Bando Chemical Industries, Inc.

Yoshitaka Tajima

Takamitsu Akashi

Tsutomu Shioyama

Arao Umeda

Kazuyoshi Tani

Masaaki Ogino

Hirotaka Hatai

Kanji Kimoto

Shizuaki Tsuruta

Yuji Takahara

Yasuhiro Jinnai

Sizuaki Tsuruta

Shigenori Noguchi

In a power transmission belt the outer periphery or the inner periphery of which is covered with a cover fabric, the cover fabric is cylindrically formed of a plurality of fabric pieces joined one to another, one of joint sections of the cover fabric has a lap joint structure that adjacent fabric pieces are lap joined at corresponding ends thereof, and the other one or more joint sections of the cover fabric each have a butt joint structure that adjacent fabric pieces are butt seamed at corresponding ends thereof.

Power transmission belt and method of fabricating the same

A top fabric is laminated with an adhesion rubber sheet made of an unvulcanized rubber sheet, which is located on the upper side from a cord of an adhesion rubber layer and forms an upper rubber portion of the adhesion rubber layer, thereby forming a band-shaped laminate. Both longitudinal ends of the band-shaped laminate are butt-jointed with each other so as to produce no level difference at the top surface of the top fabric and at the bottom surface of the adhesion rubber sheet. Thereby, the cord wound around the laminate in the subsequent step is embedded in the adhesion rubber layer without being displaced in level so that the obtained V-ribbed belt produces no abnormal vibration and no noise even if used in serpentine drive.

Method of producing power transmission belt

Power transmission belt and method of manufacturing the same

Power transmission belt and method of producing the same

A method and a device for joining rubber sheets. A pressing disk having a shape that a cutting disk is cut at an edge thereof by about 0.7 mm to 1.0 mm joins with pressure edge parts of unvulcanized rubber sheets which are stackably aligned with one another and clamped. The cutting disk cuts the joined edge parts of the rubber sheets. Another pressing disk having a shape that the edge of the cutting disk is cut by about 0.7 mm to 1.0 mm is moved on the cut edge parts along the cutting line in the same manner as the cutting disk, thereby securely joining the joined parts by pressing them again.

Rubber sheet joining method and rubber sheet joining device

An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a fiber reinforced elastic sheet by extruding and processing an elastomer containing staples by 25 volume % or less. The apparatus includes a flow adjustment portion provided in a flow path direction of the elastomer for insuring a uniform flow of the elastomer in a sheet width direction. A weir portion is provided on the downstream side of the flow adjustment portion. A clearance Wo of an outlet in the vertical direction of the sheet, a clearance Wi formed by the weir portion in the vertical direction of the sheet and a distance l between the weir portion and the outlet have the relationship of

Apparatus for manufacturing fiber reinforced elastic sheet

A tubular extruder for extruding an elastomeric material mixed with short fibers into a tubular form, with the short fibers circumferentially oriented, a cutter for axially cutting the tubular elastomer, and a development unit for developing the tubular elastomer with a longitudinal slit into a flat form are provided. Arranged between the extruder and the cutter is a guide unit used to guide the tubular elastomer with the help of its tubular section. Air is blown off from the tubular section of the guide unit whereby the tubular elastomer is cooled while at the same time its shrinkage in the circumferential direction is suppressed. The ununiformity of shrinkage is avoidable and the disorientation of short fibers is prevented. Further, the occurrence of flare is prevented by adjusting the tilt angle of the development unit so as to make a distance from a cut point to each lateral edge point at which the tubular elastomer begins to develop into a flat form equal to a distance from a particular point on the circumference of the tubular elastomer opposite the cut point to a middle end point of the tubular elastomer at which the tubular elastomer begins to develop into a flat form.

Apparatus for making sheet elastomers mixed with short fibers

A canvas-rubber complex provided on an upper face of a tension rubber on a back side of V-ribbed belt is composed of a covering canvas, impregnation rubber with which the covering canvas is impregnated, an outer rubber layer which is applied to a first face of the covering canvas which is located on the back face's side of the belt, an inner rubber layer which is applied to a second face of the covering canvas which is the back of the first face, and an adhesion rubber layer disposed on a side of the inner rubber layer for adhering the canvas-rubber complex to the upper face of the tension rubber. Among the rubber elements excepting the adhesion rubber layer, at least the outer rubber layer is formed of a rubber composition including as main ingredients thereof CR polymer, hard carbon and conductive carbon.

Canvas-rubber complex, V-ribbed belt using it and method of producing

A method for manufacturing a fiber reinforced elastic sheet by extruding and processing an elastomer containing staples by 25 volume % or less. The elastomer, which uniformly flows in a sheet width direction, passes through a slight clearance of a molding die in the vertical direction of the sheet, and then the elastomer flow is enlarged in the vertical direction of the sheet. A flow adjustment portion is provided in a passage of the elastomer to flow uniformly in the sheet width direction, and a weir portion is provided on the downstream side of the flow adjustment portion. A clearance Wo of an outlet in the vertical direction of the sheet, a clearance Wi formed by the weir portion in the vertical direction of the sheet and a distance l between the weir portion and the outlet have the relationship of

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Kobe, Japan

Yoshitaka Tajima