of this structure-forming tie warp thread
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Arved H. Westerkamp, Petra Hack-Ueberall
  • Publication number: 20080108466
    Abstract: A power transmission belt. The power transmission belt includes the following: a backing layer; a body having a top surface and a bottom surface, the bottom surface joined with the backing layer, the top surface including a plurality of teeth, and the body including a plurality of reinforcing cords positioned between the top and bottom surfaces; and a fabric material having a top surface and a bottom surface, the bottom surface at least partially embedded in the top surface of the body, the fabric material being a weft knitted structure having N×N ribs, wherein N is at least 2, and the top surface of the fabric material being at least partially exposed at surfaces of the plurality of teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventor: Daniel A. Pelton
  • Publication number: 20070197334
    Abstract: An apparatus for the production of a fibrous web, in particular a paper web or paperboard web, having a belt formed from individual threads which are connected together, in particular woven together, whereby the surface of the threads is constructed to be structured in order to improve the paper quality and the production flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Matthias SCHMITT
  • Patent number: 6945892
    Abstract: A power transmission belt is disclosed in which the exterior of the overcord section is generally flat in contour and bears an outer seamless tubular knit textile material adhered to an adjacent rubber layer material interposed between the exterior belt back surface and a strain-resisting tensile section. The belt is adapted to be run against backside idlers or tensioners with minimized noise generation. A simplified process including use of a tubular knit stretched over and applied to the building drum is disclosed, thereby eliminating conventional calendaring and Bannering operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: The Gates Corporation
    Inventor: Paul S. Knutson
  • Publication number: 20040121869
    Abstract: A The invention relates to a strip, especially a drive belt, comprises comprising a fabric (G) as a tractional layer, the said fabric having a stitched twill weave on both sides. The inventive strip is such that it remains flexible while at the same time guaranteeing high force transmission. Due to the fact that the fabric has a stitched twill weave on both sides, the two sides thereof can be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventor: Marion Becella
  • Publication number: 20040063532
    Abstract: A power transmission belt is formed so that the back face side of a belt body is covered with a reinforced fabric woven with warps and wefts. In the reinforced fabric, the direction of warps and the direction of wefts make equal angles with the belt widthwise direction, and each of two directions of consecutive yarn intersections of the warps and wefts formed to stand out from the belt surface makes a certain angle with the belt widthwise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Nakamoto, Hideaki Kawahara, Katsuyoshi Fujiwara, Tomoaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6689005
    Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with a length, an inside, an outside, and laterally oppositely facing side surfaces. The body has a) a cushion rubber layer in which at least one load carrying element is embedded so that the at least one load carrying element extends lengthwise relative to the body, and b) a compression rubber layer. Fabric material is provided on one of the inside and outside of the body. The fabric material is treated with a mixture of carbon-black-dispersed liquid and resorcinol-formalin-latex liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Hasaka, Keiji Takano, Sumiko Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 6685785
    Abstract: A belt (1), and a method of forming a belt (1), with at least one row of teeth (5) formed on at least one surface of the betling (1). To improve the tooth formation of the belting (1), and the abrasion of the belting (1), the outer surface of the teeth (4) are formed with the disclosed bi-directional stretch woven fabric (7). The warp (10) and weft (11) yarns are formed of a core yarn (12) about which is helically wrapped at least one yarn (13 or 14), forming a scaffold construction. The bi-directional stretch characteristics of the fabric (7) permit greater deformation of the fabric (7) while forming the belt teeth (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Morris, Wei Willie Chien
  • Patent number: 6656073
    Abstract: A toothed belt wherein the toothed portion is covered with a cover cloth consisting of a weft and a warp. The weft consists of weft yarns defined by an elastic core yarn and by at least one composite yarn wound about the elastic yarn; and each composite yarn comprises a high thermal and mechanical resistance yarn and at least one covering yarn wound about the high thermal and mechanical resistance yarn. To improve adhesion of the cloth to the elastomeric material of the belt body and teeth, to improve abrasion resistance and to extend the average working life of the belt, according to the present invention, the cloth is treated with an adhesive composition comprising resorcinol, formaldehyde, a highly saturated and carboxyl groups containing nitrile and conjugated diene copolymer latex, and epoxy resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Dayco Europe S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Di Meco, Arturo Carrano
  • Patent number: 6632151
