And Additional Coating, Layer, Or Reinforcement Of Diverse Kind Of Material Patents (Class 474/268)
  • Patent number: 6086500
    Abstract: A toothed belt with improved durability and low noise level during operation having a foundation fabric 2 adhesive-bonded along the engaging surface 5 thereof, wherein the yarns of said foundation fabric 2 extending in the longitudinal direction of the toothed belt comprise a plurality of false-twisted yarns false-twisted in the same false twist direction; the foundation fabric 2 is formed by weaving said yarns and the yarns crossing said yarns in a double-faced twill pattern and is located where the face of said foundation fabric 2 with fewer of said exposed false-twisted yarns is exposed to the front face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignees: Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd., Unitta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuho Yamada, Atsushi Matsuki, Shigehiro Isshiki, Hiroshi Kida
  • Patent number: 6056656
    Abstract: A V-ribbed belt A is made up of a compression rubber 3, an adhesion rubber 1 laminated to the upper surface of the compression rubber 3, and a plurality of tension members 2 fixed by rubber of the adhesion rubber 1 to be held in place in the adhesion rubber 1 and arranged in the direction of the length of the belt. The upper surface of the adhesion rubber 1 is covered with a covering fabric-rubber composite B. All the rubber sections of the composite B are composed of a rubber compound formed by incorporating 5 to 15 phr of an adhesive prepared by mixing resorcinol or denatured resorcinol with a methylene donor, into H-NBR. The adhesion rubber 1 and the compression rubber 3 are composed of a rubber compound whose principal components are ACSM and carbon for achieving good belt back-face drive in high-temperature environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kitano, Masaaki Ogino
  • Patent number: 6030308
    Abstract: An endless belt particularly adapted for use in high speed power transmission, commonly termed a fan belt, which is particularly adapted to be readily formed on site to any desired length and methods and apparatus for forming the belt. The belt is comprised of an outer length of flexible tear-resistant material having abutting ends so as to form a closed loop and defining an endless channel extending longitudinally therethrough. An inelastic ribbon of flexible tear-resistant material is disposed within the channel and extends about the loop defined by the outer length of material such that the ribbon extends across the abutting ends of the outer length of material and the ends of the reinforcing ribbon are in an abutting relationship within the channel at a location substantially diametrically opposed across the formed loop from the abutting ends of the outer length of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Inventor: Paul Beck
  • Patent number: 6004238
    Abstract: In a V-ribbed belt including short fibers such as carbon fibers in the surfaces of ribs, that is, a contact surface with a pulley, the surfaces of the ribs are coated with a water repellent agent so that the surfaces of the ribs can attain water repellency. Thus, while suppressing performance degradation and increase in manufacturing cost of the belt, the water removing property against water splashed on the belt is improved, so as to prevent slip and an accompanied unpleasant noise from being caused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Kitano, Takayuki Kusano
  • 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: 5907014
    Abstract: Disclosed is an aromatic diisocyanate prepolymer combined with a dibasic ester, preferably a mixed dialkyl ester of adipic, glutaric and succinic acids, which when used with amine or polyol curatives to make solid, non-foamed elastomeric polyurethane and/or polyurethane/urea products reduces viscosity and improves wettability of the castable polyurethane prepolymer without loss of cured physical properties. This improved wettability of the liquid prepolymer is useful for impregnation of fabrics, preferably polyesters, during the manufacture of a polyurethane coated fabric type belting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Uniroyal Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert John Quint
  • Patent number: 5891561
    Abstract: A component for a power transmission belt. The component is a fiber cord that is treated in a first step with at least one of a) an isocyanate compound and b) an epoxy compound such that after the first step the at least one of the isocyanate compound and epoxy compound is present in solid form in an amount equal to 0.5 to 2.0 weight %. The fiber cord is treated after the first step in a second step with an RFL liquid so that the percentage void in the cord, as determined by the following formula, is not greater than 1.5%:percentage void=100.times.A.sub.y /A.sub.x, where A.sub.x is the total surface area of the cord and A.sub.y is the void area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kinoshita, Hitoshi Hasaka
  • Patent number: 5887576
