Improvements in mechanical belting

990,730. Belting fabrics. DUNLOP RUBBER CO. Ltd. Sept. 20, 1961 [Oct. 6, 1960], No. 34244/60 Heading D1K. [Also in Division B5] A belting fabric has a ground weave and floa ing protective threads 2 which are coarser than and alternate with the warps of the ground weave, The protective threads 2 may be cotton, sisal rayon or the like staple fibres and the ground weave may be woven from high tenacity rayon, polyester or polyamide yarns. In Figs. 1 and 3 the warp 1 is continuous filament nylon yarn and the threads 2 and three fold sisal. In another example the warp was of three ends of 840 denier nylon, the weft of four ends of 840 nylon doubled with four ends of 2's count cotton and the protective threads were of three ends of 170 count sisal. The floating threads may also be of three ends of 4 count cotton. Various weaves are described.