Improvements in Metallic Conveying Belts.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Conveying Belts.
We, NATHANIEL GREENING, Managing Director, and N. GREENING & SONS
LIMITED, Wire Manufacturers and Metal Perforators, both of Crown Street
Warrington in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to metallic belts used for conveying coal, ores, and other
materials, and its objects are to reduce the cost of such belts, to simplify their
construction, to facilitate repairs, and to secure increased durability.
The belt constructed according to these improvements consists of a series of
transverse perforated strips of metal, preferably mild steel, arranged side by side
and connected together by means of suitable links or equivalent devices which will
permit the necessary motion of each strip relatively to the other to enable the belt
to pass around the pulleys.
Each transverse strip may have parallel oblong perforations formed in it so as to
cause it to resemble a narrow grid. The links or equivalent connecting devices
may be of any convenient form, a suitable one resembling a flattened C the opposite
ends of which are engaged in opposed perforations of two contiguous strips. As
many of the connecting links may be employed for joining each pair of strips as
may be necessary; for example, they may be used at intervals of three, four, or six
inches across the width of the belt as may be required by the work to be done.
Dated this 1st day of December A.D. 1892.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Conveying Belts.
We, NATHANIEL GREENING, Managing Director, and N. GREENING & SONS,
LIMITED, Wire Manufacturers and Metal Perforators, both of Crown Street,
Warrington, 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 :-
This invention relates to metallic belts used for conveying coals, ores, and other
materials, and its objects are to reduce the cost of such belts, to simplify their
construction, to facilitate repairs, and to secure increased durability.
The belt constructed according to these improvements, consists of a series of
transverse perforated strips of metal, preferably mild steel, arranged side by side
and connected together by suitable links or equivalent devices which will permit
the necessary motion of each strip relatively to the others to enable the belt to
pass around pulleys.
Each transverse strip may have parallel oblong perforations formed in it so as to
cause it to resemble a narrow grid. The links or equivalent connecting devices
may be of any convenient form, a suitable one resembling a flattened C, the
opposite ends of which are engaged in opposed perforations of two contiguous strips.
As many of the connecting links may be employed for joining each pair of strips
as may be necessary; for example, they may be used at intervals of three four or
six inches across the width of the belt as may be required by the work to be
done

page_text: The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner this invention may be
carried into practical effect.
Figure 1 is a partial plan,
Figure 2 a side view of Figure 1, and
Figure 3 a plan of one of the links.
A A are the strips which have a length equal to the width of the belt, and have
the perforations B formed in them at such distances apart as may be requisite.
These perforations should be formed in the same relative positions in each of the
strips so that they may come in lines when the strips are ranged side by side. The
links are denoted at C in each of the figures.
In the drawings each pair of perforations in two contiguous plates is shewn as
being connected by a separate link, but in practice only so many links would be
used as might be required by the strength of the belt and the service required of it,
and the form of the link may be varied.
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-
A metallic conveying belt constructed substantially as herein before described
and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of September A.D. 1893.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicants.