The Gates Corporation

Nigel Peter Blunsden

Shawn Xiang Wu

Min Gao

Guogong Chen

Cynthia Decker

A toothed power transmission belt with a smooth back side surface has a back jacket on the back side surface; wherein the back jacket comprises a closed-mesh, knit fabric tube. The fabric tube may be knitted on a circular weft knitting machine and may be heat set after knitting. The fabric tube may be treated with an epoxy, RFL or other treatment to provide for oil resistance, adhesion, frictional properties, etc.

Toothed power transmission belt with back fabric

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&#xb0;.

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Dumfries, United Kingdom

Nigel Peter Blunsden