    Abstract: A power transmission belt is disclosed in which the exterior of the overcord section is generally flat in contour and bears an outer seamless tubular knit textile material adhered to an adjacent rubber layer material interposed between the exterior belt back surface and a strain-resisting tensile section. The belt is adapted to be run against backside idlers or tensioners with minimized noise generation. A simplified process including use of a tubular knit stretched over and applied to the building drum is disclosed, thereby eliminating conventional calendaring and Bannering operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: The Gates Corporation
    Inventor: Paul S. Knutson
  • Publication number: 20030078125
    Abstract: A power transmission belt using an open mesh textile material in the belt overcord which is stabilized with a material promoting permeation of an underlying gum rubber layer through interstices in the textile material during vulcanization of the belt. The coefficient of friction of the backside of the belt is sufficient to enable the belt to drive backside pulleys, tensioners and other mechanical devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventor: Paul S. Knutson
  • Publication number: 20030073533
    Abstract: A power transmission belt is disclosed in which the exterior of the overcord section is generally flat in contour and bears an outer seamless tubular knit textile material adhered to an adjacent rubber layer material interposed between the exterior belt back surface and a strain-resisting tensile section. The belt is adapted to be run against backside idlers or tensioners with minimized noise generation. A simplified process including use of a tubular knit stretched over and applied to the building drum is disclosed, thereby eliminating conventional calendaring and Bannering operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventor: Paul S. Knutson
  • Publication number: 20010029217
    Abstract: A transport belt for transporting a fiber strand to be condensed through a suctioned condensing zone of a spinning machine, an air-permeable, woven transport belt is provided. This transport belt is driven on the one hand by means of a friction drive of a nipping roll and on the other hand slides at the same time over a stationary sliding surface. The transport belt is woven from fine threads in such a way that, despite a small mesh width, a good flow rate of air is achieved. At regular intervals, coarser threads are woven in transversely to the transport direction, whose structure is such that the friction between a nipping roller, which effects the friction drive, and the transport belt is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Applicant: Wilhelm Stahlecker GmbH
    Inventor: Gerd Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 6116156
    Abstract: A machine is provided for producing a continuous material web. In particular, a paper web or a cardboard web can be produced by the machine. The machine has a number of rolls, around which the material web is guided by the use of at least one belt. The belt has at least two zones. The zones have different properties with at least one of the zones being designed to transmit a drive force to the rolls of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Schiel, Karlheinz Straub
  • Patent number: 5971879
    Abstract: A belt reinforcing material of at least two layers where one layer is a twined fabric and the other layer is a woven fabric that are attached to each other such as by needle-punching. A toothed power transmission belt with a plurality of teeth spaced along one side of the belt includes the aforementioned fabric disposed at a peripheral surface that includes the belt teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: The Gates Corporation
    Inventor: William L. Westhoff
  • Patent number: 5954606
    Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with a length, an inside, an outside, and at least one rib on the inside of the body. A canvas layer is provided on the outside of the body. The canvas layer is a plain weave canvas made up of cotton fiber and synthetic fiber which are present in a proportion such that there is at least as much synthetic fiber as there is cotton fiber in the canvas layer. The canvas layer has warp and weft yarns, each with center lines which cross to be biased with respect to the length of the body. The canvas layer is adhered to the body without performing a tentering treatment on the canvas layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoichi Mishima, Masashi Tamura
  • Patent number: 5840636
    Abstract: A conveyor belt is described having a woven fabric backing which includes staple fiber yarn and includes a twill weave with an inclination angle of 10.degree. to 70.degree. relative to the moving direction of the conveyor belt, and in which adjacent yarns have the same direction of lay. In the woven fabric backing the staple fiber yarn is provided as warp yarn, each of which has the same direction of lay in its longitudinal direction, and adjacent yarns of which are alternately S and Z twisted. Additionally, elements which support the tensile forces are arranged in the conveyor belt, the elements being arranged in a woven fabric or being sheathed as threads by staple fibers. Since the staple fiber yarn of the warp of the woven fabric backing extends diagonally over the entire width of the conveyor belt, an endless support results even when the belt runs over an edge, and an absolutely uniform vibration-free conveyor belt movement having a low noise level is achieved even when the belt passes over an edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Forbo International S.A.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Mitsutsuka, Hans-Georg Tope, Burkhard Koenig
