BELTING AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME

摘要

Belting 10 consisting of 1 compacted non-woven felt fabric 28 embedded in a mtrix of elastomer 12. The belting may be made by saturating a greige non-woven fabric 12 with a liquid, elastomer-forming, polymeric resin 10 and thereafter compacting the saturated fabric to permanently reduce the thickness thereof. Following compaction of the saturated fabric, the liquid resin is solidified and cured. Curing is preferably accomplished at a temperature above ambient and at a pressure above atmospheric. The non-woven felt 12 may be a spun-bonded, needle-punched. or stitch-bonded bat of fibers 15.