Conveyor belt and wire fabric therefor

Claim 1

A CONVEYOR BELT COMPRISING A FABRIC TENSION MEMBER HAVING A REPEATING PATTERN OF WARP AND WEFT ELEMENTS, SAID PATTERN BEING FORMED OF A FIRST LAYER COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF COPLANAR PARALLEL BRASS-PLATED WIRE WARP YARNS, SAID WIRE WARN YARNS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY ENTIRELY UNCRIMPED, A SINGLE TEXTILE LAYER COMPRISING A SERIES OF TEXTILE WARP YARNS POSITIONED BELOW THE PLANE OF SAID WIRE WARP YARNS AND IN ALTERNATING RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER, SAID SINGLE TEXTILE LAYER ALSO COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF TEXTILE WEFT ELEMENTS INTERLACING WITH SAID TEXTILE WARP YARNS AND BEING POSITIONED BELOW THE PLANE OF SAID WIRE WARP YARNS, A PLURALITY OF WIDELY SPACED WEFT YARNS POSITIONED SUBSTANTIALLY ENTIRELY ABOVE THE WIRE WARP YARNS, ADJACENT ONES OF SAID TEXTILE WARP YARNS BEING LOOPED, IN STAGGERED RELATIONSHIP TO ONE ANOTHER, OVER ALTERNATE ONES OF SAID WIDELY SPACE WEFT YARNS, WHEREBY EACH LOOPED TEXTILE WARP YARN IS EFFECTIVE TO LOCK SAID WIRE WARP YARNS AND SAID WIDELY SPACED WEFT YARNS AGAINST THE ADJACENT AND UNLOOPED ONE OF SAID TEXTILE WARP YARNS, AND ELASTOMERIC COVERING LAYERS ADHERENT TO SAID FABRIC THROUGH THE INTERSTICES THEREOF AND ADHERENT TO SAID BRASS-PLATED WIRE WARP YARNS.