  • Patent number: 5785621
    Abstract: A woven belt for a corrugated cardboard machine has a central woven layer for absorbing tensile stress which consists of first warp and weft threads. The first warp threads cross at least two first weft threads on one side of the central layer before crossing over to the other side. A woven top layer is connected to the upper side and a woven bottom layer is connected to the bottom side of the central layer. The top layer provides a support surface for the cardboard and has second warp and weft threads. The second warp threads cross at least two second weft threads on one side of the top layer before crossing over to the other side. The bottom layer has third warp and weft threads. The third warp threads cross one third weft thread on an inner side of the bottom layer before crossing over to the outer side. The third warp threads cross at least three third weft threads on the outer side of the bottom layer before crossing over to the inner side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Muhlen Sohn GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Armin Birzele
  • Patent number: 5776026
    Abstract: A top fabric 2 which is disposed on the back face of a power transmission belt 1 is obtained by joining a plurality of rubberized fabric pieces 2a, in each of which warps 7 and wefts 8 intersect each other at an obtuse angle which is open toward the direction of the length of the belt, in the shape of a ring. Joining lines of adjacent fabric pieces 2a, 2a both intersect at a right angle with respect to the direction of the length of the belt and are parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Tajima, Sizuaki Tsuruta, Hirotaka Hatai, Takamitsu Akashi
  • Patent number: 5753369
    Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with a length, inside, and outside, and laterally spaced side surfaces. The body has a compression section, with there being a plurality of fibers embedded in the compression section having a diameter of 0.7 to 0.9 denier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Kawashima, Koji Kitahama, Kyoichi Mishima
  • Patent number: 5645504
    Abstract: A power transmission belt with a body of belt material and belt teeth formed of the body and covered with a knitted fabric with a 1.times.1 rib construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: The Gates Corporation
    Inventor: William L. Westhoff
  • Patent number: 5616090
    Abstract: A cover fabric for power transmission belts, hoses and the like, having improved durability in service, appearance, and handling characteristics. The cover fabric includes a strip of Jersey knit fabric having a plurality of stitch loops forming interconnected loop chains. The interconnected loop chains form wales and courses. The strip is bias cut such that each of the wales are disposed at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the knit fabric strip. The knit fabric cover may include a coating of elastomer, such as polychloroprene, thereon.Preferably, the wales are disposed at an angle of from about 40.degree. to about 70.degree. with respect to the longitudinal axis, and, more preferably, at an angle of about 55.degree.. Preferably, the wales of the knit fabric cover are disposed at an angle of greater than 90.degree. with respect to the courses, and, more preferably, at an angle of from about 100.degree. to about 110.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Inventors: James N. McGee, Jr., Darrel N. Wells
  • Patent number: 5611745
    Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with an inside and an outside, a length, and a plurality of teeth on one of the inside and outside of the belt body and spaced in a likewise direction. A load carrying cord is embedded in the belt body and extends lengthwise thereof. The load carrying cord is made up of a first plurality of monofilament aramid fibers, each having a denier of 0.5 to 2.0 and bundled to define a combined diameter of 0.10 to 0.20 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniharu Uto, Yoshihisa Fujita, Takahide Mizuno
  • Patent number: 5536554
    Abstract: A reinforcing fabric for reinforcing power transmission belts is comprised of a first fibrous web having minimal warp yarns and filler yarns oriented at a desired right lead. A second fibrous web is provided which has minimal warp yarns and filler yarns oriented at a desired left lead. The first and second fibrous webs are interconnected either mechanically, chemically, or both, so that an angle of between 178.degree. and 60.degree. is formed between the filler yarns of the first fibrous web and the filler yarns of the second fibrous web when viewed in the direction of tension on the power transmission belt. The resulting reinforcing fabric may be formed in the belt direction so that banner cutting is eliminated. This makes it possible to make an endless belt with only one splice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Wellington Sears Company
    Inventor: Donald T. Wall
  • Patent number: 5533941
    Abstract: A belt includes a bilayer of amorphous, synthetic material and a heat fused, resin-impregnated, underlying bilayer of woven fabric. The belt is molded to have a desired profile. The belt avoids loss of tension and exhibits tensile strength along both its length and breadth. A method of manufacture includes molding the layers and profile in a single process in such a way that a single set of molds can be used for molding a desired profile in a belt of a variety of lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Belting Industries Co., Inc.
