FLEXIBLE BELT WITH SKEWED SEAM CONFIGURATION

摘要

A flexible electrostatographic imaging belt comprising a support layer, a coating including a film forming polymer, and a permanent skewed seam. The electrostatographic imaging belt may be fabricated by providing a sheet having a parallelogram shape with slanted ends, the sheet having a first major exterior surface opposite and parallel to a second major exterior surface, overlapping an edge of the first major exterior surface adjacent a first of the slanted ends onto an edge of the second major exterior surface of adjacent a second slanted of the ends to form a skewed seam, and securing the ends to each other to form a permanent skewed seam. This skewed seam electrostatographic imaging belt may be used in an eledrostatographic imaging process.