Tsubakimoto Chain Company

Tooru Fujiwara

Kazuo Kimura

Norio Harada

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Yoshinori Itou

Mitsuo Kasahara

A skew-toothed belt includes tension members, a tooth portion, and a back portion. The tooth portion and the back portion are located on opposite sides of an array of the tension members. The tooth portion is covered with a tooth cloth, which is arranged such that the weft thread extends substantially perpendicular to the tooth trace direction of each skewed tooth. A method for manufacturing the skew-toothed belt includes the steps of: cutting an elongated tooth cloth material obliquely to the weft direction so as to obtain a tooth cloth sheet; bonding the opposite end portions of the tooth cloth sheet extending along the warp together to form a cylindrical tooth cloth; fitting the cylindrical tooth cloth onto a cylindrical die on which tooth-profiled grooves are formed; sequentially winding the tension members and an unvulcanized rubber compound sheet onto the fitted cylindrical tooth cloth; subjecting the resultant assembly to forming and vulcanization in a pressure chamber; and cutting the resultant cylindrical body into annular toothed belts, each having a predetermined width.

Skew-toothed belt and method for manufacturing the same

A toothed belt having an endless rubber band formed with projecting tooth portions, the rubber band having tension members buried in parallel therein. A cloth cover is fastened to the toothed surface of the band. The cloth is formed of woven fibers, and one of the warp and woof fibers of the cloth has a high-adhesive characteristic, and has a greater exposed surface area on one side of the cloth, which side is fastened to the toothed surface. The other of the warp and woof is formed of a fiber having properties suited for the working environment, such as properties of abrasion resistance and low friction, these latter fibers having a greater exposed area on the other side of the cloth, which other side is positioned for engagement with a toothed pulley.

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Saitama-ken, Japan

Tooru Fujiwara