IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTING FOR DRIVING PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
We JOHN LEE and JAMES LEE both of the firm of Messieurs James. Loe and
Sons of Hipperholme in the county of York Tanners, Curriers, and belting
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of our Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTING FOR DRIVING PURPOSES" to be as follows:-
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The object of our invention is to construct leather link belting, which will give
or lay to the form of the pulleys on which it runs.
We construct the links of the belting of leather stamped out with the required
holes, through which are passed metal pins or rods with rivet heads at one end,
the other having a washer and then rivetted up, or both ends may have washers
and be rivetted up; midway the length of the pins or rods, we form a swivel, link,
or joint, or for wide belts one or more joints may be made by this means the belt
will give or lay to the form or shape of the pulley rims, which as hitherto
constructed they would not do, and so caused a loss of driving power.

page_text: We JOHN LEE and JAMES LEE both of Hipperholme in the county of York and
of the firm of Messrs James Lee and Sons Tanners, Curriers and Belting Manu-
facturers do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTING FOR DRIVING PURPOSES," and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
The object of our invention is to construct leather link belting for driving
purposes, which will give, or lay, to the form of the pulleys on which it runs.
We construct the links of the belting which are of leather or other suitable
substance stamped out with the required holes, through which I pass metal pins or
rods, with rivet heads at one end, the other having a washer, and being then
rivetted up, or both ends may have washers, and be rivetted up; midway the
length of the pins or rods, we make a swivel link, or joint of metal or leather
(or two or more joints if required for very broad belting) by this means the belts
will give or lay to the form or shape of the driving pulley, which hitherto they
would not do, and consequently did not drive well.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shews section of ordinary link belting on pulley rim.
Fig. 1 shews our improved hinged or jointed belting on pulley rim, the joint
being of leather.
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Fig. 2 shews the same belting but running the opposite side up.
Fig. 3 shews a similar view of hinged or jointed belting, the joints being metal
links.
Fig. 3 shews plan of links detached.
Figs. 4 and 5 are plans of Figs 1 and 2.
Fig. 6 is a side view of our link belting.
Fig. 7 shews end elevation of link belting upon a small pulley.
Figs 8 and 9 shew plans of metal joints.
A are the links of the belting which are of leather, wood, canvas, compressed
paper, cotton, or other suitable substance, stamped out with the required holes,
through which I pass metal pins or rods B, with rivet heads C, at one end, the
other having a washer D, and being then rivetted up; or both ends may have
washers and be rivetted up; midway the length of the pins or rods, we make a
swivel, link or joint E, of metal, leather, or other suitable substance, (or two or
more joints if required for very broad belting); by this means the belts will give
or lay to the form or shape of the driving pulleys, which hitherto they would
not do.
When the joints are of metal see Fig. 3, 34 8 and 9, they may be formed by
passing a ring (split or otherwise) through the holes in the pins, or by threading
wire through the holes, and securing them, in any convenient manner, so as to
form a joint or hinge.
The belt ends are secured by ordinary rivets or by nuts and bolts.
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page_text: By our improvements the belts will bed firmly to the periphery of the
pulleys, however rounded they may be, and each portion of the belt having a
tendency to keep in the centre of the drum or pulley; there can be no parting
strain upon the joint between them.
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 manufacture of link belting of any suitable substance made with a joint, or
joints, so as to fit to the curve of drums or pulleys, the joints being formed either
of leather, canvas, metal, or other suitable material.
Dated this twenty eighth day of April 1885,
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicants.