Improvements in the Splicing or Joining of Woven and other Machine Bands or Belts.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 31st Dec., 1891-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Splicing or Joining of Woven and other
Machine Bands or Belts.
We, JOHN FENTON and JAMES HOUSTON FENTON of New Lanark in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Belting Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the splicing or joining of woven and
other machine bands or belts and has for its object to splice or join the belt without
increasing the thickness of the belt at the joint. The invention consists in splitting
the ends of solid woven bands with a knife or by means of a machine or other
instrument or the band may be woven in plies at the place where the joint is to be
made.
After the belt or band is split or divided up to the desired length of joint, two
out of four plies are cut away so as to leave the joint the same thickness as the
rest of the belt; the joining being effected by means of glue, cement or composition
or by means of laces, wire or hempen threads or riveted.
As a modification of our said invention we use all the four plies which have been
produced by the slitting, so as to produce an interlocking joint; this said joint
being more level with the rest of the band than is the case with the ordinary lap
joint.
Our said invention can be applied to all kinds of bands which are capable of
having their joining ends split.
Dated this 28th day of March 1891
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioners' Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Splicing or Joining of Woven and other
Machine Bands or Belts.
We, JOHN FENTON, and JAMES HOUSTON FENTON, of New Lanark, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Belting 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 :—
This invention relates to improvements in the splicing or joining of woven and
other machine bands or belts and has for its object to splice or join the belt without
increasing or materially increasing the thickness of the belt at the joint.
The invention consists in splitting the ends of solid woven bands with a knife or
by means of a machine or other instrument or the band may be woven in plies at
the place where the joint is to be made.
After the belt or band is split or divided up to the desired length of joint, two
out of four plies are cut away so as to leave the joint the same thickness as the rest
of the belt; the joining being effected by means of glue, cement or composition or
by means of laces, wire or hempen threads or riveted.
As a modification of our said invention we use all the four plies which have been
produced by the slitting so as to produce an interlocking joint; this said joint
being more level with the rest of the band this is the case with the ordinary lap
joint.
Figure 1 is a sectional edge view of a belt joined in accordance with our said
invention, in which two out of the four plies are cut away so that the belt at the

page_text: joint is of the same thickness as the rest of the belt; a are the stitches by means of
which the ends of the belt are sewn together as shewn in plan Figure 2.
Figure 3 is a sectional edge view of the other modification of our said invention,
so as to produce an interlocking joint.
Our said invention can be applied to all kinds of bands which are capable of
having their joining ends split.
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--
The improved mode of splicing or joining woven and other machine bands or
belts substantially as herein before described and shewn in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 20th day of Danamhan 1001
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.