edge of the belt on a curve the high tension at the outer edge can thus actually stretch the belt slightly at the outer edge making the turn radius of the assembled belt even tighter one effect of the high and low link ends of the above described embodiments is that the modules under tension at the outer edge of a belt tend to rotate slightly about the center spines this can affect the collapse of the belt at the inner edge although a belt can have sufficient resiliency that the slight rotation does not fully transfer to the inner edge also the rotation about center spines can provide a benefit of shared load on the rod i e shear loading is shared among more link ends over a wider area in the outer region one solution to the potential problem of spine rotation is to include a u201c dummy u201d link end dummy link ends are shown at 45 in fig1 a in a belt generally of the type shown in fig1 through 5 these relatively narrow dummy link ends 45 are positioned where they will not interfere with the full collapse of the belt and they provide the benefit of filling a gap particularly at.