Improvements in Wire Belts Employed in the Construction of Screens, Elevators, and Analogous Apparatus.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1885.
Complete Left, 7th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Aug., 1887.
Improvements in Wire Belts Employed in the Construction of
Screens, Elevators, and Analogous Apparatus.
I, NATHANIEL GREENING of Crown Street Warrington in the County of Lancaster
Wire Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction of wire belting employed in the manu-
facture of screens, elevators and the like apparatus and these Improvements have for
their object to increase the strength and consequently the durability of such belting.
These Improvements consist in constructing the belts with a series of links which
in plan have a flattened U shape, or more precisely, from a metallic bar or stout wire
bent twice at right angles so that the ends of the bar or wire become nearly parallel.
The upper ends of each link are looped round the middle part of the following link
near the angles so that in this condition the connected links form a kind of flexible
ladder.
Those parts of the links corresponding to the staves of the ladder are then connected
by coiled wire links of smaller section constructed substantially as described in the
specification to Letters Patent granted to Noah Greening and John Greening
number 2019 dated the 10th June 1874.
The construction of the belting being more symmetrical and the parts having to
endure the greatest stress and wear being also the strongest, the durability and
efficiency of the belting are greatly increased.
Dated this 6th day of October A.D. 1886.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
70, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Screens, Elevators, and Analogous Apparatus.
I NATHANIEL GREENING of Crown Street Warrington in the County of Lancaster
Wire 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 the construction of wire belting employed in the manu-
facture of screens elevators and the like apparatus and has for its object to increase the
strength and consequently the durability of such belting.
These Improvements consist in constructing the belts with a series of links which
in plan have a flattened U shape, or more precisely, from a metallic bar or stout wire
bent twice at right angles so that the ends of the bar or wire become nearly parallel..
The upper ends of each link are looped round the middle part of the following link
near the angles so that in this condition the connected links form a kind of flexible
ladder. Those parts of the links corresponding to the staves of the ladder are then
connected by coiled wire links of smaller section constructed substantially as
described in the specification to Letters Patent granted to Noah Greening and John
Greening number 2019 dated the 10th June 1874.
The construction of the belting being more symmetrical and the parts having to
endure the greatest stress and wear being also the strongest, the durability and
efficiency of the belting are greatly increased.
And in order that this my Invention may be more readily understood and carried
into effect I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings and will now proceed to
describe the same.
The Figure represents in plan a portion of a chain constructed according to these
Improvements.
A, A. B, B. C, C, are the short connecting links of which A, A, are the straight
connecting pieces and B, C, the portions of the links coiled around the bars of the
principal links. These are constructed and arranged as described in the Specification
to Letters Patent No. 2019 of 1874 hereinbefore referred to. E, E, are the principal
links the outer ends of which are turned at nearly right angles to the central portion
and looped to the following link at the angles as shown at D, D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I desire it to be understood that I
do not claim the coiled links A, B, C. but that what I do claim is :-
In wire belts employed in the construction of screens elevators and analogous
apparatus; the combination of the principal links E, E, with the coiled connecting
links all constructed and arranged substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 6th day of July A D 1887
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for Applicant.