    Abstract: A centrifugal supercharger is disclosed that includes an internal drive mechanism which embodies the present invention. A pair of sprockets are connected to parallel input and output drive shafts and drivingly connected by a taut, high tension, endless cog-belt seated and running on the two sprockets. A plurality of belt stabilizing components are incorporated therein to provide maintenance-free, low-temperature operation of the drive mechanism. These stabilizing components include air ducts formed in the output sprocket, tensioning members formed in the belt, heat-resistant and high-speed ceramic ball bearings and shock absorbing springs that alone and in combination provide a highly efficient drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Inventors: Floyd James Wheeler, Jr., Floyd James Wheeler, III
  • Patent number: 5853849
    Abstract: A belt for conveying articles, which belt has a body having a surface against which articles are placed to be frictionally held and thereby conveyed as the belt is advanced in operation. The belt body surface is defined by rubber and a porous filler in the rubber. The porous filler is present in the rubber in an amount of at least 5 parts by weight of porous filler per 100 parts by weight of rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishio, Kazutoshi Ishida
  • 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: 5807194
    Abstract: A synchronous power transmission belt with a belt body of cast urethane belt material, belt teeth formed of the body, a wear-resistant fabric reinforcement disposed along peripheral surfaces of the belt teeth, and a tensile member of helically spiraled cord embedded in the belt body and of a yarn of carbon fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: The Gates Corporation
    Inventors: Paul S. Knutson, Walter L. Dodson
  • Patent number: 5802839
    Abstract: An endless power transmission belt construction, cord therefor and methods of making the same are provided, the cord having the yarns and the plies thereof respectively twisted on a 2 for 1 twister so as to cause the longitudinal axes of the fiber filaments to be disposed generally in the longitudinal direction of the cord with the denier of the fiber filaments of each yarn being approximately 1500. The twist multiplier of three plies is 3.7687 as the plies are twisted together at a rate of approximately 2.9 turns per linear inch of the cord, and the twist multiplier for the two yarns is 3.6765 as the two yarns for each ply are twisted together at a rate of approximately 4.9 turns per linear inch of that ply. The twist multiplier for five plies is 3.6986 as the plies are twisted together at a rate of approximately 1.8 turns per linear inch of the cord, and the twist multiplier for three yarns is 3.5838 as the three yarns for each ply are twisted together at a rate of approximately 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Dayco Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Van Hook
  • 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: 5779584
    Abstract: A V-ribbed belt applicable to back-face drive includes, as a belt body, an adhesion rubber layer having a rectangular section and extending in the longitudinal direction of the belt, a compression rubber layer disposed on the inner face of the adhesion rubber layer, an upper fabric layer disposed on the back face of the adhesion rubber layer as a peelable layer, and cords disposed within the adhesion rubber layer, and a mark indicating a manufacture lot number and the like is disposed on the back side of the belt body. Specifically, the mark is sandwiched between the adhesion rubber layer and the upper fabric layer. As a result, a level difference derived from the mark on the back side of the belt body is suppressed, so as to prevent a noise in driving the belt. In addition, the mark can be prevented from erasing in driving the belt on its back face. In case of necessity, for example, when it is necessary to pursue a lot, the upper fabric layer can be peeled to confirm the mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadahiko Noguchi
  • 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: 5741197
    Abstract: An improvement in a power transmission belt of the type having a body with a length, laterally spaced sides, an inside, an outside, teeth spaced in a lengthwise direction on the inside of the body, grooves between adjacent teeth, and a longitudinally extending load carrying cord. The power transmission belt further has a power transmission area on the body defined between the load carrying cord and a line spaced inside of the load carrying cord a distance approximately 2/3 H, where H is the distance between the load carrying cord and the inside of the body. The invention is also directed to a method of forming the above belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akita, Hiroo Osada
  • Patent number: 5735763
    Abstract: The tension member for a belt of this invention is made from a glass cord. First twist yarns of this glass cord are obtained by paralleling and twisting a plurality of fiber bundles, each including a large number of glass filaments, by a predetermined first twist number. The fiber bundles are previously soaked with a treatment liquid including a mixture of rubber latex and an initial condensation product of resorcinol and formalin as a main component and then heated. The glass cord is fabricated by paralleling a predetermined number of the first twist yarns and twisting them by a predetermined final twist number, so as to squeeze and substantially eliminating spaces among the first twist yarns. Accordingly, the belt including this glass cord as the tension member can achieve good water resistance because externally intruding water is prevented from being held within the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawahara, Masaki Ochiai, Eijiro Nakashima, Yuji Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 5712034
