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Abstract

A belting fabric having enhanced longitudinal and transverse rigidity includes closely adjacent, substantially uncrimped, warp cords in upper and lower planar arrays, and substantially uncrimped weft cords in upper, lower and middle planar arrays alternating with the arrays of warp cords. The cord to cord spacing in the middle array of weft cords is half that in the upper and lower arrays of weft cords, each upper weft cord is located midway intermediate two adjacent lower weft cords and vice versa, and each middle weft cord is located midway intermediate an upper weft cord and an immediately adjacent lower weft cord. All five arrays of cords are tied together by a set of upper and a set of lower binder cords extending in pairs in the warp direction intermediate, respectively, selected pairs of adjacent ones of the upper and lower warp cords, each two upper binder cords being interlaced jointly with each upper weft cord and, intermediate each two adjacent upper weft cords, singly each with only a respective one of the two middle weft cords located intermediate those two adjacent upper weft cords, and each two lower binder cords being interlaced jointly with each lower weft cord and, intermediate each two adjacent lower weft cords, singly each with only a respective one of the two middle weft cords located intermediate those two adjacent lower weft cords. This abstract is not to be taken either as a complete exposition or as a limitation of the present invention, however, the full nature and extent of the invention being discernible only by reference to and from the entire disclosure.

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First Claim