Transport or drive belt and weaving comb suitable for the production thereof

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  "publication_number": "US11585022B2",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B2",
  "title": "Transport or drive belt and weaving comb suitable for the production thereof",
  "abstract": "A transport or drive belt includes: warp threads extending in a longitudinal direction; and weft threads extending between side edges. The weft threads and the warp threads cross each other at least sectionally with a positive inclination or a negative inclination deviating from a right angle. The weft threads follow a wavy course.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A belt device comprising: a support; and a belt disposed on the support and comprising warp threads and weft threads and having a first side edge and second side edge parallel to a longitudinal direction of the belt, wherein the longitudinal direction of the belt corresponds to a direction of movement in a main extension plane of the belt over the support, wherein the warp threads extend in the longitudinal direction and the weft threads extend between the first and second side edges, wherein the weft threads cross the warp threads with a positive inclination or a negative inclination deviating from a right angle relative to the warp threads, and wherein the weft threads follow, in the main extension plane of the belt, a wavy course from the first side edge to the second side edge.",
    "2. The belt device of claim 1, wherein the weft threads have, between the side edges, at least a first region with a positive inclination having a direction component with respect to a direction of movement of the belt and a second region with a negative inclination having a direction component with respect to the direction of movement of the belt.",
    "3. The belt device of claim 1, wherein the weft threads follow a regular wavy course.",
    "4. The belt device of claim 1, wherein the weft threads extend symmetrically with respect to a central longitudinal axis.",
    "5. The belt device of claim 1, wherein the weft threads extend continuously between the side edges.",
    "6. The belt device of claim 1, wherein adjacent weft threads are arranged at a constant distance from each other along an entire width of the belt.",
    "7. The belt device of claim 1, wherein a distance of a weft thread from an adjacent weft thread is smaller than an amplitude of the wavy course of the weft thread.",
    "8. The belt device of claim 7, wherein the distance of at least one weft thread is different from distances of other weft threads.",
    "9. A belt moveable in a longitudinal direction in a main extension plane over a support, the belt comprising: a first side edge and a second side edge, each parallel to the longitudinal direction; warp threads and weft threads crossing each other at right angles, the warp threads and weft threads being connected by a twill weave of a fabric, wherein a negative and/or a positive inclination of a ridge of the twill weave undergoes at least once an inversion along a width of the belt between first and second side edges, and a first side region, a second side region, and a central region of the belt, the central region being disposed between the first side region and the second side region, wherein a length of a float of the warp threads in the longitudinal direction in each of the three regions is different along a latitudinal direction of the belt perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a length of the float of the warp threads in the central region being shorter than a length of the float of the warp threads in either side region, and wherein at least individual adjacent floats have an offset in a direction of a central longitudinal axis, wherein the offset for the individual adjacent floats varies across the latitudinal direction of the belt such that the individually adjacent floats impinge on the support, impingement varying in both a sequence of time and a duration of time."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "The present invention refers to a transport or drive belt having warp threads extending in the longitudinal direction and weft threads extending between the side edges. The invention also refers to a weaving comb, also called a reed, for use in the invention.\n\nSuch transport or drive belts are composed of a textile flat structure formed in particular by a plurality of layers, wherein the layered structure may vary considerably depending on the desired use and the corresponding requirements. A typical structure of such a transport and drive belt comprises the traction member composed of warp and weft threads for transmitting the forces acting during operation, a support layer acting as a support surface for the products to be transported, and a running surface which is used as a contact surface for a support.\n\nEach individual warp thread has to be guided through a heald and through the weaving reed (reed), before it may be woven on the so-called cloth beam of the loom. During weaving, the fabric grows due to the introduction of weft threads at right angles to the warp threads.\n\nThe weft threads are associated to different shafts through the healds, through which they pass. By lifting and lowering the heald shafts, individual warp threads are lifted or lowered, in order to form the shed. The combination of warp threads, which are simultaneously lifted and lowered, as well as the sequence, according to which the different combinations of warp threads are successively lifted or lowered, determines the weave.",
  "cpc": [
    "D03D 13/00",
    "B65G 15/54",
    "D03D 1/0094",
    "D03D 13/004",
    "D03D 49/62"
  ],
  "ipc": [
    "B65G 15/54",
    "D03D 1/00",
    "D03D 13/00",
    "D03D 49/62"
  ],
  "assignees": [
    "Forbo Siegling GmbH"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "Torsten Buch",
    "Neele Neelen",
    "Lennart Schulz"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2016-12-20",
  "publication_date": "2023-02-21",
  "grant_date": "2023-02-21",
  "priority_date": "2016-01-11",
  "application_number": "US-201616068683-A",
  "family_id": "58098582",
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