Patent ID: 7776187

Claim:
An on-machine seamable industrial belt comprising: a base structure comprising: a plurality of machine-direction (MD) extending members; and a plurality of cross-machine-direction (CD) extending members interconnected with said plurality of MD-extending members; a layer of impregnating material forming an encapsulated base structure; said encapsulated base structure having first and second complementary inter-connectable end regions forming a non-linear seam; each of said end regions comprising a plurality of CD-spaced-apart, MD-extending projections; a plurality of parallel CD-extending tubular pathways within each of said projections, each of the tubular pathways adapted to receive a CD-extending member; a plurality of said CD-extending members of the base structure being positioned along the belt beyond said end regions; successive ones said CD-extending members within respective successive ones of said tubular pathways being spaced apart a distance equal to a spacing between successive pairs of said plurality of CD-extending members of the base structure positioned along the belt beyond said end regions.