A method of manufacturing on a continuous basis quantities of seamed belts with
imageable seams for printing systems from a continuous supply web of belt material,
which seamed belts need to be manufactured to a desired circumference and width.
In the disclosed embodiment the sides of the incoming supply web are cut in seam-forming
mating edges and the web is fed in at an angle to a pair of rollers, at least one
of which is tapered, to spirally wrap the web into a cylinder of the desired circumference
of the seamed belts and providing mating engagement and gluing of the seam-forming
edges. Then by sequentially transversely cutting off cylindrical segments of that
spirally formed cylinder into the desired width, multiple seamed belts are formed
with both the desired circumference and width.
