Improved Device for Joining the Edges of Driving Belts.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 30th Nov.. 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Joining the Edges of Driving Belts.
I SAMUEL COok of Victoria Works, Bury in the County of Lancaster,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My said invention relates to an improved device to be used for joining
together the edges of driving belts for machinery for the purpose of obtaining
wide belts.
According to my said invention 1 provide on the edges of a plate of metal as for
example of lozenge shape prongs or projections at right angles thereto so shinped
that they may be driven through the adjacent edges of the belts to be joined
without the necessity of boring special holes. They may be then clenched or
turned over and beaten into the body of the belt on the side which comes into
contact with the pulleys.
Such devices are placed at suitable intervals along the belts and by this mēans a
wide belt may be formed which for instance at the centre may readily yield and
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accomodate itself to the contour of the pulloys over which the belt runs.
advantages obtained by my said invention are that there are no dangerous external
projections such as bolt or rivet heads, and on the inner side of the belt the
projections may be easily driven into the body of the belt and there is then no
inetal to come into contact with the pulleys.
Dated this 6th day of March 1893.
EDWARD TURNER WHITELOW,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Joining the Edges of Driving Belts.
I SAMUEL COOK of Victoria Works, Bury in the County of Lancaster,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to ho particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
My said invention relates to an improved device to be used principally for joining
together the edges of driving belts for machinery for the purpose of obtaining wide
belts and also for connecting the ends of driving belts.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understoɔd I will describe the
Bame with reference to the accompanying drawings.
I form integral with a plate of metal as shown for example at a in Figure 1
tongues band which are bent upwards at right angles to the plate as shown in
Figures 2 and 3.so that the flat surfaces of the tonguos care at right angles to
those of the tongues b. Figure 4 shows a form of the device with two sets of
tongues c. The tongues are pointed so that they may be driven through the belts
to be joined without any boring of special holes being necessary.
Figure 5 shows in plan as seen from the outside of the belt the application at A
of the device for connecting the adjacent side edges. The fasteuer is laid across
the belts and driven through by a hammer, the tongues which are sufficiently long
to project well through the belts are then bent over towards each other and are
hammered down into tho under surface of the belt as indicated by dotted linos.
With the devices thus placed at suitable intervals along the belt a wide belt may
be formed which for instance at the centre will readily yield and accommodato itself.

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to the contour of the pulleys over which it runs. At B in Figuro 5 is shown the
mode of applying the fasteners for joining the edges of the extreme en.ls of a belt
or of short belts to form a longer one. Figure 6 is a.section through - of
Figure 5 showing the 'tongues bent over but not yet hammered down into the
substance of the belt.
Figure 7 is a plan of one of the joints B as seen from underneath.
When hammered tight. down into the substance of the belt there is no metal on
the inside to come into contact with the pulloys nor does the exterior of the joint
present any dangerous projections such as bolt or rivet heads.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invon-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declaro that what I
claim is
A belt fastener consisting of a plate having integral therewith two sets of tongues
turned up at right angles to the plate in such a manner that the flat surfaces of one
Bet of tongues are at right angles to the flat surfaces of the other set so that when
driven through the belt and clenched the extremities of the two sets of tongues
approach each other as set forth.
Dated this 28th day of November 1803.
EDWARD TURNER WHITELOW,..
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.