Patent ID: 8783448

Claim:
A conveyor belt having knit fabric suited for conveying paper, sheets or objects by virtue of air permeability by suction of air, comprising: weft knit fabric; yarn, which forms the conveyor belt, includes a filament that is synthetic continuous fiber; the filament of the yarn is mutually intertwined to form a knit pattern having mesh loops such that pitch of the mesh loops formed in a stitch direction which is a width direction is smaller than pitch of the mesh loops formed in a gauge direction which is a conveying direction; a state is maintained in which the mutually contacting mesh loops are deformed and the filament of the mesh loops are entangled so as to increase the strength in the conveying direction as a result of the mutual intertwining of the filament thereby increasing the strength and preventing fraying of yarn filament at belt side ends during conveying by the conveyor belt.