    Inventor: William D. Heim
  • Patent number: 5529545
    Abstract: A toothed belt (1) having a woven fabric (5) adhered to its meshing face, wherein the woven fabric (5) has longitudinal yarns (9) extending in the longitudinal direction of the toothed belt (1) and formed of covered yarns (15), each of which is prepared by turning a high tensile strength and heat resistance fiber yarn (17) on a core (16) made of an elastic yarn and by further turning a synthetic fiber yarn (18) on the high tensile strength and heat resistant fiber yarn. The high tensile strength and heat resistance fiber yarn (17) is restrained by the covering synthetic fiber yarn (18) so that it does not protrude in the form of large loops, thereby reducing the bulkiness of the woven fabric (5). As a result, the toothed belt is excellent in wear resistance and durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Unitta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Isshiki, Mitsuho Yamada, Yoshiyuki Shiokaramatsu
  • Patent number: 5478638
    Abstract: A reinforced conveyor belt especially suited to transport sharp objects such as glass and scrap metal. The belt has a top and bottom layer of flexible, abrasion-resistant material, such as rubber. There is a middle layer of woven, multi-layered fabric, preferably made of cotton threads with reinforcing rods interwoven therein. The reinforcement rods run transversely and occupy sites in the intermediate layers of the fabric normally occupied by weft threads. Interweaving the layers of fabric and inserting the rod into one of the intermediate fabric layer provides the belt with tensile strength, puncture resistance, and a barrier against longitudinal tearing. Finally, the bottom surface of the belt is textured to provide additional durability and traction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Inventors: Gary B. Springer, John E. Hayes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5447476
    Abstract: A belt construction having opposed inner and outer surfaces with each surface defining a plurality of longitudinally disposed and alternately spaced apart like projections and grooves that are adapted to mesh with a ribbed surface of a pulley, the depth of the grooves of each of the surfaces of the belt construction being substantially less than the approximately 2.4 mm depth of the grooves of a similar belt construction that is adapted to have one of the opposed surfaces thereof mesh with the ribbed surface of the pulley in the same manner as the first mentioned belt construction, the belt construction having a tension section comprising a cushion section and cord member, the cushion section being initially disposed on only one side of the cord member with the cord member thereafter being embedded therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Inventor: Jack D. White, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5429555
    Abstract: An endless flat band has a spirally placed, straight pulling element in the form of a thread or a wire extending in the direction of movement. A transverse connection is generated by loops and at least partially by a binding agent, wherein at least one spiral of the pulling element is inserted into a tubular fabric in the knitting machine. Because the spiral is inserted already straightened into a right/right transfer construction between loops or loops and tuck loops, it is achieved that a symmetrical fabric is made which increases the service life of the flat band and improves the useful properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Max Schlatterer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gerhard Beckh
  • Patent number: 5417618
    Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with a length and inside and outside surfaces. A plurality of teeth are spaced lengthwise along the belt body and define at least a portion of one of the inside and outside surfaces of the belt body. A fabric layer with weft yarns is provided on the one of the inside and outside surfaces of the belt body. At least a portion of the weft yarns include a plurality of filaments of para-aramid fiber having a thickness of 0.3 to 1.2 denier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Osako, Takeshi Murakami, Yasunori Nakai
  • Patent number: 5362281
    Abstract: A toothed belt with a plurality of teeth along one surface of the belt which surface includes a peripheral wear-resistant fabric that is double woven with two sets of warp yarns and two sets of weft yarns that are tied together in a single layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: The Gates Rubber Company
    Inventors: Roger W. Dutton, Douglas A. Conley
  • Patent number: 5171190
    Abstract: A woven fabric for covering a tooth part formed on a belt body of a synchronous belt is woven with a lengthwise yarn and a widthwise yarn. The lengthwise yarn is made of a crimped yarn of synthetic fiber or a covering yarn in which a crimped yarn of synthetic fiber is wound around an elastic cord yarn. The widthwise yarn is made of a spun yarn of synthetic fiber or meta-linked type aromatic polyamide fiber. The widthwise yarn expose more to the woven fabric surface than the lengthwise yarn. Thus, the belt life is lengthened and the noise reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Fujiwara, Susumu Onoe, Michio Tanaka, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Tsutomu Shioyama
  • Patent number: 4891040
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaji Nagai, Hiroyuki Okawa, Takahide Mizuno, Fumihito Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 4883448
