Patent ID: 7297392

Claim:
In a multi-sided bellows cover of the type that extends between relatively movable parts of a machine to which the bellows is mounted to enclose the space between the movable parts as they move relative to one another, one end of the bellows being affixed to one of the parts and an opposite end of the bellows being affixed to the other of the parts so that the bellows is extended when the parts move relatively apart and the bellows contracts when the parts move relatively together, said bellows substantially enclosing the space between the parts as the parts move relatively together and apart, each side of the bellows including an accordion folded panel, the improvement wherein each said panel includes a plurality of panel sections that are connected to one another by a bead-in-slot connection, and wherein at least some of the panel sections include at least one relatively rigid wall section and at least one relatively flexible web section integrally molded with the wall section.