Improvements in Wire Spring Bands for Belts, Garters, and other Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 13th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Spring Bands for Belts, Garters, and
other Articles.
I, PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN of the Firm of Martin and Martins, of
Granville Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to wire spring bands of that type in which loop coils are
combined with crossing-over wires or levering arms, and is an improvement upon
or amplification of the well-known Martin" band, made in accordance with
Letters Patent granted to John Jackson and bearing date the 25th day of March
1885 and numbered 3830.
My present invention has for one of its objects, a band endowed with great
flexibility and resiliency, and with the opposite edges formed hollow or roll-like.
In banding of the "Martin" type, the loops of the coils are disposed in the same
plane as the band, and the crossing wires or levering arms (which unite the coils
one to another) cross each other.
In my present invention, the coils, which form the edging, are disposed at right
angles or crosswise to the direction of the plane of the band, whilst the axes of the
loops come lignable one with another, so that the coils evolve in the longer direction
of the band, and when closed, they make a continuous roll border or hollow edging
upon the two opposite sides of the said band, which, when drawn out or distended,
presents a continuous zig-zag figure, with compound coils at the junctions of the
joining or body wires one with another.
Thus, a band constructed according to one form of my invention consists of a
series of independent and contiguous compound coils, coupled by inwardly cranked
and crinkled joining body wires, which, when the band is distended, take a zig-zag
course in the longer direction of the band, but normally, the said cranked and
joining body wires slightly overlap each other, forming as it were a reticulated or
meshed open-worked body part, with the coils closing up to each other and
forming continuous rolled edges or hollow borders to the open-work semi-diamond
body mesh.
I might add that when the band is distended or opened out gusset-wise, the coils
upon one side come opposite the gaps on the other side, and that the coupling
wires, which join the coils, leave the backs of the coils upon one side and return
diagonally over, with the same cranking inwards in the longer direction of the
band, and then forwardly join the coils upon the other side, and when the said coils
are opened out, the loop convolutions of them spread fan-wise.
In a further form of my invention, the compound coils are joined by straight
coupling wires, instead of by cranked wires. In such a case, each of the border
coils are separated from each other by a space.
In a still further form of my invention in connection with a "Martin" type
band, the compound loop coils are arranged in the plane of the band, with the
coupling or joining wires, which form levering arms, crossing directly from the
ight hand side of a coil upon one side of the band to the left hand side of a coil
pon the other side, and then the next joiuing or coupling wire leaves the right-
and side of the said last-named coil, and passes over to the loop coil upon the other

page_text: side in a zig-zag manner, and without the said coupling or joining-up wires crossing
each other.
Dated this 26th day of May 1894
PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Wire Spring Bands for Belts, Garters, and
other Articles.
I, PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN of the Firm of Martin and Martins, of
Granville Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to wire spring bands of that type in which loop coils are
combined with crossing-over wires or levering arms, and is an improvement upon
or amplification of the well-known Martin" band made in accordance with
Letters Patent granted to John Jackson and bearing date the 25th day of March
1885 and numbered 3830 of which my Firm of Martin and Martins are the sole
assignees.
My present invention has for one of its objects, a band endowed with great
flexibility and resiliency, and with the opposite edges formed hollow or roll-like.
In banding of the "Martin "
type, the loops of the coils are disposed in the
same plane as the band, and the crossing wires or levering arnis (which unite the
spring coils one to another) cross each other.
In my present invention, the coils, which form the edging, are disposed at right
angles or crosswise to the direction of the plane of the band, whilst the axes of the
loops come lignable one with another, so that the coils evolve in the longer
direction of the band, and when closed, they make a continuous roll border or
hollow edging upon the two opposite sides of the said band, which, when drawn
out or distended, presents a continuous zig-zag figure, with compound coils at the
junctions of the joining or body wires one with another.
Thus, a band constructed according to one form of my invention consists of
a series of independent and contiguous compound coils, coupled by inwardly
cranked and crinkled joining body wires, which, when the band is distended, take
a zig-zag course in the longer direction of the band, but normally, the said cranked
and joining body wires slightly overlap each other, forming as it were a reticulated
or meshed open-worked body part, with the coils closing up to each other and
forming continuous rolled edges or hollow borders to the open-work semi-diamond
body mesh.
I might add that when the band is distended or opened out gusset-wise, the
coils upon one side come opposite the gaps on the other side, and that the coupling
wires, which join the coils, leave the backs of the coils upon one side and return
diagonally over, with the same cranking inwards in the longer direction of the
band, and then forwardly join the coils upon the other side, and when the said coils
are opened out, the loop convolutions of them spread fan-wise.
In a further form of my invention, the compound coils are joined by straight
coupling wires, instead of by cranked wires. In such a case, each of the border
coils are separated from each other by a space.
In a still further form of my invention in connection with a " Martin " type
band, the compound loop coils are arranged in the plane of the band, with the
coupling or joining wires, which form levering arms, crossing directly from the

page_text: right hand side of a coil upon one side of the band to the left hand side of a coil
upon the other side, and then the next joining or coupling wire leaves the right
hand side of the said last-named coil, and passes over to the loop coil upon the
other side in a zig-zag manner, and without the said coupling or joining-up wires
crossing each other.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation, and closed,
a wire spring band made according to the first form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents the same distended or opened out.
Figure 3 represents an end view of the said band.
a, a are spring border coils, each made up of four convolutions or loops and
united together by cranked and crinkled crossing wires or levering arms b, b,
which, when the coils are in a collapsed or closed position, slightly overlap each
other, whilst the coils themselves form a hollow or rolled border.
The overlapping crossing wires make a reticulated middle part between the
hollow roll edges.
Figure 4 represents a modified form of my invention whilst Figure 5 represents
an end view of Figure 4. It will be seen that the compound spring coils are united
by straight wires instead of by cranked ones, so that the coils are separated from
each other by a space.
a,
a¹
another.
are compound coils and 6, 61, are joining wires, crossing from one coil to
Figure 6 represents a still further form of spring band made according to my
invention, and Figure 7 is an end view of the same.
a,
a¹
are compound loop coils, the axes of whose eyes are disposed at right
angles to the plane of the band, and with the coupling or joining wires b, b', which
form levering arms, crossing directly from the right hand side of a coil upon one
side of the band to the left hand side of a coil upon the other side of the band,
and then the next joining or coupling wire leaves the right hand side of the said
last named coil, and passes over to the loop coil upon the other side in a zig-zag
manner, and witbout the said coupling or joining-up wires crossing each other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. A wire spring band having a rolled edge formed from compound spring
coils, with their ends normally coming together, lignable with one another and
disposed in the general direction of the band, and with the said coils united
together by side and lateral cranked crossing wires or levering arms, which
normally form an open-work or reticulated middle part, substantially as described
and set forth in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
Secondly. A spring wire band, consisting of separated rolled border coils united
together by crossing wires or levering arms, substantially as described and set forth
in Figures 4 and 5.
Thirdly. A spring wire band, consisting of compound loop coils, with the axes
of the eyes of the loops disposed at right angles to the general direction of the
band, and with the said loops connected by crossing-over wires or levering arms,
substantially as described and set forth in Figures 6 and 7.
Dated this 14th day of February 1895.
PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.