Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1887
Complete Left, 16th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar., 1888
I WILLIAM TATHAM of Vulcan Works, Rochdale in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Maker do hereby declare the nature of the said invention, to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to belts to be used between two cone drums, where one cone
druni drives another cone drum, such arrangement of cone drums being used in
Roving and slubbing frames for preparing fibrous materials and in other machines.
Hitherto it has been found difficult to get uniform driving between cone drums
when the power to be transmitted from one cone drum to the other was so great as
to necessitate a wide belt-and the object of my invention is to be able to use a narrow
and flexible belt of sufficient strength.
My invention consists in combining a narrow belt or surface for driving cone drums
with a wide or other belt for giving strength.
Such belts may be constructed in a variety of ways one is by stitching or otherwise
securing the narrow driving surface upon another belt to give strength.
My improved belt is or may also be constructed by combining together woven or
other suitable material which will give the required strength and flexibility.
Dated this Fourteenth day of May 1887.
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Belts for Driving between Cone Drums
or Pulleys.
I WILLIAM TATHAM of Vulcan Works Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Maker, 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 belts to be used between two cone druins, where one cone
drum drives another cone drum, such arrangement of cone drums being used in
Roving and slubbing frames for preparing fibrous materials and in other machines.
Hitherto it has been found difficult to get uniform driving between cone drums
when the power to be transmitted from one cone drum to the other was so great as
to necessitate a wide belt and the object of my invention is to be able to use a
narrow and flexible belt of sufficient strength.
My invention consists in combining a narrow belt or surface for driving cone
drums with a wide or other belt for giving strength.
Such belts may be constructed in a variety of ways, one is by stitching or
otherwise securing the narrow driving surface upon another belt to give strength.
My improved belt is or may also be constructed by combining together woven or
other suitable material which will give the required strength and flexibility.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation (the belt shown in section) and fig. 2 is an end sectional
elevation of a belt for driving between cone drums or pulleys according to my
invention.
a and a represent the cone drums, 6 the narrow belt which gives adhesion, secured
by stitching or otherwise to the broad belt b¹ which gives strength. In some cases
the belt has or may have strips of metal & across at intervals to stiffen it
transversely.
Belts in this form are or may be constructed of leather or any suitable composition
or combination of materials used for making ordinary driving belts.
Woven bands of fibrous material are or may be used and they are or may be
strengthened by strands of wire interwoven therewith.
According to one modification of my invention jointed chains are used to give
strength, which chains are outside the leather or other composition belt to work
against and give adhesion on the cone drums.
Fig. 3 shows a side view of such a jointed chain and fig. 4 an end view of
the same.
Each link of the chain is formed by pieces of metal cast, or blocked, stamped or
otherwise made in the form shown, each link having two sides united by a plate ;
to which the leather or other belt b is united by rivets c, or stitching to every other
link or every second or fourth link as desired.

page_text: d is the outside link having two sides d' united by a plate d, e is the inside link
having two sides e united by a plate e, are the joint pins connecting the links.
The links e may be plain solid links if desired.
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,
In driving belts or arrangements for transmitting rotary motion from one cone
drum to another, the construction of the belts or arrangements with a narrow part
to give adhesion and work upon and against the cone drums combined with a wide
belt of any suitable material, or with a chain of any suitable construction to give
strength and flexibility substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
drawings.