Improvements in Driving Belts.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Driving Belts.
ALFRED SUITER 174 Wandsworth Road Surrey Mechanical Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
There are many substances suitable for driving belts as far as the grip or tread
on the pullys they run on goes, but they are deficient in tensile strength to resist
the constant pull of the driving power.
The object of this invention is to so construct a belt that it can be built up of any
width or length from small inferior portions of leather or any suitable composition,
and other substances, that it shall have great tensile strength, at the same time
be elastic, pass easily round a small pully without moveable joints to wear,
and that it can be easily taken up, or shortened, in case of it getting too slack to
drive.
In carrying out my invention I employ a ribbon, composed of links, made
preferably of thin steel and joined end to end by a rivet or other suitable means.
This linked ribbon I use on the flat, upon the inner, or pully side of which I fasten
-preferably by the same rivets that are used to join the links together-pieces of
leather, kamptulican, or other suitable composition.
1 curve or corrugate each link across the direction of its length, which allows it
to more easily pass round the pullys, and roll up, and it also provides the
necessary elasticity, the links straightening out when stretched upon the pullys.
For greater convenience for taking up slackness in belt, I make the links with a
slotted hole, to receive the rivets, one end of slot bigger than the other, so that the
rivet will enter the big end of slot and pull up tight. The rivets being rivetted, or
a groove formed in the sides of the rivets, for the links to enter, to hold them in
their place.
In the case of large belts, I make up the necessary strength by placing more than
one link together, one over the other, and by using more than one ribbon side by
side.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Driving Belts.
ALFRED SUITER 104 High Holborn Middlesex formerly of 174 Wandsworth
Road Surrey Mechanical Engineer 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 :—
There are many substances suitable for driving belts as far as the grip or tread
on the pullys they run on goes, but they are deficient in tensile strength to resist
the constant pull of the driving power.
The object of this invention is to so construct a belt that it can be built up of
any width or length from small inferior portions of leather, or any suitable
composition, and other substances, that it shall have great tensile strength, at the
same time be elastic, pass easily round a small pulley without moveable joints to
wear, and that it can be easily taken up or shortened, in case of it getting too slack
to drive.
In carrying out my invention I employ a ribbon, composed of links, made
preferably of thin steel, and joined end to end by a rivet or other suitable means.

page_text: This linked ribbon I use on the flat, upon the inner, or pully, side of which I
fasten preferably by the same rivets that are used to join the links together-
pieces of leather, kamptulican, or other suitable composition.
I curve each link across the direction of its length, which allows it to more
easily pass round the pulleys, and roll up, and it also provides the necessary
elasticity, the links straightened out when stretched upon the pulleys.
For greater convenience for taking up slackness in belt, in some instances I make
the links with a slotted hole to receive the rivets, one end of slot bigger than the
other, so that the rivet will enter the big end of slot, and pull up tight. The rivets
being rivetted, or a groove formed in the sides of the rivets for the links to enter, to
hold them in their place.
In the case of large belts 1 make up the necessary strength by placing more
than one link together, one over the other, and by using more than one ribbon side
by side.
That my invention may be more clearly understood reference may be made to the
accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan, of a
driving belt constructed according to my invention.
a. are separate stampings of thin steel forming the links; b, are the rivets; and
care the stampings of kamptulican; composing the separate portions of which the
belt is built.
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:-
:-
1st. In driving belts, the use of flexible- or springing-links substantially as
hereinbefore described.
2nd. The general construction and arrangement of parts forming a driving belt,
substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 26th day of November 1892
A. SUITER.