Patent ID: 6358347
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: B23K,B29C,B29D,B29L,F16G,Y10T

Abstract:
An improved method of manufacturing large quantities of seamed belts with imageable seams for printing systems, wherein said seamed belts have a predetermined defined circumference and a predetermined width, from a predetermined belt material available in a large roll thereof, comprising:feeding a continuous web of said belt material from said large roll in a defined web width that is at least as wide as said predetermined defined circumference of said seamed belts, feeding said continuous web of said defined width belt material to a seam cutting station, cutting in said seam cutting station the opposing side edges of said continuous web of belt material into opposing seam-forming mating edge patterns, wrapping said opposing side edges of said continuous web of belt material together on a mandrel surface while said continuous web of belt material is moving, mating said opposing mating edge patterns together to form a belt seam in a moving tube of said continuous web of belt material, adhesively sealing said belt seam, and sequentially intermittently transversely cutting off increments of said moving tube of said continuous web of belt material to said predetermined width of said seamed belt to form said seamed belts with said predetermined defined circumference and said predetermined width.