Process for fabricating flexible belts using laser ablation

Details Process for fabricating flexible belts using laser ablation Process for fabricating flexible belts using laser ablation

1996-09-20

1997-11-18

Simmons, David A.

Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture

Methods

Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor

156 734, 156257, 156258, 1562733, 1563045, B32B 3100

Patent

active

056883552

ABSTRACT:
A seamed flexible belt and process for fabricating the belt is disclosed. A flexible sheet having a substantially rectangular shape, a first major exterior surface opposite and parallel to a second major exterior surface and a first edge surface of a first marginal end region opposite to and parallel with a second edge surface of a second marginal end region is treated by removing by ablation with a masked excimer laser beam a first segment of material from the first major exterior surface at the first marginal end region to form at least one recess comprising at least one fresh substantally flat surface intersecting at least one adjacent wall at a right angle, the flat surface being substantially parallel to and spaced from the second major exterior surface; removing by ablation with a masked excimer laser beam a second segment of material from the second major exterior surface at the second marginal end region to form at least one recess comprising at least one fresh substantially flat surface intersecting at least one adjacent wall at a right angle, the flat surface being substantially parallel to and spaced from the first major exterior surface; overlapping the first marginal end region over the second marginal end region whereby the fresh substantally flat surface at the first marginal end surface mates with the fresh substantally flat surface at the second marginal end surface; and fusing the overlapped end regions together to form a fused seam.

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