Albany International Corporation

Joseph D Lanthier

Michael J Josef

A corrugator belt for a corrugator machine includes a base having two sides. One of the two sides is the face side of the corrugator belt when the belt is in the form of an endless loop on a corrugator machine. A layer of polymeric resin material is coated onto the face side of the base. The polymeric resin material provides the corrugator belt with an increased coefficient of friction relative to corrugated board, enabling the belt to pull corrugated board more readily through a corrugator machine.

Coated corrugator belt

An impermeable corrugator belt for a corrugator machine includes a multi-layer base fabric having a layer of a polymeric resin material on one of its two sides. When arranged in the form of an endless loop, the side having the layer of polymeric resin material is on the inside thereof. The polymeric resin material renders the corrugator belt impermeable, and therefore suitable for use on a corrugator machine having air-bearing pressure zones. Instead of a multi-layer base fabric, a spiral coil carrier may be used as the base of the corrugator belt.

Impermeable corrugator belt for application on air bearing pressure zones of a corrugator machine

The disclosure is of a seam construction for multilayered corrugator belts. The construction comprises woven complementary seam-halves joined by pintles and in which each seam-half comprises 2 connectors, each being a single and a double layer zone mechanically bound by the nature of the weave and in which the crosswise yarns of each connector form alternately displaced loops on one edge thereof which can be intermeshed with like loops formed on the edge of the opposite connector. The connectors are attached to a step in each end of the multilayered corrugator belt.

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Joseph D Lanthier