Improvements in Woven Driving Belts.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Woven Driving Belts.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Newchurch, Lancashire, Belt Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to woven driving belts composed of cotton, hair, or
other fibrous material, and have for object the production in such belts of a safe
edge or edges of a special character to be hereinafter described.
To accomplish this, and to effect my improvements, I weave the main body of the
belting in the usual manner, but at certain intervals, as the shed opens, I cause to
be inserted therein by indentation, portions of a longitudinal strip or strips of
buffalo hide, or other durable substance, at each of the selvages, which indented
portions are thus woven in with the fabric, and the portions of the strips not woven
in, form a protecting edge or selvage of greatly increased durability, and without
the necessity of raw ends of the hide or other substance projecting at such
selvages.
The method of inserting, within the shed, portions of the strips or lengths of
buffalo hide or other durable material, may be varied, as, for instance, it may be
accomplished by a hand tool, or by an arrangement of pliers or forceps, or finger
arrangement, automatically operated somewhat similar to the wire motion of a
carpet loom, or of a coach lace loom, or by other suitable mechanical means, and
other variations in detail, such as the composition of the longitudinal strips, may
be made; and more than one strip may be employed at each selvage, without
departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
Dated this 21st day of February 1893.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Woven Driving Belts.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Newchurch, Lancashire, Belt 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:-
The improvements relate to woven driving belts composed of cotton, hair, or
other fibrous material, and have for object the production, in such belts, of a
"safe" edge or edges of a special character to be hereinafter described.
To accomplish this, and to effect my improvements, I weave the main body of
the belting in the usual manner, but at certain intervals, as the shed opens, I cause
to be inserted therein, by indentation, portions of a longitudinal strip or strips of
buffalo hide, or other durable substance, at each of the selvages, which indented
portions are thus woven in with the fabric; and the portions of the strips not
woven in, form a protecting edge or selvage of greatly increased durability, and
without the necessity of raw ends of the hide, or other substance, projecting at
Buch selvages.
The method of inserting, within the shed, portions of the strips or lengths of
buffalo hide, or other durable material, may be varied; as, for instance, it may be
accomplished by a hand tool, or by an arrangement of pliers or forceps, or finger
arrangement, automatically operated, somewhat similar to the wire motion of a carpet
loom, or of a coach lace loom, or by other suitable mechanical means; or, in lieu
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page_text: of such methods of direct insertion, the strips of hide may be so operated, by
means of healds, at each place of indentation, as to allow a weft thread or threads
to pass round ewch hide
form the indentation
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be readily understood; and other variations in detail, such as the composition of the
longitudinal strips, together with the degree of their indentation may be made;
and more than one strip may be-employed at each selvage, without departing from
the peculiar character of the invention.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, with the aid of the
accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
be readily understood; and other variations in detail, such as the composition of the
longitudinal strips, together with the degree, of their indentation may be made;
and more than one strip may be-employed at each selvage, without departing from
the peculiar character of the invention.
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But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, with the aid of the
accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. shews a portion of woven belting, arranged according to my improve-
ments, with strips of hide indented at the selvages by direct insertion, and Fig. 2.
shews a similar piece of belting with the strips indented by the pull of the weft
threads.
In each view, a portion of the upper surface of the woven fabric (as enclosed by
an uneven line) is supposed to be removed so as to more clearly shew the indentations
of the hide.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a. a. is the woven belting, and b. b the strips of hide or other durable material
indented at the points b¹ bl.
c. c. are sections of the weft threads which, according to the arrangement shewn
in Fig. 2, draw in the strips of hide to form the indentations; but it, must be
clearly understood that none of the separate warp or weft threads are shewn .in
the drawing, excepting the sections c. c. before-named, such warp and weft threads
not being necessary to be shewn, as they form the body of the woven belt, and are
omitted for the sake of clearness and convenience.
All the indentations 6' may be of any convenient depth, and, in the case of those
formed as in Fig. 2, they may be so shallow as to give the strip of hide the form
of a slightly waved line.
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 :-
Woven driving belts formed with safe edges consisting of longitudinal strips of
hide or other durable substances inserted or woven into the. selvages of the fabric
by means of indentations, at intervals in the length of such strips, for the purpose
and in manner substantially as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 20th day of November 1893.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,.
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.