    Abstract: A rubber article has a body consisting of rubber and a reinforcement structure with cables embedded in the rubber body. The cables have at least one inner layer with at least one first filament wherein at least one first filament consists of a metallic alloy. The outermost layer has second filaments embedded adhesively in the rubber body. All of the first and second filaments that consist of a metallic alloy are coated with a corrosion-protective coating. The corrosion-protective coating for at least one of the first filaments consists of an intrinsically conductive polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hendrik Stevens, Bernd Kaiser, Klaus Kleinhoff
  • Patent number: 5653655
    Abstract: A synchronous belt of the present invention has a tension member in the form of a cord, a plurality of teeth fixedly provided on one side of the tension member at set intervals in a longitudinal direction of the belt and a back layer bonded to the other side of the tension member. The back layer and the teeth are formed of urethane elastomer. The tension member is formed of inorganic fibers and is impregnated with a water based latex adhesive. A film of an epoxy adhesive is formed on the surface of the tension member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Onoe, Kaneteru Hasebe, Nobuyuki Kurihara, Keizou Nonaka, Masayuki Fujioka, Yukinori Fujita
  • 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: 5584771
    Abstract: A power transmission belt includes a belt body having a tooth portion and made of a rubber stock of hydrogenated nitrile having a Mooney viscosity at 100.degree. C. of at least 90, whereby the internally generated heat of the belt body during use in a high temperature environment is suppressed. A cashew-modified phenol resin layer is formed at the outermost layer of the cords for bonding with the belt body. The cords are embedded in the longitudinal direction of the belt body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Unitta Company
    Inventors: Shigehiro Isshiki, Masami Sato, Yasuyuki Tatsumi, Yutaka Yoshimi
  • Patent number: 5536214
    Abstract: An improvement in a power transmission belt of the type having a body with a length, laterally spaced sides, an inside, an outside, teeth spaced in a lengthwise direction on the inside of the body, grooves between adjacent teeth, and a longitudinally extending load carrying cord. The power transmission belt further has a power transmission area on the body defined between the load carrying cord and a line spaced inside of the load carrying cord a distance approximately 2/3 H, where H is the distance between the load carrying cord and the inside of the body. The invention is also directed to a method of forming the above belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akita, Hiroo Osada
  • 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: 5531650
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a power transmission belt including a laminate composed of an adhesive rubber layer in which core wires are buried and a compressed rubber layer, to the periphery of which being adhered canvas, characterized in that the above-mentioned canvas is impregnated with an aqueous latex composition comprising 2-chloro-1,3-butadiene-2,3-dichloro-1,3-butadiene copolymer latex. The power transmission belt of the present invention does not necessitate any organic solvents and is excellent in thermal resistance, and especially has great adhesion force between the rubber layers and the canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Azuma
  • 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: 5516391
    Abstract: The present invention provides an endless belt including a reinforcing load-carrying layer which is constituted by an even number of cord-like load-carrying members (5, 6). The load-carrying members extend within the load carrying member having a load-carrying layer in a plurality but at least more than one full turn each. In order to balance unbalanced force components produced by the load-carrying members having a pitch angle, the load-carrying members are arranged in pairs. Each load-carrying member would in one transverse direction has a corresponding load-carrying member wound in the opposite transverse direction within they load-carrying layer. Only within the same longitudinal transition zone (A) of the load-carrying layer the load carrying members form a pitch angle each with respect to the longitudinal direction of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Fenrir AG
    Inventors: Jonathan Schanin, Shmuel Harel
  • Patent number: 5507699
    Abstract: The combination of an endless power transmission belt construction and a pulley therefor, the belt construction and methods of making the same are provided, the 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 the known belt construction that is adapted to have one of the opposed surfaces thereof mesh with the ribbed surface of the pulley, the belt construction also comprising a cushion section and cords with the cushion section being initially disposed on only one side of the cords and the cords thereafter being embedded therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Dayco Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack D. White, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5505667
