Improvements in or connected with Woven Driving Belting.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Woven Driving Belting.
We, F. REDDAWAY & Co. LIMITED, of Cheltenham Street, Pendleton, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Woven Machine Belting and Hose, and
GAYLARD MACK, Weaving Manager, with the said firm, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our said invention relates to improvements in or connected with woven driving
belting used for the transmission of motion in machinery as is well understood.
We have found in practice that the inner face of such woven driving belting by
continued frictional contact with the pullies becomes worn and cracked thus
prematurely affecting the life of the belting.
The object of our invention is to overcome this defect which we do by increasing
the strength and resistance to wear of that face of the belting designed to be in
frictional contact with the pullies.
In carrying our invention into effect we weave one face of the belting intended to
be in frictional contact with the pullies stronger than the centre or other face of the
belt. This we do by introducing an increased number of warp threads, say double
the number used in the rest of the thickness of the belt. The belt is thus formed
with a double face as it were, and thus increased resistance to wear and tear due to
friction is obtained at the part most needed and as a consequence the life of the belt
is consequently lengthened.
Further by thus introducing this increased number of warp threads upon the inner
face as described the belt has a natural tendency to curl and thus more readily
embraces the contour of the pullies around which it is passed.
Improvements in or connected WICH WOVO
We, F. REDDAWAY & CO. LIMITED, of Cheltenham Street, Pendleton, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Woven Machine Belting and Hose, and
GAYLARD MACK, Weaving Manager, with the said firm, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed; to be

page_text: particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement that is
to say :-
Our said invention relates to improvements in or connected with woven driving
belting used for the transmission of motion in machinery as is well understood.
Such belting is generally woven with a plain weave the belting being thus less liable
to stretch.
We have found in practice that the inner face of such woven driving belting by
continued frictional contact of the projecting weft threads with the pullies becomes
worn and cracked thus prematurely affecting the life of the belting.
The object of our invention is to overcome this defect which we do by increasing
the strength and resistance to wear of that face of the belting designed to be in
frictional contact with the pullies.
In carrying our invention into effect we weave one face of the belting intended to
be in frictional contact with the pullies stronger than the centre or other face of the
belt. This we do by introducing in the contact face an increased number of warp
threads, say double the number used in the reverse face of the belt. The belt is
formed with a double face as it were, the weft threads are buried and thus increased
resistance to wear and tear due to friction obtained at the part most needed, and
as a consequence the life of the belt is necessarily lengthened.
Further, by thus introducing this increased number of warp threads upon the inner
face as described the belt has a natural tendency to curl and thus more readily
embraces the contour of the pullies around which it is passed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
1) Weaving driving belting with a contact face formed of double the number
or thereabouts of warp threads than the number used in the reverse face of the belt
for the purposes and substantially as described.
2) The improved woven driving belting provided with a contact face of an increased
number of warp threads to the number used in the thickness of the belt, for the
purposes and substantially as described.
D
11
st day of December 1838.
For the Applicants,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 5, John Dalton Street, Manchester.