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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2001
Frederic Pember Andresen, Dublin, OH (US);
Jenny Zhaoxia Yu, Dublin, OH (US);
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
An improved agricultural belting ( ) formed of multiple fabric by layers ( or ), interposing rubber layers ( ) and rubber cover layers ( ). The fabric plies are a woven of warp yarns ( ) extending in the longitudinal direction of the belt ( ) and fill yarns ( ) extending in the transverse direction of the belt ( ). To optimize the transverse stiffness of the belting and other properties of the belt, any of the fabric plies ( , or ) are formed with selective replacement of the multifilament fill yarns ( ) with monofilament cords ( ). The fabric ply ( , or ) formed with monofilament cords ( ) has at most fifty percent monofilament fill cords ( ).