Weed seeds are destroyed in the chaff from a combine harvester by repeated high speed impacts caused by a rotor mounted in one of a pair of side by side housings which accelerate the discarded seeds in a direction centrifugally away from the rotor onto a stator including angularly adjustable stator surfaces around the axis. The weed seed destructor is driven with a straw management system from an output shaft of the combine harvester so that the full power required for both passes through a belt which includes more than four longitudinally extending v-belt ribs and reinforcing cords located in a base band above the ribs at uniformly spaced positions across the width of the belt so that a replacement drive pulley on the output shaft has a width not significantly greater than a conventional output pulley which it replaces.

A composite comprises: at least one reinforcing element (10), an adhesive layer (14) made from an adhesive composition and coating the reinforcing element (10), an elastomeric bonding layer (16) made from an elastomeric bonding composition and directly coating the adhesive layer (14), and an elastomeric body made from an elastomeric matrix and embedded in which is the reinforcing element (10) coated with the adhesive layer (14) and with the elastomeric bonding layer (16). The adhesive composition comprises a phenol-aldehyde resin based: on an aromatic polyphenol comprising at least one aromatic ring bearing at least two hydroxyl functions in the meta position relative to one another, the two positions ortho to at least one of the hydroxyl functions being unsubstituted; and on an aromatic aldehyde bearing an aldehyde function, comprising at least one aromatic ring.

A composite comprises: at least one reinforcing element (10), an adhesive layer (14) made from an adhesive composition and coating the reinforcing element (10), an elastomeric bonding layer (16) made from an elastomeric bonding composition and directly coating the adhesive layer (14), and an elastomeric body made from an elastomeric matrix and embedded in which is the reinforcing element (10) coated with the adhesive layer (14) and with the elastomeric bonding layer (16). The adhesive composition comprises a phenol-aldehyde resin based: on an aromatic polyphenol comprising at least one aromatic ring bearing at least two hydroxyl functions in the meta position relative to one another, the two positions ortho to at least one of the hydroxyl functions being unsubstituted; and on an aromatic aldehyde bearing an aldehyde function, comprising at least one aromatic ring.

belts and methods of manufacturing the same are described herein. The belt generally includes a base layer having a plurality of surface features (e.g., ribs or teeth) formed on a front surface of the base layer, and a stretched surface layer disposed on and conforming to the surface features. The stretched surface layer may comprise a knit fabric material that is from about 3 to about 10 wt. % elastomeric fiber or yarn and from about 90 to about 97 wt. % non-elastomeric yarn or fiber. The stretched surface layer is stretched over the front surface of the base layer such that the surface density of the stretched surface layer on the front surface is from about 100 to about 150 g/m.sup.2. Manufacturing methods for producing the belt with stretched surface layer generally includes disposing the surface layer on a planar front surface of the base layer and pressing a mold into the front surface of the base layer to thereby form a plurality of surface features in the front surface of the base layer. The molding step is carried out such that surface density of the surface layer on the front surface is in the range of from about 100 to about 150 g/m.sup.2 and such that the surface layer is stretched in at least two directions.

A core wire for a power-transmission belt includes a plied twisted cord formed by putting together and secondary twisting a plurality of primary twisted yarns. The primary twisted yarns include a plurality of hard primary twisted yarns (A) and one soft primary twisted yarn (B). The hard primary twisted yarns (A) include an aramid fiber, and a fineness of each hard primary twisted yarn (A) is 1500 dtex or less. The soft primary twisted yarn (B) includes a low elastic modulus fiber. A ratio (B/A) of a primary twist coefficient of the soft primary twisted yarn (B) to an average value of primary twist coefficients of the hard primary twisted yarns (A) is 0.5 to 1.2.

A power transmission belt includes a stacked body including a back surface layer disposed on a back surface side, an inner surface layer disposed on an inner surface side, and a tension member layer containing a tension member embedded between the back surface layer and the inner surface layer, in which the power transmission belt includes a sensor configured to detect a status of the power transmission belt, as at least a part of the stacked body.

A power transmission belt includes a stacked body including a back surface layer disposed on a back surface side, an inner surface layer disposed on an inner surface side, and a tension member layer containing a tension member embedded between the back surface layer and the inner surface layer, in which the power transmission belt includes a sensor configured to detect a status of the power transmission belt, as at least a part of the stacked body.

A composite comprises: a reinforcing element (10), an adhesive layer (14) made from an adhesive composition, and an elastomeric body made from an elastomeric matrix comprising an ethylene/alpha-olefin type elastomer and/or a polychloroprene elastomer. The adhesive composition comprises a resin based: on a polyphenol comprising an aromatic ring bearing two hydroxyl functions in the meta position relative to one another, the two positions ortho to one of the hydroxyl functions being unsubstituted; and/or on a monophenol comprising a six-membered aromatic ring bearing a single hydroxyl function, the two ortho positions being unsubstituted, or an ortho position and the para position being unsubstituted, and on a compound comprising an aromatic ring bearing two functions, one of these functions being a hydroxymethyl function and the other being an aldehyde function or a hydroxymethyl function.

A composite comprises: a reinforcing element (10), an adhesive layer (14) made from an adhesive composition, and an elastomeric body made from an elastomeric matrix comprising an ethylene/alpha-olefin type elastomer and/or a polychloroprene elastomer. The adhesive composition comprises a resin based: on a polyphenol comprising an aromatic ring bearing two hydroxyl functions in the meta position relative to one another, the two positions ortho to one of the hydroxyl functions being unsubstituted; and/or on a monophenol comprising a six-membered aromatic ring bearing a single hydroxyl function, the two ortho positions being unsubstituted, or an ortho position and the para position being unsubstituted, and on a compound comprising an aromatic ring bearing two functions, one of these functions being a hydroxymethyl function and the other being an aldehyde function or a hydroxymethyl function.

A friction transmission belt includes a belt body which transmits power to a pulley. In a relationship between a friction coefficient and a slipping speed which is a difference between a speed of the belt body and a speed of the pulley, when a slipping speed at which a maximum friction coefficient is indicated is defined as a first slipping speed, a friction coefficient when the slipping speed is increased from the first slipping speed to a second slipping speed is defined as a reference friction coefficient, and a difference between the second slipping speed and the first slipping speed is 500 mm/s, a decrease rate Dm of the friction coefficient indicated by the following equation (1) with the maximum friction coefficient being denoted by μx and the reference friction coefficient being denoted by μr is not greater than 20%.

Dm=(μx−μr)/μx×100  (1)