IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING STRAPS OR BELTS AND PICKING ARMS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Roberts and Squire Roberts, of Cleck-
heaton, in the County of York, Cord and Strap Manufacturers, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING STRAPS
OR BELTS AND PICKING ARMS."'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Roberts and
Squire Roberts at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 17th September 1875.
We, SAMUEL ROBERTS and SQUIRE ROBERTS, of Cleckheaton, in the
County of York, Cord and Strap Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
DRIVING STRAPS OR BELTS AND PICKING ARMS,' "to be as follows :—
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The object of this Invention is to fasten or secure together & “double
strap," also to fasten the joinings or splicings of a single or double
strap, whether employed for driving machinery or employed in "picking
arms" used in weaving or other purposes, and the improvements consists
in passing the leather or other material forming such strap or picking

page_text: arm through an ordinary cord setting machine, which inserts wire into
and through the material at suitable distances apart in the form of
staples or "dents," with the ends or points thereof projecting through
the material, which points are afterwards flattened or pressed down on
the back of the strap to hold the two picces together and prevent them t
The fastening or pressing down the projecting points or ends of the
staples is effected by passing the strap through a pair of rollers or other
equivalent.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Roberts and Squire Roberts in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 16th March 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
ROBERTS and SQUIRE ROBERTS, of Cleckheaton, in the County of York,
Cord and Strap Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Samuel Roberts and Squire
Roberts, Her special licence that we, the said Samuel Roberts and
Squire Roberts, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Samuel Roberts and Squirc Roberts, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with and no others,
-from-time-to-time-and-at-all-times-thereafter-during-the term-therein=
expressed, should and lawfully-might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING STRAPS OR BELTS AND PICKING ARMS,'" upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Samuel Roberts and Squire
Roberts, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner- the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed

page_text: in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Samuel Roberts and Squire
Roberts, do hereby declare the nature of our said 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 :-
The object of this Invention is to fasten or secure together a “double
strap," also to fasten the joinings or splicings of a single or double
strap, whether employed for driving machinery or employed for "* picking
arms" used in weaving or other purposes, and the improvements consist
in passing the leather or other material forming such strap or picking
arm through an ordinary card setting machine, which inserts wire into
and through the material at suitable distances apart in the form of
staples or "dents," with the ends or points thereof projecting through
the material, which points are afterwards flattened or pressed down on
the back of the strap to hold the two pieces together, and prevents them
being torn asunder.
The flattening or pressing down the projecting points or onds of tho
staples is effected by passing the strap through a pair of rollers or other
equivalents.
By these means it will be seen that we are enabled to fasten the joints
of straps, and to make double strapping, and picking arms, and "side
straps for weaving far more expeditiously and at less cost than by
sewing or stitching with laces as hitherto.
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The staples may be made either of steel, iron, copper, brass, zinc, tin,
or other suitable metal or material, and the projecting points or ends
may be flattened down in a variety of ways.
The strap may be placed upon an iron plate, and by means of a
hammer flattened or revitted, or by passing the strap between iron
rollers.
Having now described the nature of this Invention, and the.manner
in which the same may be carried into effect, we would have it under-
stood that we do not confine ourselves to the means or method of
flattening or revitting the projecting points of the staples; but what we
claim and believe to be new within the realm is, the splicing or making
of single or double straps and picking arms by passing one, two, or more
"

page_text: pieces of leather together through a card setting machine, or a machine
similarly constructed, for the purposes herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Roberts and Squire
Roberts, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth
day of March, One thousand eight. hundred and seventy-six.
SAMUEL ROBERTS. (L.s.)
SQUIRE ROBERTS. (L.S.)