Elastic crawler and method of producing the same

摘要

An elastic crawler including a crawler body (6) made of a rubbery elastic material in a form of an endless belt, and a tension cord (10) being buried in the crawler body (6) along the circumferential direction A thereof and having opposite ends (10a),(10b) which are joined together by overlapping one upon the other so as to arrange the tension cord (10) as an endless cord having an overlapped joint portion (12). The overlapped joint portion (12) of the tension cord (10) is formed into an arcuate shape protruding on the outer circumferential side of the crawler.