Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 11th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 12th Aug., 1887
I, JAMES BLACKWOOD, of 5 South Avenue, Govan, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be
as follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to improve the construction of such belts,
bands, or straps as are composed of links of leather or analogous material, and to
increase their strength and durability.
In carrying out my Invention I insert cores of steel or other suitable metal in
each link of leather or analogous material, such metal cores being of any suitable
form and taking or sustaining the tensional strain to which the belt, band, or strap
is subjected. In one modification the core consists of two eyes connected by a
middle bar or band, and the transverse pins or wires connecting the links together
are passed through these eyes. In another modification the metal core is made in
the form of an open link with half-round ends, these ends corresponding to the eyes
of the first modification and receiving and bearing on the transverse connecting pins
or wires. In a third modification the metal core is shaped somewhat like the letter, S,
that is with reversed hooks at its ends these hooks corresponding to the eyes and
receiving and bearing on the transverse connecting pins or wires. The leather or
other links are suitably punched to receive the metal cores, and these metal cores are
by preference made of a breadth equal to the thickness of the links or so as to have
their outer edges flush with the sides of the link.
Dated this Fifteenth day of October 1886.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Link Belts, Bands, or Straps.
I, JAMES BLACKWOOD, of 5 South Avenue, Govan, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Commercial Traveller, 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, that is to say:
My said Invention has for its object to improve the construction of such belts,
bands, or straps, as are composed of links of leather or analogous material, and to
increase their strength and durability.
In carrying out my Invention I insert cores of steel or other suitable metal in all
or some of the links of leather or analogous material, such metal cores being of any
suitable form, and taking or sustaining the tensional strain to which the belt, band,
or strap is subjected. And in order that my said Invention and the manner
- of performing the same may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of
explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to and representing examples of
links and belting as made with my improvements.
Figure, 1, is a face view and figure, 2, a longitudinal section as at right angles to
figure, 1, of one modification of my improved link. In this modification the metal
core, C, consists of two eyes connected and formed in one piece with a middle bar or
band; and the transverse pins or wires, P, (figure 5) connecting the links together are
passed through the eyes of the metal core, C. In another modification, shown in face
view in figure, 3, the metal core, C, is made in the form of an open link with half-
round ends, these ends corresponding to the eyes of the first modification and
receiving and bearing on the transverse connecting pins or wires, P. In a third
modification, shown in face view in figure, 4, the metal core, C, is shaped somewhat
like the letter, S, that is with reversed books at its ends, these hooks corresponding to
the eyes and receiving and bearing on the transverse connecting pins or wires, P.
The leather links, are suitably punched to receive the metal cores, C, and these metal
cores are by preference made of a breadth equal to the thickness of the links, or so
as to have their outer edges flush with the sides of the links.
Figure, 5, is an edge view and figure, 6, is a face view partly in section of a piece
of belting formed by combining the links together in the ordinary way by means of
transverse pins or wires, P. All the links of leather or analogous material composing
a belt, band, or strap, may be made with the metal cores, C; it will however generally
be convenient to have the outer lines of links without the metal cores; and in many
cases sufficient strength for the strain to which the belt, band, or strap is to be
subjected will be obtained by making only some of the lines of links with metal cores
the other lines of links being without metal cores. Thus one third, of the lines of

page_text: links may be made with metal cores for a comparatively small strain, one half for a
greater strain, and two thirds for a still greater strain. In the example shown in
figure, 6, about two thirds of the lines of links are shown as made with metal cores
the remainder being without.
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 making belts, bands, or straps of links of leather or analogous material
connected together as in what is known as "link belting," the inserting of metal
cores in all or some of the links substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.