Improvements in the Construction of Bands, Tapes, Ropes, Belts, and the like, specially applicable for Driving the Spindles of Spinning and Twisting Machinery, and for other suitable purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Bands, Tapes, Ropes, Belts,
and the like, specially applicable for Driving the Spindles of
Spinning and Twisting Machinery, and for other suitable
purposes.
I THOMAS SHAW of 3 Henry Street, Brighouse in the County of York, Wire
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the construction of the said bands, tapes, ropes, belts, and the like, I employ
an elastic or spring core made of metallic spiral wire of a round spherical roller
form but preferably of an oval or flat section.
Upon the said core is platted, braided, woven, wound, or otherwise formed a
coating or covering of various thicknesses of cotton, flax, hemp, leather or other
suitable substance.
The said bands, tapes, ropes, or belts may then be pressed into various shapes or
sections to suit their various requirements and coverings. The ends of the said bands,
tapes and the like are joined together by their outer coatings or coverings, being
overlapped and sewn together or formed into loops and joined by the ordinary
wire hook, or secured together in any suitable manner, so as to leave an even and
regular joint.
Any metallic wire may be used, but I prefer hard drawn iron or steel wire; also
the wire may be of any suitable section, preferably of an oval or flat section.
The wire core may be made from one or more strands of wire, and may be of one
or more cores.
By the aforesaid means there is no stretching or elongation of the bands, tapes
and the like, whilst there is sufficient elasticity to give the required but not
unnecessary friction, and they are not affected by the changes of weather or
temperature, and may be used for window blind rollers, picture cords, picking
straps, or for any other similar purposes, but are specially applicable for driving
the spindles of spinning and twisting machinery.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of April 1891.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
0 Improvements in the Construction of Bands, Tapes, Ropes, Belts,
and the like, specially applicable for Driving the Spindles of
Spinning and Twisting Machinery, and for other suitable
purposes.
I THOMAS SHAW of 3 Henry Street, Brighouse, in the County of York, Wire
5 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 :-

page_text: an elastic or spring form core A, made of metallic spiral wire, in round roller form,
but preferably of an oval or flat section.
Upon the said cores A is plaited, braided, woven, wound or otherwise formed a
coating or covering B, of various thicknesses of cotton, flax, hemp, leather or other
suitable substance, as and for the different driving purposes for which they are
used, and which said coverings in combination with the metallic cores form a non
stretchable band.
The said bands, tapes, ropes or belts may then be pressed or rolled into various
shapes or sections to suit their various requirements and coverings.
The ends of the said bands, tapes, and the like are joined together by their outer
coatings or coverings being overlapped and sewn or clenched together, or formed
into loops and joined by the ordinary wire hook, or secured together in any suitable
manner, so as to leave an even and regular joint.
Any metallic wire may be used, but I prefer hard drawn iron or steel wire; also
the wire may be of any suitable section, but preferably of an oval or flat section.
The spiral core may be made from one (or more) single wire, or from one or
more strands of wire, and the bands, belts, ropes and the like, may be made of one
or more lengths of such cores, and they may be formed of one or more of such
constructed cores and coverings.
By the aforesaid means there is no stretching or permanent elongation of the
bands, tapes, and the like whilst in working; they are placed at sufficient tension
to give the required but not unnecessary tension, and they are not affected by the
changes of weather or temperature, and may be used for window blind rollers,
picture cords, picking bands, or for any other similar purposes, but are specially
applicable for driving the spindles of spinning twisting and other machinery.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture of driving bands, tapes, ropes, belts and the like, having
metallic spiral core or cores, which in combination with the outer coatings or
coverings, possesses an elastic or spring form action in working, but at the same
time does not permanently elongate, as and for the purposes such as shown and
described.
cribeu.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of January 1892.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Patent Agent, Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.