Patent ID: 7971687

Claim:
An elevator belt for supporting weight associated with an elevator car and at least partially wrapping about a sheave that moves to cause movement of the elevator car, comprising: a plurality of cords aligned generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the belt, the cords being adapted to support the weight associated with the elevator car, the cords being spaced apart from each other in a width direction across the belt; and a jacket over the cords, the jacket including a plurality of V-shaped grooves on at least one surface of the jacket that extends across the width direction of the belt and is adapted to contact the sheave, each groove having only two portions each at an oblique angle relative to the belt axis, the portions each having one end at an edge of the jacket and an opposite end at a middle region of the at least one surface, with the opposite ends of the portions intersecting each other at an angle to form a peak of the V-shape, the two portions of each groove together extending across the entire one surface in the width direction of the belt, the grooves being spaced apart such that adjacent grooves are on opposite sides of a longitudinal position on the belt, the jacket comprising an uninterrupted surface across an entire spacing between each one of the V-shaped grooves and a next one of the V-shaped grooves longitudinally adjacent the one of the V-shaped grooves, the uninterrupted surface having a first surface edge consisting of only two segments at an edge of the one of the V-shaped grooves and a second surface edge consisting of only two segments at an edge of the next one of the V-shaped grooves, the first surface edge and the second surface edge being parallel to each other along an entire length of the edges, the first surface edge and the second surface edge being oriented the same as each other in a longitudinal direction along the belt.