Motion and power-transmitting belts

Claim 1

A BELT HAVING OPPOSED ENDS ADAPTED TO BE SEPARABLY CONNECTED TO FORM AN ENDLESS BELT COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: A BELT BODY FORMED OF FLEXIBLE RESILIENT MATERIAL HAVING A FLEXIBLE CORE MEANS EMBEDDED LONGITUDINALLY THEREIN; A FIRST CONNECTOR MEANS EMBEDDED IN ONE TERMINAL END PORTION OF SAID RESILIENT BELT BODY AND CONNECTED TO SAID FLEXIBLE CORE MEANS; AND A SECOND CONNECTOR MEANS EMBEDDED IN THE OTHER TERMINAL END PORTION OF SAID RESILIENT BELT BODY AND CONNECTED TO SAID FLEXIBLE CORE MEANS; SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTOR MEANS BEING INTERENGAGEABLE TO OPERATIVELY CONNECT SAID OPPOSED ENDS OF SAID BELT UNDER FORCES TENDING TO EFFECT RELATIVE AXIAL MOVEMENT OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTOR MEANS AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER AND DISENGAGEABLE ONLY AFTER THE EXERTION OF FORCES TENDING TO EFFECT RELATIVE AXIAL MOVEMENT OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTER MEANS TOWARD ONE ANOTHER, AND SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTOR MEANS BEING DISPOSED AXIALLY OF THE END FACES OF SAID TERMINAL END PORTIONS OF SAID BELT BODY SUCH THAT WHEN THE END FACES OF SAID TERMINAL END PORTIONS ARE ABUTTED WITHOUT AXIAL COMPRESSION OF THE RESILIENT BELT BODY MATERIAL ADJACENT SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTOR MEANS THE INTERENGAGEABLE PORTIONS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTORS MEANS ARE SPACED AXIALLY FROM ONE ANOTHER SO THAT BELT END CONNECTING INTERENGAGEMENT OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTOR MEANS REQUIRES ABUTMENT OF THE END FACES OF SAID TERMINAL END PORTIONS AND AXIAL COMPRESSION OF THE RESILIENT BELT BODY MATERIAL ADJACENT SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTOR MEANS SO THAT FORCES TENDING TO EFFECT RELATIVE AXIAL MOVEMENT OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTOR MEANS AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER WILL BE IMPARTED THERETO WHEREBY UNITENTIONAL DISENGAGEMENT OF SAID INTERENGAGED FIRST AND SECOND CONNECTOR MEANS AND RESULTING DISCONNECTION OF SAID OPPOSED BELT ENDS WILL BE RESISTED.