Improvements in Fastening the Ends of Flat Driving or other Belts or Bands and in the Means Employed therefor.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 25th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th July, 1887.
Improvements in Fastening the Ends of Flat Driving or other
Belts or Bands and in the Means Employed therefor.
1 ARTHUR WALTER DEATH of 13 Aylestone Road, Leicester in the County of
Leicester, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a special kind of fastener for joining the ends of all kinds
of flat belting, but more especially canvas, cotton or other woven belting, instead of the
laces, rivets or bolts ordinarily used whereby I preserve the pliability and strength of
the belts both transversely and longitudinally the jointing and unjointing is effected
with greater facility and the disadvantages of a tapped joint are obviated.
According to my invention I use a sufficient number-in proportion to the width
of the belt, of pieces of metal (preferably brass wire) each being made to a hooked or
curved shape at one end so as to pass readily through a hole made in the belt (and
which end is afterwards closed down tightly on to the belt) and at the other end it is
shaped or formed into an eye or hook or attached to a loose link as preferred, at right
angles to the curved end, and through which when being used the hooked or curved
shaped end of a corresponding piece or pieces is introduced before being passed
through the belt. If wire is used such link can be made by bending the wire from
its centre until the ends touch and then both the ends formed into a corresponding
hooked or curved shape for passing through the belt together.
The above described pieces when thus linked and closed down form rows of chain
firmly attached to the belt yet allowing it to retain its pliability. The final jointing
where the ends of the belt butt together is done either by linking the two end
fasteners of each chain into each other and through the belt (in which case it is advisable
that such end fasteners should only be half the length of the others and that one
set of them should have hooks at right angles and the other set eyes in a right line
with the curved part which passes through the belt) or by a "link" that is to say a
fastener having both ends curved towards each other so that they can be passed
through the end holes of the belt and through my improved fasteners and closed down
on the underside in a similar manner to the fastener ends.
Dated this 25th October 1885
EDWIN P. ALEXANDER, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Fastening the Ends of Flat Driving or other
Belts or Bands and in the Means Employed therefor.
I ARTHUR WALTER DEATH of 13 Aylestone Road, Leicester in the County of
Leicester, Engineer 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 fasteners for joining the ends of all kinds of flat belting
but more especially canvas, cotton or other woven belting, instead of the laces, rivets
or bolts ordinarily used whereby I preserve the pliability and strength of the belts
both transversely and longitudinally the jointing and unjointing is effected with
greater facility and the disadvantages of a lapped joint are obviated.
According to my invention I use a sufficient number, in proportion to the width
of the belt, of fasteners consisting of pieces of metal each bent (by preference) to a
curve at one end so as to pass readily into and project through a hole or holes made
in the belt near the junction ends thereof said projecting bent part being afterwards
closed down tightly onto the belt to secure the fastener in position. At the other
end of the said piece or fastener there is a hook or an eye as the case may be, if a
hook it is bent in the reverse direction to the before mentioned curved end and if an
eye it is by preference of oblong form to receive the flattened hook on the adjoining
end of the corresponding fastener and is disposed at right angles in plan to the afore-
said curved end. The fastening or joining together of the ends of the belt is effected
by hooking the fasteners secured therein into each other.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 of the Drawings annexed represents a side elevation and corresponding
plan of my belt fastening hook detached.
Figure 2 represents similar views of the corresponding fastening eye.
Figures 3 and 4 are detached plan views of a hook and eye each formed with two
curved or bent ends.
Figure 5 is a plan of a portion of a belt showing its ends joined together according
to my invention by the said hook and eye fasteners and Figure 6 is a longitudinal
section of the belt showing the fasteners in side elevation secured therein and connected
together.
A is the hook fastener, and B the eye fastener. a and b are the bent or curved ends
or tail pieces of the respective fasteners which are passed through suitable holes made
near the ends of the belt C. The bent or curved portion or portions a or 6 of each
fastener is or are by preference of a rounded section so as to pass more readily through
the belt but the part wherein is formed the coupling hook or eye cor d is by preference
flattened and expanded in width as shown clearly in Figures 1 and 2. The dotted

page_text: lines in Figure 6 show the bent or curved tail pieces a and b in position as when first
inserted and the full lines show the same when closed tightly to the belt in which
position they should extend up to the edge of the belt thereby compressing and
strengthening the weaving and preventing it from fraying out, c and d show respec-
tively the connecting hook and eye of the fasteners the hook is by preference flattened
and the eye of oblong form to correspond, the throat of the hook and the eye being
disposed at right angles in plan to the bent or curved parts a and b.
Upon the above mentioned flattened parts on the underside one
jections e may be made to give additional holding power to the fastener by being
pressed into the belt.
or more pro-
The ends c and d of the fasteners are by preference so bent as to lie wholly or
partly within the space between the contiguous ends of the belt and thus present as
little projection as possible on the exterior surface of the belt as shown clearly in the
longitudinal section Figure 6.
When necessary suitable eyelets may first be let into the belt for additional
support and to facilitate the insertion of the said parts into and through the belt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
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For fastening or joining together the ends of flat driving or other belts or bands
the application and use of pieces of metal cach having at one end one or more bent or
curved tail pieces of suitable shape for passing through a hole or holes in the belt onto
or against which they are afterwards closed tightly and at the other end being shaped
or formed into an eye or a hook as the case may be for attaching or connecting to
each other as specified.
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Dat
ated this 25th day of Jui
June 1887.
A. W. DEATH.
By Edwin P. Alexander, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
Agent for the Applicant.