Improvements in Ventilated Dress Belts and in Tools to be Employed in their Production.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ventilated Dress Belts and in Tools to be
Employed in their Production.
I, ISAAC EVANS of Lionel Street in the City of Birmingham Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the kind of dress belts, called ventilated, consisting of a
series of narrow straps, joined nearly edge to edge, but leaving vent spaces between
the adjacent strap edges.
My invention consists 1st., in ventilating dress belts by perforating the middles or
bodies of the same with ornamental openings, spaces, gaps or the like-2ndly, in tools
to be employed in the production of the said perforations.
In carrying out the first part of my invention, I take an ordinary plain leather
band, and by cutting out tools, I pierce or perforate the same at intermediate distances,
with ornamental gaps or openings; and which said perforations extend to within a
short distance of the ends of the said belt, and within short distances from the opposite
sides of the belt. Thus, the ornamental gaps or cut out parts are separated from
each other by uncut away portions of the leather of the belt, and when silk or other
fabric is placed at the back of the said perforations, a highly ornamental and venti-
lated belt is produced.
When the belt is employed with a fabric backing, the color of a garment is shown
through the perforations or openings.
The patterns of the openings preferably run parallel with the direction of the belt,
but to this I do not limit myself, as varying patterns may be employed, without
changing the object, or nature of my invention; and further, although I have stated
that the open-work perforations which form the vents are ornamental, yet the said
vents may be made by slitting the band longitudinally, crosswise or obliquely, into
semi-divided bar-shaped gaps.
The piercing tools consist of cutters, of the shape of the perforations to be made,
and when scolloped inner edges are required, the concaves of the scollops are turned
or presented to the outside or cutting edge of the tool, instead of on the front inside
edge as is ordinarily done for cutting out leather for various purposes.
Thus, in the tools employed by me, the pattern is upon the outside edge, whether a
perforated tool be made in one, two, or more parts.
By thus constructing perforating tools, scollops are made upon the inside edges of
a piercing, which has not hereto-fore been done.
If necessary, the belts may be made up of short lengths of perforated work, which
are subsequently joined together by stitching, looped rings, or other attachments.
Dated this Thirteenth day of April 1889.
ISAAU EVAND.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ventilated Dress Belts and in Tools to be
Employed in their Production.
I, ISAAO EVANS, of Lionel 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 :-
This invention relates to dress-belts, called ventilated, and consisting of, a series of

page_text: narrow strands, or strap lengths, joined edgewise together, and with intervening spaces
between them, which thus forms the ventilating means.
My invention consists 1st in. ventilating dress belts by perforating or piercing the
same, with ornamental, or other openings, spaces, gaps, or the like. 2ndly in tools
to be employed in the production of scalloped perforations.
In carrying out the first part of my invention, I take an ordinary plain leather
band, and by cutting ouf tools, I pierce or perforate the same, at intermediate
distances, apart; with ornamental gaps or openings, extending within a short
distance of the ends and edges of the band; constituting the belt. Thus the
ornamental openings, or cut out parts, are seperated from each other, by solid.
parts.
The openings or piercings may have silk or other fabric, placed. at the back of
them, on the inner side of the band.
When the belt is used without a fabric backing the color of a garment, with which
it is worn,
shown through the perforations or openings.
Although I have stated that the open work. perforations, which form the vents,
are ornamented. yet the said vents may be made after the manner of slitting.the
band, longitudinally, crosswise or obliquely into semi-divided bar-shaped gaps..
The piercing tools consist of cutters, of the shape of the perforations to be made..
and when scalloped inner edges are required, the concaves of the scallops are turned
or presented to the outside, or cutting edge of the tool, instead of on the front
inside edge as is ordinarily done, for cutting out leather, for various purposes.
Thus, in the tools employed by me, the pattern is upon the outside edge,..whether
a perforating tool be made in one two or more parts.
As an alternative method of making, the belts may be made up, of a number
of short lengths of perforated leather or other work, instead. of from a single
length.
Objects, such as watch pockets, carried by the belt, can be ornamented..in manner,.
as aforesaid.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing,. represents a ventilated dress belt, made
according to my invention. It will thus be seen, that the means of ventilation,
resides in the openings or piercings, directed along the body of the band; constituting
the said belt.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal vertical section, of the said belt.figure 1, uponi
the dotted lines A B.
Figure 3 represents a short length of a band, for a ventilated belt, of a different
pattern to that of figure 1.
Figure 4 shows the band-pattern,, of another ventilated belt.
The said ventilated belts, or the band. lengths to form them, must be considered
only as selected examples of the means of carrying out my invention rather than ası
invariable standards.
Figure 5 shows a transverse section of a ventilated dress belt, and figure 6
represents a like ventilated dress belt. as figure 4, provided with. a backing, or back
covering of silk or colored fabric.
Figure 7. represents a front elevation of the piercing punching or cutting out
tool, employed in the cutting out of the scalloped or pinked edged middle openings
figure 1 and 2.
Figure 8 is an underside plan of the said tool, whilst figure 9, is a transverse
vertical section of the same, taken on the dotted lines C D.
In figures 1 and 2, a is the band of the belt, b are scalloped or pinked middle
openings, or piercings, and o are intermediate plain ones:
In figures 3 and 4, a are belt bands, and bic, are middle and intermediate plain
piercings.
La figure 6 the band a, and piercings b, c, are provided, with a backing, of silk
or colored fabric d, which is seen from the front, through, the said: piercings; b
and c.
The piercing tool, figures 7, 8, and 9, consists essentially of a hollow body part-e;
.

page_text: with a pinked or scalloped cutting edge ƒ, with set off, or divisional cutting parts ƒ³,
with the scallopings f' between them.
g is the hollow of the die, wherethrough the pierced or cut out parts, upwardly
pass.
The concaves of the pinkings or scallopings f, on the outside cutting edge of the
tool, produce the inside convex scallopings of the piercings 6 figure 1.
b
The outside of the tool tapers downwards, whilst the inside is practically parallel,
and upwardly ribbed, alike unto the pattern of the cutting-out tool.
From the drawings and description hereof, it will be understood that the pattern
of the object to be cut out, is upon the outside of the cutting edge of the tool."
Instead of a pattern being cut out by a single tool as aforesaid, two or more cutters
may be used.
It will also be seen that the pinkings are seperated from each other, by divisional
spaces or set-offs 62, 63, corresponding to the divisional cutting parts f, of the cutting
out tool, (see the enlarged view figure 10).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-.
First A ventilated dress bell, consisting of a band or bands, pierced with
ornamental or other openings, gaps, or apertures made out of the leather or material
of the said band or bands, substantially as described and set forth in figures 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, and 6.
Secondly: Ornamenting the inside boundary edges of the openings or piercings,
of ventilated dress belts, of the kind as herein described, with pinkings or scallopings,
having divisional spaces, or set-offs between them, whereby the said pinkings, or
scallopings are individualised, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly Forming or disposing the pattern of a pinking or scalloping cutting out
tool or punch, for the pinking of the boundary edges of openings or piercings of
ventilated belts, upon the outside cutting edge of the said tool, substantially as
described and set forth in figures 7; 8, and 9.
Fourthly: A pinking or scalloping and cutting out tool or punch, with intervening
set offs f constructed substantially as described and set forth in figures 7, 8, 9,
and 10.
Dated this 14th day of January 1890.
ISAAC EVANS.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.