Improvements in Leather Link Belting.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1889.
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 4th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Leather Link Belting.
I, JOHN KEIL TULLIS, of the firm of John Tullis & Son, St. Ann's Leather Works,
John Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Leather
Belt Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to leather link belting.
In link belting as ordinarily made at present the rivets which connect the links are
exposed at the edge of the belt and are liable to be injured and have their heads
knocked off through rubbing against parts of the machinery when in motion.
The object of this invention is to protect the rivets by providing a cover, which
may be made of leather, hide, gutta-percha, india-rubber, or both gutta-percha and
india-rubber in combination with cloth or other substance, canvas, paper, or other
suitable material. The leather, bide, or other material which is to form the protection
is cut into pieces about the same breadth and thickness but longer than the links of the
belting. These pieces are fastened by rivets at one end all along the edge of the belt.
The other end of each piece is left free, and projects over the rivetted end of the
next preceding piece. Thus the rivets of each piece are covered by the loose end of
the succeeding piece, and when the ends of the belt are joined together the rivets in the
last piece are covered by the loose end of the first piece.
Dated this 30th day of December 1889.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Leather Link Belting.
I, JOHN KEIL TULLIS, of the firm of John Tullis & Son, St. Ann's Leather Works,
John Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Leather
Belt Manufacturers, 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 leather link belting.
In link belting as ordinarily made at present, the rivets which connect the links
are exposed at the edge of the belt, and are liable to be injured and have their
heads knocked off through rubbing against parts of the machinery when in motion.
The object therefore of my invention is to protect the rivets from such injury.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended one sheet of drawings, of which Figure 1 is a plan of
a piece of belting showing my improvements; and Figure 2 is a side view of the
same in both figures corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of
reference.
I provide covers A, which may be made of leather, hide, gutta-percha, india-rubber,
or both gutta-percha and india-rubber in combination with cloth or other substance,
canvas, paper, or other suitable material. These covers A are cut into pieces about
the same breadth and thickness, but longer than the links b of the belting. These
pieces or covers A are fastened by rivets c at one end all along the edge of the
belting B. The other end of each piece or cover A is left free, and projects over
the riveted end of the next preceding piece or cover. Thus the rivets c of each
piece or cover A are covered by the loose end of the succeeding piece, and when
the ends of the belting B are joined together the rivets c in the last piece or
cover A are covered by the loose end of the first piece or cover.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
In leather link belting, the covers or pieces A riveted to the edge of the belting
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shown on the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1890.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.