Belting fabric

Claim 1

A BELTING FABRIC COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNCRIMPED PARALLEL WARPS, A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNCRIMPED PARALLEL WEFTS POSITIONED ABOVE AND BELOW SAID WARPS AND TRANSVERSE THERETO, THE WEFTS ABOVE SAID WARPS AND THE WEFTS BELOW SAID WARPS BEING IN NONOPPOSITION IN THE FABRIC, AT LEAST TWO BINDERS POSITIONED BETWEEN ADJACENT WARPS AND INTERLACING THE WEFTS ABOVE AND BELOW SAID WARPS IN ALTERNATING SEQUENCE WITH AT LEAST ONE OF THE BINDERS BETWEEN EACH OF THE ADJACENT WARPS INTERLACING WEFTS OTHER THAN THOSE INTERLACED BY ANOTHER BINDER BETWEEN THE SAME ADJACENT WARPS, THE INTERSECTIONS OF THE BINDERS BETWEEN EACH OF THE ADJACENT WARPS BEING LOCATED ALTERNATELY ABOVE AND BELOW THE CENTERLINE OF SAID WARPS, THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID ADJACENT WARPS BEING GREATER THAN THE COMPRESSED DIAMETER OF THE INDIVIDUAL BINDERS BETWEEN THE ADJACENT WARPS AND LESS THAN TWICE THE COMPRESSED DIAMETER OF SAID INDIVIDUAL BINDERS BETWEEN THE ADJACENT WARPS, THE TENSION OF THE BINDERS IN THE FABRIC HOLDING SAID BINDER INTERSECTIONS IN FIRM CONTACT WITH SAID ADJACENT WARPS AND BEING OF SUCH MAGNITUDE THAT AN INCREASE IN SAID BINDER TENSION PRODUCED BY THE EXTENSION OF THE FABRIC IN THE DIRECTION OF THE WARPS BEYOND THE EXTENSION PRODUCED BY THE NORMAL WORKING TENSION WILL INTRODUCE A MUTUAL EMBEDDING AND CRIMPING OF SAID WARPS AND SAID WEFTS AND A MUTUAL EMBEDDING AND CRIMPING OF SAID WARPS AND SAID BINDER INTERSECTIONS, SAID BINDERS IN THE FABRIC HAVING A STRETCH MODULUS OF ELASTICITY AT LEAST AS GREAT AS THE STRETCH MODULUS OF ELASTICITY OF SAID WARPS IN THE FABRIC.