The present invention relates to an article having an elastic main body based on at least one thermoplastic elastomer or based on a vulcanizate and having an article surface that is provided with a textile overlay in the form of a plated knitted fabric, wherein the textile overlay is composed of at least two types of yarn that alternate in the individual knitted courses at regular intervals.

A power transmission belt has a front rubber face and a back rubber surface. The back rubber surface has an uneven surface of rubber which, when the power transmission belt is wound around a flat pulley, comes in contact with the flat pulley. The uneven surface of rubber has a pattern created by a mold having an impression of a surface of a woven fabric or a knitted fabric. The impression has projected parts and recessed parts, and each of the projected parts has a flat top surface. The power transmission belt is wound around a number of pulleys in a belt transmission system in which the pulleys include a flat pulley with which the uneven surface of the power transmission belt comes in contact.

A friction transmission belt has a rubber layer forming a pulley contacting portion. The rubber layer is made of a rubber composition containing a crosslinked rubber component and crosslinked polyolefin particles. Examples of the crosslinked polyolefin particles can contain ultrahigh molecular weight polyolefin particles having an average molecular weight of 500,000 or more.

A V-ribbed belt includes a compression rubber layer having a frictional power transmission surface that is covered with a fabric. The compression rubber layer includes an inner rubber layer in contact with the fabric and an outer rubber layer on an outer side of the inner rubber layer. The inner rubber layer is formed of a rubber composition having a Mooney Scorch minimum viscosity of 50 to 110 when measured at 125? C., and the outer rubber layer is formed of a rubber composition having a Mooney Scorch minimum viscosity of 70 to 130 when measured at 125? C.

A V-ribbed belt which comprises core wires and a stretch rubber layer constituted of a vulcanizate of a rubber composition comprising a rubber ingredient and short is provided. The content of the short fibers in the rubber composition is 15-50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber ingredient and the rubber composition has a minimum Mooney scorch viscosity, as measured at 125 C., of 70-130.

A frictional transmission belt according to the present disclosure has a belt body wound around a pulley to transmit power. The belt includes a water absorptive fabric covering at least one side of the belt body that contacts with the pulley.

A V-ribbed belt has a cord made of polyester-based fibers, the total fiber fineness of which is 2200 dtex or more and 5500 dtex or less. A fiber fineness of the cord per belt width corresponding to a single V-shaped rib ranges from 10000 dtex to 19000 dtex. A belt dry-heat shrinkage force per belt width corresponding to a single V-shaped rib is 44 N or more. The belt dry-heat shrinkage force is a load increase with respect to a belt length of 300 mm in 30 minutes after applying, in an atmosphere of 150 C., a load of 6N in the belt longitudinal direction and holding the belt.

A method for making a V-ribbed belt is made by inserting a first partial blank in the form of a base tube into a cylindrical vulcanization mold having a negative of a V-ribbed profile. The first partial blank is molded into a surrounding negative and thus provided with the V-ribbed profile without vulcanization. A second partial blank made as a top ply tube with a tension strand is inserted into the virtually completely molded-in base tube and is expanded under heat and pressure so that the top ply tube and the base tube are bonded to one another. Thereafter, the latter is molded into the surrounding negative of the vulcanization mold, and the top ply tube and the base tube are vulcanized to form a V-ribbed blank, whereafter the V-ribbed blank is removed from the vulcanization mold and is fed to the cutting device.

A friction transmission belt has a belt body made of a rubber composition and wrapped around pulleys to transmit power. The belt includes a thermoplastic resin film provided to coat a pulley contact surface of the belt body, and a powder layer comprised of reduced friction coefficient powder particles provided on a surface side of the thermoplastic resin film. The powder layer includes powder particles buried in the thermoplastic resin film, powder particles carried and exposed on the surface of the thermoplastic resin film, and powder particles agglomerated and adhering to the powder particles carried and exposed on the surface of the thermoplastic resin film.

A V-belt (B) includes a rubber composition forming a portion (11) to be V-shaped side faces (110). Organic nanofibers (16) and organic short fibers (17) are included in the rubber composition, and oriented along a belt width. In the rubber composition, a ratio of a storage modulus in a grain direction to a storage modulus in cross-grain direction is 5 or greater.