IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE BELTING USED ELEVATING AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES." FOR ELEVATING AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Noah Greening and John Greening, both of
Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, Wire Manufacturers,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE BELTING USED
ELEVATING AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES."
FOR
ELEVATING AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES."
Sealed the 25th September 1874, and dated the 10th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Noah Greening and
John Greening at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 10th June 1874.
We, NOAH GREENING and JOHN GREENING, both of Warrington, in
the County of Lancaster, Wire Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE BELTING USED
FOR ELEVATING AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to that construction of wire belting which is
made with a series of wire coils, herein-after called coiled links, so hinged
or jointed together as to form a continuous wire belt capable of passing
round pulleys, and to which buckets or other receptacles may be

page_text: attached for elevating chemicals, grain, or other material, and for other
analogous purposes.
The coiled links are formed by first winding one or more continuous
pieces of flat, round, or square metallic wire several times round a
mandril, then continuing it across to a second mandril placed parallel
with the first, but at the required distance apart from it, round which
second mandril similar coils are formed but coiled in the reverse
direction; thence the wire is continued across again to the first mandril,
round which a second series of coils are formed, and so repeating the
coils alternately round each mandril until the desired width of belting is
obtained. The coiled links so formed with spaces between the coils are
then jointed together by placing the corresponding coils of the adjoining
links in such spaces, when by passing a tranverse straight piece of wire
through the coils an effective joint is obtained, and when a series of such
coiled links are so jointed together a wire belt is produced as and for the
purposes described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Noah Greening and John Greening in the Great
Scal Patent Office on the 10th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, NOAH ?
GREENING and JOHN GREENING, both of Warrington, in the County of
Lancaster, Wire Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the 2
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Noah Greening and
John Greening Her special licence that we, the said Noah Greening
and John Greening, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Noah Greening and John Greening,
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

page_text: and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE BELTING USED FOR ELEVATING AND OTHER ANALOGOUS
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Noah
Greening and John Greening, 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 in tlie Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent..
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NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Noah Greening and John
Greening, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 that construction of wire belting which is
made with a series of wire coils hercin-after called coiled links, so hinged
or jointed together as to form a continuous wire belt capable of passing
round pulleys, and to which buckets or other receptacles may be
attached for elevating chemicals, grain, or other material, and for other
analogous purposes.
The coiled links are formed by first winding one or more continuous
pieces of flat, round, or square metallic wire several times round a
mandril, then continuing it across to a second mandril placed parallel
with the first but at the required distance apart from it, round which
second mandril similar coils are formed but coiled in the reverse
direction; thence the wire is continued across again to the first mandril,
round which a second series of coils are formed, and so repeating the
coils alternately round each mandril until the desired width of belting
is obtained. The coiled links so formed with spaces between the coils
are then jointed together by placing the corresponding coils of the
adjoining links in such spaces. When by passing a transverse straight
piece of wire through the coils an effective joint is obtained, and when
a series of such coiled links are so jointed together, a wire belt is
produced as and for the purposes described.
And in order that this our said Invention may be the more readily
seen and understood we have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings
illustrating several views of our improved wire belting all drawn about:

page_text: views.
Fig. I. represents a plan, and Fig. 2 an end view of one of the coiled
links constructed in accordance with our Invention, and shewn distinct
and separate from the other portion of the belting. Fig. 3 is a plan,
and Fig. 4 an end view of a piece of belting constructed of a series of
our improved coiled links hinged or jointed together in accordance with
our Invention.
Fig. 5 illustrates an end view of the periphery of a pulley of somewhat
small diameter, with a piece of our improved wire belting passing round
it for the purpose of clearly shewing that the straight portion of the
wire links constituting our improved belting are not subjected to any
bending and subsequent straightening action even in passing round a
pulley of such small diameter.
In all the views A represents the straight portion of the individual
coil links, B the right hand coils, and C the left hand coils; each of
these coiled links is by preference formed of one single piece of wire, as
seen in Fig. I., extending from one edge of the belting to the other, but
coiled in reverse directions alternately so as to leave a space D between
cach coil for the insertion of the coil of the adjoining link. This coiling
in reverse direction may be accomplished upon a pair of mandrils or
rods of suitable diameter placed parallel to one another at the desired
distance apart to give the length of link required, and in so constructing
our improved coiled link we commence at the left-hand side of the
nearest mandril by holding one extremity of the wire, and by coiling
the other end of such wire round such mandril the desired number of.
coils in the direction from right to left, we then pass the wire under the
other mandril, and coil such wire round the same in the reverse
direction, viz., from left to right, until the desired number of coils is
wound upon that mandril, when the wire is again brought back to and
over the first mandril, and the same coiling operation repeated upon
each mandril alternately until the desired width of coil. link is
obtained.

page_text: When a series of these coiled links are placed together to form a
continuous length of belting, as seen in Fig. 3, a transverse piece of
wire E is passed through the coils, which being turned up at each
extremity as illustrated is so prevented coming out of place and
effectually joints the coiled links together. Instead of these transverse
wires E bolts may be substituted with a nut or washer at either or both
ends, or a loop may be formed at each extremity of the transverse wires
E instead of turning up their extremities as illustrated in Fig. 3. The
feature of our Invention is the coiling each wire link in reverse and
alternate directions, as seen best in Figs. 2 and 4, by which means a
stronger belting is obtained than when the coils are all in the same
direction as hitherto practised in the manufacture of wire belting,
besides which the straight portions A. of the wire links are prevented
touching the periphery of the pulley as is the case when the coils are all
in the same direction with the straight portion of the links parallel to
each other; this contact of the straight part of the wire links with the
periphery of the pulley have hitherto had a tendency to bend or curve
such wire links in passing round the pulleys, and such links becoming
immediately straight again as soon as they have ceased their contact
with the periphery of the pulley. This bending and straightening of
the links in wire belting has necessitated the coils being made closer
together than is necessary, say when such coiled links are constructed
according to this Invention, and thus we are unable to produce a cheaper,
more durable, and better article.
Instead of using a single wire as illustrated upon the Drawing in
forming our improved coiled links we sometimes employ two or more
wires either of flat, round, or square cross section in the construction of
our improved belting, and we regulate the distance between the axes
of the coils, according to the purpose for which the belting is required.
We have found that our improved construction of belting is not only
suitable for elevating and other analogous purposes, but that it is also
applicable for driving some classes of machinery..
:
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
our said Invention, together with the best methods with which we are
acquainted for carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be
understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details,
relative proportions, or dimensions shewn on the accompanying Drawing

page_text: and hercin-before described, as the same may be considerably varied
without departing from the Invention, but what we claim is, the con-
struction of wire belting with coil links coiled in alternate directions,
substantially as and for the purposes herein-before described and
illustrated on the accompanying Drawing:
In witness whereof, we, the said Noah Greening and John
Greening, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth
day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.
NOAH GREENING. (L.S.)
JOHN GREENING. (L.S.)