Patent ID: 7365463

Claim:
A belted motor, comprising: a driven flexor belt under tension from a first direction and connected to a load; a stator, including: a driver mounted to repetitively reciprocatively deflect the flexor belt by a certain amount in a second direction transverse to the first direction; a first brake and a second brake acting directly on the flexor belt with the driver therebetween, the first brake that, when operationally configured, is positioned to clamp the flexor belt at a first point and with the second brake being released permits motion of the flexor belt when the driver deflects the flexor belt and wherein; the second brake when operationally configured, is positioned to clamp the flexor belt at a second point when the first brake is released permits motion of the flexor belt in the first direction when the driver no longer deflects the flexor belt, the first and second brakes having means for operating alternately to provide repetitive incremental motion to the driven flexor belt and to the load corresponding to the certain amount of repetitive reciprocative deflection of the flexor belt.