Patent ID: 6604565
Filing Date: 2003-08-12
Classification: B23K,B29C,B29D,B29L,F16G,Y10T

Abstract:
An improved system for manufacturing large quantities of seamed belts with imageable seams for printing systems, wherein said manufactured seamed belts have a predetermined defined circumference and a predetermined width, from a belt material which is available in a large continuous web roll with opposing side edges, comprising:a seam cutting station, a web feeding system for feeding a continuous web of said belt material from said large roll to said seam cutting station in a defined web width between said opposing side edges that is at least as wide as said predetermined defined circumference of said seamed belts, said seam cutting station cutting said opposing side edges of said continuous web of belt material into opposing seam-forming mating edge patterns, a web wrapping system including a mandrel surface for wrapping said opposing side edges of said continuous web of belt material together on said mandrel surface while said continuous web of belt material is moving thereon, a seam mating system for mating said opposing mating edge patterns together to form a belt seam in a moving tube of said continuous web of belt material, an adhesive applicator system for adhesively sealing said moving belt seam, and a web tube cutting system for 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.