Improved Means of Transmitting Power by Band Gearing.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1895--Accepted, 20th July, 1895
I CHARLES GUEST of 11 Lime Grove Longsight Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates to improved means of driving machinery or bicycles &
tricycles or the like.
In carrying out my invention I employ one or more flexible tubes made of
rubber woven fabric leather or any other suitable material or combination of
materials & filled with air or other vapour under pressure or filled with liquid or
both vapour & liquid & running over pulleys of any suitable shape. The said
tube or tubes may be either endless or may be made with ends & the said ends
connected or united together & I may employ the said tubes either by themselves
or in combination with any other means or method of transmitting power or in
combination with a chain cover or metallic band.
Dated this 15th day of September 1894.
Improved Means of Transmitting Power by Band Gearing.
I CHARLES GUEST of 222 Stratford Road Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Engineer, late of 11 Lime Grove Longsight Manchester in the County
of Lancaster 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 :-
My invention relates to the transmitting of rotary motion from one pulley to
another by means of a flexible tube filled with air or other vapour under pressure
& running over grooved pulleys.
In making a flexible tube according to my invention I take an india rubber tube
of say half an inch in diameter & join the two ends together by means of dissolved
rubber or other suitable solution.
I then insert a small valve similar to those used in pneumatic tyres & partly
inflate the tube or instead of partly inflating the tube I may fill it with chalk dust
or other powder or substance, to be afterwards removed through the valve hole, so
as to make it retain its shape.
I then wrap the india rubber tube round with canvas or other fabric, binding
the whole together with a suitable glue or solution, in such a manner that the air
pumped into the tube will be held under pressure.
Although I prefer the above system of making up my invention I wish it to be
understood that I do not confine myself to this system; I may cover my tube in a
straight length and join the ends up afterwards or, I may make it in a straight
length and seal up the ends and fasten the ends together by hooks or laces attached
to the binding fabric or, instead of binding the tube round with woven fabric I may
employ leather or any other suitable material.
Or, I may employ a tube other than of india rubber.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be employed, I declare that what
I claim is
First. An endless flexible tube capable of containing air under pressure and
running over grooved pulleys for the purpose of transmitting power or motion from
one pulley to the other.
Second. A hollow driving band either endless or having its ends joined or
fastened together, aud capable of containing air under pressure for the purpose of
transmitting power or motion from one pulley to another.
Third. The improved means of transmitting power substantially as hereinbefore
described.
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CHARLES GUEST.