Improvements in the Manufacture of Driving Belts.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Driving Belts.
We SAMUEL PLATT, of Roubiax, France, now residing at Cleckheaton, in the
County of York, Card Maker, and JONAS HALEY of Cleckheaton aforesaid, Card
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BELTS to be as follows:-
"
This invention relates to the manufacture of driving belts for transmitting power
the face or driving surface of such belts being composed of leather whilst the
backing of the belts consists of woven fabric composed of spun or twisted fibres
and wire, the combination of fibres, wire and leather producing a light belt of
great strength.
In the manufacture of driving belts according to this our said invention we
employ say four warps, of linen flax or other fibres, and a warp of iron-steel-
hardened and tempered steel or other wire, the four warps of fibre are by means
of any ordinary heald mechanism of four shafts operated so as to form sheds above
and below the line of the wire, warp, and through the two sheds are picked two
shuttles (one for the upper race and one for the lower race) having cotton or other
weft so that the wire is woven into the cloth or material so produced and which is
afterwards by cement stitching or otherwise secured to and forms the backing
of the leather or strap part of the completed belting, the leather portion not
being liable to stretching as heretofore by reason of the woven backing as above
described.
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WALTER BRIERLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: We, SAMUEL PLATT of Roubiax, France, now residing at Cleckheaton, in the
County of York. Card Maker and JONAS HALEY of Cleckheaton aforesaid Card
Maker do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BELTS " and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following 5
statement:
This invention relates to the manufacture of driving belts for transmitting power
the face or driving surface of such belts being composed of leather whilst the
backing of the belts consists of woven fabric composed of spun or twisted fibres
and wire, the combination of fibres, wire and leather producing a light belt of 1
great strength.
In the manufacture of driving belts according to this our said invention we
employ say four warps, of linen flax, or other fibres, and a warp of iron, steel,
hardened and tempered steel, or other wire, the four warps of fibre are by means
of any ordinary heald mechanism of four shafts operated so as to form sheds above 1
and below the line of the wire, warp, and through the two sheds are picked two
shuttles (one for the upper race and one for the lower race) having cotton or other
weft so that the wire is woven into the cloth or material so produced and which is
afterwards by cement, stitching, or otherwise, secured to and forms the backing of
the leather or strap part of the completed belting, the leather portion not being
liable to stretching as heretofore by reason of the woven backing as above
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
The improved manufacture of driving belts consisting of twisted and woven
fibre, woven wire, and of leather, all in combination and as herein fully described.
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