A pipe belt system comprising one or more thermoplastic elastomeric (TPE) layers and a reinforcement layer is disclosed. The one or more thermoplastic elastomeric (TPE) layers have a first modulus of elasticity and a first stiffness and formed across a width of the belt. The reinforcement layer is formed proximate to the one or more TPE layers and has a second modulus of elasticity and a second stiffness. The pipe belt is configured to have an open state where the belt is substantially flat and a closed state where the belt is formed having a circular shape and partially overlaps itself. The pipe belt has a combined modulus of elasticity based on the first modulus of elasticity and the second modulus of elasticity and a combined stiffness based on the first stiffness and the second stiffness.

A printed magnetic rip insert and system for monitoring conveyor belts using printed rip inserts is disclosed. The system includes: a plurality of printed rip insert elements on a substrate of a conveyor belt; a field generator for generating a magnetic field proximate the printed rip insert elements; and a detector for detecting an image of a magnetic field produced by the plurality of printed rip inserts.

A conveyor belt including a pulley cover layer, a carry cover layer, and at least one reinforcement layer disposed within the belt between the pulley cover layer and the carry cover layer. The belt has a first edge section, a second edge section, and a load carrying section. The first edge section and the second edge section are located on each side of the conveyor belt, and the load carrying section is located between the first second edge sections. The reinforcement layer is comprised of a woven fabric which has weft threads extending across the width of the belt and passing into both the first edge section and the second edge section of the conveyor belt. The woven fabric also has warp threads located in the load carrying section of the conveyor belt extending longitudinally throughout the belt without passing into either the first or the second edge section.

A conveyor belt includes an upper cover rubber and a lower cover rubber disposed above and below a core layer; and a protective fiber layer made from high strength fiber disposed at least in a central portion of the upper cover rubber in a belt width direction and extending continuously in a belt longitudinal direction; an elastic modulus E of the protective fiber layer in the belt longitudinal direction being a low elastic modulus E1 equal to or less than a predetermined value when a tension in the belt longitudinal direction acting on the conveyor belt is equal to or less than a setting tension Ts, and being a high elastic modulus E2 higher than the low elastic modulus E1 when a predetermined high tension higher than the setting tension Ts is acting on the conveyor belt.

An impact absorbing conveyor belt that includes an impact absorption layer, a first fabric layer and a top cover layer. The impact absorption layer has a first side. The impact absorption layer has a durometer. When the conveyor belt is in use, the first side of the impact absorption layer is oriented toward a surface of the conveyor belt on which an object being conveyed is placed. The top cover layer has a durometer that is greater than the durometer of the impact absorption layer. The first fabric layer and the top cover layer are both positioned on the first side of the impact absorption layer.

Provided is a rubber composition capable of suppressing deterioration of adhesiveness to a reinforcing member even in the case of having been subjected to repeated flex fatigue. The rubber composition is obtainable by compounding a rubber component containing a diene based rubber, a wet silica, a carbon black, and a calcium carbonate, wherein: a compounding amount of the wet silica is 3 parts by mass or more per 100 parts by mass of the diene based rubber; a nitrogen adsorption BET specific surface area of the carbon black is 8 m.sup.2/g or more and 100 m.sup.2/g or less; and the following formula 0.5X+28YX+88 is satisfied, where X represents the nitrogen adsorption BET specific surface area of the carbon black in terms of m.sup.2/g, and Y represents a compounding amount of the calcium carbonate in terms of parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene based rubber.

Provided is a rubber composition capable of exhibiting high adhesiveness to a reinforcing member when vulcanized, without depending on the vulcanization temperature. The rubber composition comprises: 100 parts by mass of (A) a diene based rubber; 25 parts by mass or more and 55 parts by mass or less of (B) carbon black including a carbon black (b-1) having a nitrogen adsorption BET specific surface area of 50 m.sup.2/g or more and a DBP oil absorption of 80 mL/100 g or more and 130 mL/100 g or less, and a carbon black (b-2) having a nitrogen adsorption BET specific surface area of less than 50 m.sup.2/g and a DBP oil absorption of 60 mL/100 g or more and less than 110 mL/100 g; and 3 parts by mass or more of (C) wet silica.

A bonded silicone rubber object which achieves little thermal deterioration and has excellent heat resistance and which suffers neither peeling nor tearing even when stretching is provided by bonding a silicone rubber substrate and an adhered substrate each other far more strongly and tenaciously than conventional ones. A bonded silicone rubber object includes: a silicone rubber substrate which includes and configured with silicone rubber; an adhered substrate which includes and configured with a non-glass material and includes an oxide, a sulfide and/or a nitride exposed on a bonding surface thereof; and the silicone rubber substrate and the adhered substrate which are bonded by direct bonding between reactive functional groups on a surface of the silicone rubber substrate and reactive functional groups on a surface of the oxide, the sulfide and/or the nitride.

A rubber composition of the present technology contains, per 100 parts by mass of a diene polymer that can be vulcanized by sulfur, from 0.5 parts by mass to 4 parts by mass of sulfur, and from 0.004 mol to 0.17 mol of a polyhydric alcohol compound having a molecular weight of 300 or less.

Heavy duty conveyor belts (1) having excellent resistance to high temperatures. These conveyor belts (1) can be repeatedly exposed to temperatures of greater than 200 C. or even 250 C. without compromising the strength or reliability of the belt while providing a greatly extended service life. The conveyor belts (1) may also be manufactured in a commercially viable and cost effective manner. The conveyor belts (1) generally include a reinforcement layer (3), a carry cover layer (2) disposed above the reinforcement layer (3), a pulley cover layer (4) disposed beneath the reinforcement layer (3), and the carry cover layer (2) is comprised of a fluoroelastomer. In some aspects, the conveyor belts (1) have a carry cover layer (2) which includes an outer surface layer (6) containing a fluoroelastomer and an inner layer (7) based upon an EPM elastomer or an EPDM elastomer.