AN IMPROVED MEANS OF SPLICING OR JOINING STRAPS OR DRIVING BELTS FOR MACHINERY
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Dyson, of Lindley, near Huddersfield, in
the County of York, Spinner, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MEANS
OF SPLICING OR JOINING STRAPS OR DRIVING BELTS FOR MACHINERY."
Sealed the 24th July 1866, and dated the 25th January 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Dyson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
January 1866.
I, GEORGE DYSON, of Lindley, near Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Spinner,do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
MEANS OF SPLICING OR JOINING STRAPS OR DRIVING BELTS FOR MACHINERY," to be
as follows:
This Invention consists in the construction and application of a pair of
metal plates to be placed one on each side and across the joining ends of a
strap or belt, which are laid end and end together. One or more screws are
passed through one plate and secured into the other at the joint of the strap or
belt, which nip and hold the plates tightly thereon. A series of pins variously
arranged and of suitable lengths according to the thickness of the strap or
belt are fixed on one of the plates and pass through holes punched in the
strap, entering holes provided in the other plate to receive them.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Dyson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th July 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DYSON, of Lindley, near Huddersfield, in the County of York, Spinner, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred andsixty-six,in the twenty-ninth yearof Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Dyson, Her special licence that I, the said George Dyson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Dyson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "AN IM.
PROVED MEANS OF SPLICING OR JOINING STRAPS OR DRIVING BELTS FOR MACHINERY,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Dyson, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 he filed 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 1, the said George Dyson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and bythe following
statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say) :-
1
This Invention consists in the construction and application of a pair of
metal plates to be placed one on each side and across the joining ends of a
strap or belt, which are laid end to end together. One or more screws are
passed through one plate and secured into the other at the jointing of the
strap or belt, which nip and hold the plates tightly thereon. A series of

page_text: pins variously arranged and of suitable lengths according to the thickness of
strap or belt are fixed on one of the plates, which pass through holes punched
in the strap and enter holes provided in the other plates to recieve them.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the outside plate, which has a central hole for
the screw A to pass through, and a series of pins B to pass through holes
punched in the two ends of a strap or belt. Fig. 2 is plan of the inside
plate having a boss C, which is tapped to recieve the screw A and holes D
to recieve the pins B. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the two plates placed in the
position for putting together. Fig. 4 and 5 shew the plates applied and
secured on a strap or belt E. Fig. 6 is plan of a plate with dog teeth or
pointed pins thereon, shewing a modification in the construction of these
jointed plates; and Fig. 7 is an edge view of a pair of such plates put
together, in the application of which the teeth are pressed into the strap,
thereby avoiding the punching of holes. It will be observed that these plates
are curved so as to pass over the surfaces of pullies, and it will be evident
that they may be made of any suitable size and form, with any number of
pins or teeth therein, also with more than one screw to hold them together
when desirable.
By means of this Invention straps or belts may be securely spliced or their
ends jointed together,and when they are required to be taken up or shortened
these plates may be readily unfastened for the purpose of cutting a portion of
the strap away and again replaced.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Dyson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-firstdayof July, Onethousand eighthundred
GEORGE DYSON. (L.s.)