The Manufacture of an Improved Material suitable for Driving Belts or Bands, Harness Traces and other like Purposes. IMPROVED MATERIAL SUITABLE FOR
Year: 1885

page_text: The Manufacture of an Improved Material suitable for Driving
Belts or Bands, Harness Traces, and other like Purposes.
I WILLIAM FREDERICK THOMAS of Newtown in the county of Montgomery
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF AN IMPROVED MATERIAL SUITABLE FOR DRIVING BELTS OR BANDS,
HARNESS TRACES, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to the combination of a suitable yarn or fibre preferably
coir yarn with ribands or wires of metal whereby I obtain a cheap material of
great strength and which is little liable to be affected by changes of temperature
and therefore very suitable to be used for driving belts or bands for machinery, for
harness traces, for bands for raising, lowering or suspending weights, for rigging,
and for other purposes where flat bands are or can be employed.
In carrying out the invention a wire or wires or a riband or ribands of metal is
or are covered, by weaving thereon coir or other suitable yarn or fibre thereby
producing a flat band of the required width and of any desired length, the said
wire or wires or riband or ribands passing lengthwise or in the direction of the
strain of the band.

page_text: Belts or Bands, Harness Traces, and other like Purposes.
I WILLIAM FREDERICK THOMAS of Dolguan, Newtown, in the county of Mont-
gomery, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to the combination of coir yarn with ribands or wires of
metal whereby I obtain a cheap material. of great strength which is porous or
reticulated and which is little liable to be affected by changes of temperature and
therefore very suitable to be used for driving belts or bands for machinery, for
harness traces, for bands for raising, lowering or suspending weights, for rigging
and for other purposes where flat bands are or can be employed also applicable for
ships' hawsers. The improved compound material composed of coir yarn and wire
is specially applicable for driving bands or belts as by its use slipping is to a great
extent avoided as the improved material is of a porous or reticulated texture while
as regards friction and durability it possesses great advantages.
I manufacture driving belts or bands by weaving them from combined coir yarn
and wire or ribands of metal, that is to say, the warp is formed of coir yarn and
one or more wires or ribands of metal and the weft wholly of coir yarn; a flat
band of the required width and of any desired length is thus made the said wire
or wires or riband or ribands passing lengthwise or in the direction of the strain of
the band.
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:
The manufacture of flat bands suitable for belts or harness traces and other like
purposes by combining coir yarn with wires or ribands of metal substantially as
described.