Machinery and other Purposes.
Year: 1885

page_text: Machinery and other Purposes.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Newchurch in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF WOVEN BELTING FOR DRIVING MACHINERY AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
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The improvements refer to the manufacture of belting for driving machinery and
other purposes, when the same or the fabric composing the same is manufactured
by means of weaving in the loom; and have for their object the strengthening of
such like woven belts, which at present are composed of cotton, hair, jute, flax, or
similar textile fibres.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements I combine with the warps of
cotton, jute, hair, flax, or other fibre, or mixtures of such fibres, a certain number of
strands of metallic wire, such as steel, copper, brass, or iron, which may be round,
flat, or any other suitable form in cross section.
These metallic strands may be composed of thin or thick wire, and may be of
such number as will best be suitable for the particular belting required. They
may be either wound on the same warp beam as the yarn warp threads, or a
special or separate warp beam may be employed for the purpose, or the wire may
be woven from reels, bobbins, or a creel of such.
By preference the metallic strands are woven into the centre of the belting, in
its cross section, but this may be varied, and the wire may be confined to particular
portions of the width of belting or may be evenly distributed throughout the same.
The belts may, in this way, be either woven of the required width in double
treble or multiple warp for to obtain the requisite thickness; or the metallic strands
may be woven in duck or other fabrics, and afterwards folded and sewn into
belting as is well understood.
Variations in detail may be made without departing from the peculiar character
of the invention which consists in the employment, in combination with the
ordinary warp threads used in weaving belting or belting fabrics, of metallic strands
of wire woven in the length of the belting or fabric for the purpose of strengthening
the same in use.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven Belting for Driving
Machinery and other Purposes.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Newchurch, in the county of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF WOVEN BELTING FOR DRIVING MACHINERY AND OTHER PURPOSES," and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The improvements refer to the manufacture of belting for driving machinery and
other purposes, when the same or the fabric composing the same is manufactured
by means of weaving in the loom; and have for their object the strengthening of
such like woven belts, which at present are composed of cotton, hair, jute, flax, or
similar textile fibres.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I combine with the warps of
cotton, jute, hair, flax, or other fibre, or mixtures of such fibres, a certain number of
strands of metallic wire, such as steel, copper, brass, or iron, which may be round,
flat, or any other suitable form in cross section.
These metallic strands may be composed of thin or thick wire, and may be of
such number as will best be suitable for the particular belting required. They
may be either wound on the same warp beam as the yarn warp threads, or a
special or separate warp beam may be employed for the purpose, or the wire may
be woven from reels, bobbins, or a creel of such.
I employ these strands of wire in one or more of several particular ways or
manners.
In the first place I twist single ends of wire double, treble, or multiple, into
strands prior to weaving, the object being to cause the wire to be embedded in the
fabric, and by means of the thread or screw formed by such twist to prevent the
wire so woven into the bolt from taking up the whole of the strain, and so
stretching in use until broken, as is liable where smooth single ends of wire are
employed.
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Secondly, in conjunction with or in lieu of the foregoing, I weave the ends of
wire, without previous twisting, in to the belting by what is known as the "leno
process of weaving, by which means a twist or half twist is formed in the ends of
wire composing the strands during the weaving itself, with the same result of
embedding in the fabric by means of bends or "kinks" in the wire employed.
I also employ the same or other formed strands of wire in belting of a special
character, formed of cotton in the centre, strengthened by the strands of wire, and
"faced" on one or both sides with hair fibre; by which means a belt of such
compound character is produced about equal in strength to one composed entirely
of hair.
By preference the metallic stands are woven into the centre of the belting, in
its cross section, but this may be varied, and the wire may be confined to particular
portions of the width of belting, or may be evenly distributed throughout the same.

page_text: The bolts may, in this way, be either woven of the required width in double,
treble, or multiple warp, for to obtain the requisite thickness; or the metallic
strands may be woven in duck or other fabrics, and afterwards folded and sewn
into belting as is well understood.
Variations in detail may be made without departing from the peculiar character
of the invention, which I would have it understood does not consist merely in the
introduction of wire into the weaving of belting; which I am aware has been
proposed before, but of the special methods of doing this herein laid down.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The employment, in combination with the ordinary warp threads used in
weaving belting or belting fabrics, of metallic strands of wire formed by previously
twisting two or more ends of wire together and woven in the length of the belting
substantially as described.
2. The employment of untwisted wire for the same purpose in such manner that
the same becomes partially twisted or "lenoed" in the operation of weaving
substantially as described.
3. The employment of the foregoing or other formed strands of wire in
conjunction with cotton for the centre and hair for the facing of such woven belts,
substantially as described.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.