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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
The Gates Corporation, Denver, CO (US);
John Graeme Knox, Oxford, MI (US);
Lambert Pasch, Roetgen, DE;
Mark William Scharr, Deerfield, NH (US);
The Gates Corporation, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
A system and method of making an open-ended, reinforced, layered belt having a profile layer, a top layer material, and tensile cords fully encapsulated there between. The method includes engaging portion of the profile layer on a rotatable cylindrical mandrel with an engaging roller, disengaging with a take-off roller, and applying and fusing the cords to the profile layer at a desired cord spacing there between. The cord may be fused by melting the profile layer surface with a heated plow and/or with heated cord. The cord is then covered with the top layer material in a lamination step involving heating to melt at least a portion of the top layer and pressing it to fuse it to the reinforced profile layer. Lamination may be done downstream or directly on the mandrel.