Patent ID: 6986938

Claim:
In a multi-sided bellows cover for extending between relatively movable parts of a machine to which the bellows is mounted, one end of said bellows being affixed to one of said parts and an opposite end of said bellows being affixed to the other said part so that the bellows is extended when said parts move relatively apart and said bellows contracts when said parts move relatively together, said bellows having sides substantially enclosing the space between said parts as said 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 relatively rigid wall sections spaced apart by a plurality of web sections which relative to said wall sections are flexible, wherein each said web section is integrally molded with a longitudinal edge of at least one wall section and wherein at least two adjacent sides of said bellows have corners between adjacent sides of the bellows and the corners are formed by a web of flexible material which is affixed to each of the sides, wherein at least some of the web sections and adjacent wall sections are connected by a bead-in-slot connection.