AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF MACHINE BANDS, CABLES, CORDAGE, AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1876

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LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF MACHINE BANDS, CABLES, CORDAGE, AND OTHER FABRICS."
A communication from abroad by Pierre Ernest Gégnon, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 16th September 1876, and dated the 29th March 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1870.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
"AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF MACHINE BANDS, CABLES,
CORDAGE, AND OTHER FABRICS."
This Invention relates to the manufacture of machine bands, ropes, cables, and
fabrics for various purposes, composed wholly or partially of brass wire of any
suitable gauge which is first covered with hair or bristles, and then formed into
strands of which a number are twisted together and woven or braided into a fabric,
the weft being composed of single strands, and the warp of a number of strands
twisted together, or vice versa. The rope, cable, or fabric thus obtained is then
heated to about 150° cent. for the purpose of rendering the hair viscous and causing
it to adhere to the wire. The same result may also be attained by the application
of pressure and a suitable cement without the aid of heat. I may also enclose the
ropes, cables, or fabrics, thus made in an envelope of india-rubber, rubber fabric, or
gutta percha, or coat them with any suitable composition of a like nature (but this
is not essential), after which the whole is passed between rolls or otherwise subjected
to pressure. The product thus obtained is not liable to stretch or break, and may
be used among other purposes for machine bands, envelopes, or strainers, or in oil
and stearine works, floor and other coverings, and for the manufacture of all kinds
of cordage.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on tho
21st September 1876.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
"AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF MACHINE BANDS, CABLES,
CORDAGE, AND OTHER FABRICS." A communication from abroad by Pierre Ernest
Gógnon, of Paris, France.
This Invention relates to the manufacture of machine bands, ropes, cables, and fabrics
for various purposes of brass, steel, iron, or other metal wire of any suitable gauge
which is first covered with a filamentous or fibrous material, such as hair, horeshair,
pigs' bristles, catgut, hemp, flax, wool, jute, phormium, cocoa-nut fibre, alpha, fibres
of plants of the genus agave, aloes, esparto, cane strippings, bast, or seaweed. The
wire thus covered is then formed into strands of which two, three, four, or more are
spun or twisted together, and by weaving or braiding manufactured into a fabric of
which the warp is composed of such compound or twisted strands, and the weft of
single strands, or vice versa. The rope, cable, or fabric is then heated to about
300° Fah, whereby the hair or other covering is rendered viscous and caused to
adhere to the wire. The same result may also be obtained without heat by applying
a suitable coating and subjecting to pressure. I then apply to the rope or cable or
to both sides of the fabric a sheet of india-rubber, india-rubber composition, or gutta
percha; or I coat them with a composition of a like nature, and I then pass the
article between rolls or otherwise subject it to pressure. The article thus made is
not liable to stretch or break, and may be used among other purposes for machine
bands, for envelopes or strainers in oil and stearine works, for floor cloths, for
coverings for other surfaces, for sheathing, and for the manufacture of all kinds of
cordage.
I reserve the right according to the purpose to which the article is to be applied
of using strands of brass wire covered with hair only spun or twisted, and with or
without a coating of india-rubber or other composition, and also to employ with or
without any coating or covering the fabrics made therewith.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same,
I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of machine bands,
ropes, cables, envelope strainers, and other fabrics of wire covered with filamentous
or ligneous materials (preferably hair or bristles) then heated or coated with a
suitable composition, and if necessary subjected to pressure, the wire thus covered
being afterwards twisted together and manufactured as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)