    Abstract: An endless power transmission belt construction, cord therefor and methods of making the same are provided, the cord having the yarns and the plies thereof respectively twisted on a 2 for 1 twister so as to cause the longitudinal axes of the fiber filaments to be disposed generally in the longitudinal direction of the cord with the denier of the fiber filaments of each yarn being approximately 1500, the twist multiplier for the three plies being 3.7687 as the three plies are twisted together at a rate of approximately 2.9 turns per linear inch of the cord, the twist multiplier for the two yarns being 3.6765 as the two yarns for each ply are twisted together at a rate of approximately 4.9 turns per linear inch of that ply, and the fiber filaments comprising p-aramid that comprises co-poly (paraphenylene/3,4' oxydiphenylene terephthalamide).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1996
    Assignee: Dayco Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Van Hook
  • Patent number: 5501643
    Abstract: A power transmission belt comprised of a belt body having a tooth portion and made of a rubber stock of hydrogenated nitrile having a Mooney viscosity at 100.degree. C. of at least 90, whereby the internally generated heat of the belt body during use in a high temperature environment is suppressed. A cashew-modified phenol resin layer is formed at the outermost layer of the cords for bonding with the belt body. The cords are embedded in the longitudinal direction of the belt body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Unitta Company
    Inventors: Shigehiro Isshiki, Masami Sato, Yasuyuki Tatsumi, Yutaka Yoshimi
  • Patent number: 5498214
    Abstract: In a process for manufacturing toothed belts of any length, a tubular sleeve comprising a layer of cords (1) and at least a layer of elastomeric material (2) is preformed in an autoclave without being vulcanized so as to produce, on the inner surface thereof, a plurality of grooves (5) spaced apart from one another according to a predetermined toothing pitch (P). The sleeve is helically cut to obtain a continuous strip (7) to be subsequently wrapped over two wrapping drums (8, 9) suitably spaced apart from each other depending on the circumferential extension to be given to the belt. The obtained annular element (10), when the wrapping has been completed, is trued up by means of the provided grooves, between a molding matrix (11) and opposite mould (12) and is submitted to a pressing step and simultaneous cross-linking of the elastomeric material (2) by closing said elastomeric material between the molding matrix (11) and opposite mold (12) according to stages in succession.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Pirella Transmissioni Industriali S.p.A.
    Inventors: Vincenzo Macchiarulo, Tommaso Di Giacomo, Danilo Di Cesare, Marino Petaccia
  • Patent number: 5484343
    Abstract: A power transmission belt having a belt body with a length, an inside, an outside and laterally spaced side surfaces and reinforcing fabric on at least one of the inside and outside of the body. The reinforcing fabric is formed from first yarns including a mixture of polymethaphenylene isophthalamide fibers and polyethylene terephthalate fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Nakajima, Takashi Kinoshita, Arata Hasegawa, Yoshiaki Onaka
  • 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: 5458544
    Abstract: Anti-wear properties and tooth life in a toothed belt are improved by taking advantage of heat hardening of a treating agent used to treat the tooth cloth. The tooth cloth is treated with a resorcinol formaldehyde latex solution containing a mixture, at a weight ratio from 1:5 to 1:15, of a resorcinol formaldehyde solution containing resorcinol and formaldehyde at a molecular ratio from 1:1 to 1:3 and a latex solution containing carboxyl modified nitrile butadiene rubber and carboxyl modified hydrogenated nitrile rubber at a weight ratio from 4:6 to 1:9, and further containing carbon at a weight ratio of 1 to 10%. The solid content adhering onto the tooth cloth is from 5 to 30 weight %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Toru Fujiwara, Yoshinori Itoh
  • Patent number: 5425681
    Abstract: An endless power transmission belt construction, cord therefor and methods of making the same are provided, the cord having the yarns and the plies thereof respectively twisted on a 2 for 1 twister so as to cause the longitudinal axes of the fiber filaments to be disposed generally in the longitudinal direction of the cord with the denier of the fiber filaments of each yarn being approximately 1500, the twist multiplier for the three plies being 3.7687 as the three plies are twisted together at a rate of approximately 2.9 turns per linear inch of the cord, the twist multiplier for the two yarns being 3.6765 as the two yarns for each ply are twisted together at a rate of approximately 4.9 turns per linear inch of that ply, and the fiber filaments comprising p-aramid that comprises co-poly(paraphenylene/3,4' oxydiphenylene terephthalamide).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Dayco Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Van Hook
  • Patent number: 5415594
    Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with a compression section and a length. A first plurality of short fibers is embedded in the compression section of the body aligned to be substantially parallel to the length of the belt. A second plurality of short fibers is embedded in the compression section of the body and aligned to be transverse to the length of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Inventors: Koji Kitahama, Masahiko Kawashima, Kyoichi Mishima
  • Patent number: 5413538
    Abstract: A power transmission belt having a belt body with a length and laterally oppositely facing pulley engaging side surfaces. A first plurality of short fibers, made from a first material, is embedded in the belt body and extends substantially in a lateral direction. A second plurality of short fibers, made from a second material, is embedded in the belt body and extends substantially in a lateral direction. A plurality of the short fibers made from the first material project laterally from at least one of the pulley engaging side surfaces on the belt body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyoichi Mishima
  • Patent number: 5409557
    Abstract: A seamless intermediate transfer member has a reinforcing member in an endless configuration, a filler material such as a polymer and electrical property regulating material to regulate the electrical properties such as surface and bulk resistivity, dielectric constant and charge dissipation. The seamless intermediate transfer member also has good mechanical properties. The reinforcing member can be prepared by any suitable method such as by weaving. Filler material and electrical regulating material can be applied on, around or embedded into the reinforcing member. The member can be employed in an electrostatographic imaging system with more than one toner imaging station. The member can pick up a separate image from each individual imaging station and transfer the combined image to a suitable substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Mammino, Donald S Sypula, John S. Berkes, Edward L. Schlueter, Jr., Gerald M. Fletcher, Frank J. Bonsignore, Shy-Shung Hwang, Donald J. Robertson, Allen W. Denham, Paul J. Brach, Dennis A. Abramsohn
  • Patent number: 5392831
    Abstract: A toothed belt construction formed mainly of thermoplastic material and method of making the same are provided, the method including the steps of disposing at least one layer of the thermoplastic material about the outer peripheral surface of a building drum that has the outer peripheral surface thereof defined by alternating teeth and grooves, and then forcing the one layer of thermoplastic material toward the drum while the temperature of the one layer of thermoplastic material is above its softening temperature and below its melting temperature so as to cause at least part of the one layer of thermoplastic material to exude into the grooves to form at least part of the plurality of teeth of the belt construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Dayco Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Danny L. Thomas, Clinton L. Bishop
  • Patent number: 5382200
    Abstract: A belt which prevents generation of cracks and noises at a joint part of a canvas. Tooth faces of tooth parts of a synchronous belt are covered with the canvas. A warp yarn of the canvas is such formed that a necessary number of spun yarns or filament yarns are gathered and given a final twist at many twisting times of 1000-3000 per meter. The warp yarns of the canvas is so composed that a first pair of warp yarns made of an S twist yarn and a Z twist yarn and a second pair of warp yarns made of a Z twist yarn and an S twist yarn are arranged alternately in a belt-width direction. A weft yarn of the canvas is composed of well known spun yarns or filament yarns. The canvas is woven by the warp yarns and the weft yarns and shrunk in hot water so as to stretch in a belt-length direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kanji Kimoto
  • Patent number: 5378206
    Abstract: A toothed rubber belt has teeth, a rubber back and a core wire imbedded in the rubber back. The core wire has lower twists of about 10.5 to about 13.5 times/10 cm and an upper twist of about 6.5 to about 9.5 times/10 cm. Preferably, the wire core is made of glass having a construction of ECG 150 3/6 to 3/13. The core wire having the specified number of twists improves the physical properties of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahide Mizuno, Nobutaka Osako, Takeshi Murakami, Satoshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 5351530
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for carrying out the checking of the state of wear of a covering fabric in a driving belt (2) mounted on a plurality of pulleys (3, 4, 5) by measuring the electric resistance variations of the belt fabric. The apparatus provides that at least two of the pulleys (3, 4, 5) should be electrically insulated with respect to each other and connected to an electric circuit (20) designed to apply an electric voltage to said pulleys in order to carry out the measuring of the electric resistance of the fabric exhibited by belt stretches (A, B) comprised between the pulleys themselves. The electric resistance thus found lends itself to be compared with predetermined resistance values corresponding to different states of wear of the belt (2) fabric. The work surface of the belt (2) is coated with an electrically conductive fabric (12) acting by contact on the pulleys (3, 4, 5) and having characteristics of tensile strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Pirelli Trasmissioni Industriali S.p.A.
