The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-13
Hawaiian Hardware Co., Id

paper, regarding the Beet
Trust, and reflection cast upon
the hides, horns, etc. AS TO
the hides, many of them are
shipped to the United States
and, after passing through
various stages of manufacture
are returned to the Islands.
The boots you wear, the har-
ness you use in driving and
the belts used to run the pres
ses which print this paper
were perhaps, on the backs
of animals the Beef Trust
once held an interest in.
We have harness leather
and we have betting. Just
where the hides were grown
we cannot say, but we can
guarantee it to be equal to
any ever sold in this market
perhaps a little better.
The process of making belt
ing is interesting to anyone
and a word or two here will
not be out of place.
In the first place only the
best hides are purchased and
sent to the tannery where sup
erior oak bark is used in the
tanning process. The belly
being removed the first step
is to cut the shoulder from the
hide or "butt' as it is termed.
The butt is then examined
; to ascertain what particular
| width of belt may be cut from
it. For the largest, or belts
} used in electrical machines, only
those parts are employed
which have the center line cor
e responding to the lines of the
!, back bone. Following this
Y comes the currying process
: the men, by means OF. long
: knives remove every particle
of flesh from the hides. Next
comes the securing which is
done by means of large
stone rubbed over the surface
while a stream of water Pours
: over it. Then the hide is placed
in a sliding frame attached by
chains to a windlass and by
multiplication of gears a ire
4 mendous tension can be ap
i piled to the piece. After thi
the leather is coated witt
h grease and thoroughly rubbed
in. AS the preliminary worl
: has now been accomplishe'
belt making commences.
r. The pieces are selected &C
2g cording to the width and Gu
IS IS in strips and passed to tn
scarfing machine which slice
off a wedge shaped piece a
n the end of each strip where
y is to be Tapped in the bel
The process of joining tn
strips is then begun. The lap
On are covered with cement an
It's pressure is applied at tn
points of junction by means {
IS the presses which in operatio
and general design are SINH
=, lar to those used in copyin
letters. The smaller belts ar
strengthened at the laps b
5! rivets or staples. Belt
used in electrical machiner
are put together without an
form of metallic fastening
The cement is selected wit
the utmost care and apple
. hot with a brush and pressur
is applied by hydraulic presse:
In a belt 48 inches wide mad
+, for an electrical company ever
IS inches of its entire lengt
represented the choicest PAL
n of a single large hide.
AS stated, one of the grea
objects in the manufacture
ss- to remove the stretch in tn
belt although the effort is nc
carried so far that elasticity
gone. Should that qualit
be gone the belt no longe
hugs the pulley tight, nor Wi
it do its work SATISFACTORY,
y, Imagine the care exercised i
this respect in the manufactur
of belt 46 inches wide IS
feet long and weighing 273
lbs.-the heaviest belt in tn
world.
When the belts have pas