    Abstract: A belt including a main body formed in to an endless configuration with a plurality of substantially equally pitched approximately round shafts embedded in the main body. Also included are a plurality of wires engaged along nearly an entire lengthwise portion of each of the shafts. The wires can be interlaced with the shafts or wound on the shafts and the wires cna be a twisted thread of organic fiber, inorganic fiber, or glass fiber. The main body can be made of rubber of high rigity having a longitudinal elastic coefficient of approximately 10-140 kg/mm.sup.2. The main body could also be made of refractory synthetic resin having a longitudinal elastic coefficient of 5-150 kg/mm.sup.2. Each shaft can be of substantially the same diameter along its entire length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kobayashi, Akio Inagaki, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Masanori Mori, Takashi Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 4877126
    Abstract: Filte restproof conveyor belt, which has a high strength, and is particularly suitable for use in coal mines. It includes a matrix of, e.g. rubber having incorporated therein at least one layer of reinforcement fabric extending parallel to the supporting surface and the tread of the belt, the warp of the fabric extending in the longitudinal direction of the belt and including both polyamide and polyester filaments. Filtertestproof qualities are imparted to the belt by using aramid filaments as polyamide warp filaments, and by weaving the fabric in such a way that the yarn-in-fabric take-up of the aramid warp yarns, cords or cables is higher than that of the polyester warp yarns, cords or cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Akzo nv
    Inventors: Freerk R. van Calker, Pieter J. M. Kopmels, Antonius W. M. Ter Burg
  • Patent number: 4861323
    Abstract: A belt including a main body formed into an endless configuration with a plurality of substantially equally pitched approximately round shafts embedded in the main body. Also included are a plurality of wires engaged along nearly an entire lengthwise portion of each of the shafts. The wires can be interlaced with the shafts or wound on the shafts and the wires can be a twisted thread of organic fiber, inorganic fiber, or glass fiber. The main body can be made of rubber of high rigidity having a longitudinal elastic coefficient of approximately 10-140 kg/mm.sup.2. The main body could also be made of refractory synthetic resin having a longitudinal elastic coefficient of 5-150 kg/mm.sup.2. Each shaft can be of substantially the same diameter along its entire length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kobayashi, Akio Inagaki, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Masanori Mori, Takashi Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 4845963
    Abstract: A reinforcing fabric, for power transmission belts, hoses and the like is formed by upper and lower sets of non-interlaced, crossing bias yarns, set at a wide angle, such as 120.degree. during the construction of the fabric. At selected crossing points, bias yarns from the respective sets are engaged by loop portions of longitudinally extending lines of stitching. The yarns are pre-impregnated with an elastomeric or other agent to increase stiffness, prior to the construction of the fabric. The bias yarns may be designed with significantly greater flexibility than with conventional fabrics and with lower twist and higher density than conventional. Many of the labor-intensive operations of conventional reinforcing fabrics are eliminated when using the new fabric. In one version, the longitudinal stitching, securing one set of bias yarns to the other, is melted during the curing process, when the reinforcing material is incorporated into the article to be reinforced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: WestPoint Pepperell, Inc.
    Inventor: Dhan Parekh
  • Patent number: 4832673
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaji Nagai, Nobutaka Ohsako
  • Patent number: 4655734
    Abstract: An endless belt for the power transmission, wherein a plurality of block bodies each comprising a body member formed of a highly rigid material and provided at opposite side portions thereof with inclined surfaces being in frictional engagement with pulleys and a clamp member formed separately of said body member are arranged in a row and adjacent to one another on a belt-shaped endless carrier formed of fabric in such a manner that the endless carrier is clamped between the body members and the clamp members, the endless belt being of such an arrangement that the belt-shaped endless carrier formed of fabric is woven by warps disposed in the longitudinal direction and wefts disposed in the widthwise direction, with the wefts restraining the warps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Susumu Okawa, Yasunobu Jufuku, Shigeru Okuwaki, Takayoshi Kondou, Toshiya Endo, Shigenori Nakata
  • Patent number: 4652252
    Abstract: A toothed belt that has a tensile member of spirally wound cord where the operating pitch line of the belt is at least partially established by the cord which is made by twisting together at least two substantially zero twist, unequal denier yarn ends to form a ply, and twisting at least two of such piles together in the opposite direction to form the cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: The Gates Rubber Company
    Inventors: William L. Westhoff, Roger W. Dutton