    Inventors: Vincenzo Macchiarulo, Tommaso DiGiacomo
  • Patent number: 5346731
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced rubber article has a rubber body portion with a fiber reinforcement embedded therein. The fiber reinforcement includes a plurality of tubular braided cords braided by yarns. Each of the tubular braided cords is braided by more than three yarns at a braid angle in a range between 10.degree. and 35.degree., wherein said braid angle is an angle between a yarn of the tubular braided cord and the axial line of the tubular braided cord. Each tubular braided cord also has a fistulous center hole defined by the tubular braided cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 5342252
    Abstract: Resistance to tooth chipping in toothed belt in which rubber teeth are covered by a tooth cloth, is improved by providing for residual elongation of the tooth cloth so that it does not float or separate from the rubber teeth when tooth-deforming forces are applied, and by providing the tooth cloth with sufficient breaking strength so that the product of its breaking strength and its elongation are at least equal to a specified value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Toru Fujiwara, Yoshinori Itoh
  • Patent number: 5298956
    Abstract: A seamless intermediate transfer member has a reinforcing member in an endless configuration, a filler material such as a polymer and electrical property regulating material to regulate the electrical properties such as surface and bulk resistivity, dielectric constant and charge dissipation. The seamless intermediate transfer member also has good mechanical properties. The reinforcing member can be prepared by any suitable method such as by weaving. Filler material and electrical regulating material can be applied on, around or embedded into the reinforcing member. The member can be employed in an electrostatographic imaging system with more than one toner imaging station. The member can pick up a separate image from each individual imaging station and transfer the combined image to a suitable substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Mammino, Donald S. Sypula, John S. Berkes, Edward L. Schlueter, Jr., Gerald M. Fletcher, Frank J. Bonsignore, Shy-Shung Hwang, Donald J. Robertson, Allen W. Denham, Paul J. Brach, Dennis A. Abramsohn
  • Patent number: 5284456
    Abstract: An endless power transmission belt has an elastomeric body portion, load carrying members embedded in the body portion, and a power transmitting surface integral with the body portion. The elastomeric body portion further includes material to mitigate unstable frictional behavior of the body portion responsible for initiating self-excited vibration at the power-transmitting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: The Gates Rubber Company
    Inventors: John E. Connell, Vicki C. Copeland, Herbert H. Frost
  • Patent number: 5244436
    Abstract: A power transmission V-belt having a plurality of longitudinally extending load-carrying/tensile cords embedded in an adhesive rubber layer, a compression section having a plurality of laterally extending cords embedded in a second rubber layer, and a reinforcing rubber layer interposed between the adhesive rubber layer and the laterally extending cords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomomitu Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 5242743
    Abstract: A rubber having fiber reinforcement embedded thereon. The reinforcement comprises a cylindrically braided cords of more than four and even numbered twisted yarns. Yarns are right twist oriented and left twist oriented and they are twisted in the reverse direction in an, S-twist and a Z-twist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nakanishi, Susumu Onoe, Toru Kusakabe, Hiroshi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 5234387
    Abstract: A toothed belt comprises an organic peroxide crosslinked hydrogenated nitrile rubber composition, having a co-crosslinking agent comprising N, N'-phenylene dimaleimide in combination with at least one substance from the group consisting of a higher ester of an organic acid, a metal salt of acrylic acid and a metal salt of methacrylic acid. The belt is characterized by excellent heat resistance and resistance to tooth slippage at higher temperatures under higher loads, and is useful as the toothed belt in a camshaft drive for high performance automobile engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Toru Fujiwara, Yoshinori Ito
  • Patent number: 5232409
    Abstract: A power transmission belt having a tension section and a compression section, with at least a portion of one of the tension and compression sections being formed from rubber of a first color. A rubber coated canvas covers at least a part of at least one of the tension and compression sections including the portion of the one of the tension and compression sections having the first color. The rubber in the rubber coated canvas has a second color that is different than the first color. A rubber layer having a third color is interposed between the portion of the one of the tension and compression sections and the rubber coated canvas. The third color is substantially the same as the second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Kanamori, Koichi Nakagawa, Eiichi Takami
  • Patent number: RE36870
    Abstract: A .Iadd.cord and fabric for a .Iaddend.power transmission belt comprised of a belt body having a tooth portion and made of a rubber stock of hydrogenated nitrile having a Mooney viscosity at 100.degree. C. of at least 90, whereby the internally generated heat of the belt body during use in a high temperature environment is suppressed. A cashew-modified phenol resin layer is formed at the outermost layer of the cords .Iadd.and fabric .Iaddend.for bonding with the belt body. The cords are embedded in the longitudinal direction of the belt body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Unittta Company
    Inventors: Shigehiro Isshiki, Masami Sato, Yasuyuki Tatsumi, Yutaka Yoshimi