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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2002
Paul F. Mastro, Little Rock, AR (US);
Paul F. Mastro, Little Rock, AR (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing on a continuous basis quantities of seamed belts with imageable seams for printing systems from a continuous supply web of belt material, which seamed belts need to be manufactured to a desired circumference and width. In the disclosed embodiment the sides of the incoming supply web are cut in seam-forming mating edges and the web is fed in at an angle to a pair of rollers, at least one of which is tapered, to spirally wrap the web into a cylinder of the desired circumference of the seamed belts and providing mating engagement and gluing of the seam-forming edges. Then by sequentially transversely cutting off cylindrical segments of that spirally formed cylinder into the desired width, multiple seamed belts are formed with both the desired circumference and width.