CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN STRAPS AND BANDS
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WHARTON, Superintendent at the Euston Square Station, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most. Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of February, One thousand eight hundred and
forty-six, in the niuth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Wharton, my exors,
admiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Wharton, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William Wharton, my exors, admors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey,
Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also in all Her Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN STRAPS AND
BANDS" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said William Wharton, to particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and to cause the same to be
enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar

page_text: months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Wharton, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried into effect,
to be as the same are described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto
annexed, and in which said Sheet of Drawings similar parts are marked and
reterred to by similar letters or figures.
My Invention is applicable to straps and bands used for harness, sus-
pending carriages, driving machinery, securing luggage, or other purposes,
and consists in forming such straps or bands by a combination of metal wires
with leather, or with the material called gutta percha, or with leather and
gutta percha together. And I will now proceed to describe the means by
which I propose to carry my said Invention into effect.
Figure 1 represents parts of two straps A and B buckled together, respec-
tively formed in different modes of my said Invention. Figure 2 is a trans-
verse section taken through the line A, B, Figure 1. Figure 3 is a transverse
section taken through C, D, Figure 1. To form the strap A upon the
lower strip of leather B+ I lay a strip of leather C, of about half the width of
and shorter by about the width than the strip of leather B+; and along one
edge of such strip C, and resting on the strap B+, I roughly stitch or sew a
strand of metal wire D, and continue such strand so sewn or stitched up to
and round the extremity of such piece of leather C, and continue the same
down the other side thereof so sewn or stitched; and upon the tivo strips of
leather and metal wire so sewn or stitched together I lay another strip of
leather B+, of the same width as the strap B+, and firmly secure the whole
together by four rows of stitching, after which the edges may be trimmed
and dressed and the tongue holes punched, and the strap is completed. It
is desirable that the strip of leather C should be equal in thickness to the
diameter of the strand of wire. To make the strap B I form two grooves.or
channels a, b, of the width and depth of half the wire strand, along the
surface and near the edges of the lower strap B+, and lay in each groove a
strand of metal wire; and on the leather and strands of wire I lay another
strip of leather correspondingly grooved, and stitch the same together, as
before described.
Figure 4 is a side view of a robin or small brace for springs of broughams
and other carriages formed according to my said Invention; Figure 5 is an

page_text: edge view with a portion of the exterior removed; and Figure 6 is a transverse
section through e, f, Figure 4. To make this brace I form a coil of about
eight turns of a strand of wire, and insert within the coil a strip of leather
bent to the required shape, and place on the outside another strip of leather
with the ends joined together, and stitch the inner and outer leather firmly
together at the edges and between the interstices of the coil.
Figure 7 is a plan view of a tug for harness with parts removed to shew
the interior; and Figure 8 is a side or edge view with parts shewn in section;
and Figure 9 is a transverse section through g, h, Figure 7. To make this
tug I proceed as described with reference to Figure 1, so far as the strap part
is concerned; and where the buckle is fixed each end of the wire strand is
carried round the part of the buckle on which the tongue works, and is then
secured firmly by twisting and stitching or splicing the ends to the main
strands.
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Figure 10 is a portion of a round rein or other strap; and Figure 11 is a
section of the same taken through 1, m. To make this rein or strap I bend
a strip of leather around a wire strand, and stitch the two edges together.
To fasten this rein or strap to a buckle I open the end of the wire strand,
and pass one half on one side and the other half on the other side of the
tongue of the buckle and round the part on which the tongue works, and
then fasten the ends to the main strand of wires.
Figure 12 is the splinter bar end of a trace for a brougham or other
carriage, with part removed; and Figure 13 is a section through o, p,
Figure 12. To make this trace I proceed as described with reference to B,
Figure 1, inserting, however, three strands instead of two; and I secure the
end of each wire as described in Figures 7 and 8. When traces are made
with three strands of wire, as described, the middle strand must be divided
before it reaches the buckle tongue holes at the point, and the two divided
portions laid alongside the two outer strands or joined thereto. No wire is
requisite in the handle part p.
Figure 14 is one end of a strap or brace for the top of the spring of a
brougham or other carriage; Figure 15 is a longitudinal section through r, s,
Figure 14. I form the strap part of this brace in the manner described with
reference to B, Figure 1, and pass the ends of the wire strands round a
metal pipe piece, and secure them as described in reference to Figure 8. To
make driving bands for machinery or endless bands I either proceed as
described in reference to A or B in Figure 1, and secure the ends of the straps
so formed by stitching or riveting or other convenient means, or I form a flat

page_text: hank of metal wire upon a reel or drum, and cover the sam as directed in
reference to Figures 4 and 5. For driving bands I prefer that the wire strands
should beof copper; butfortracesand straps for harness and for carriage springs,
and other straps in which stretching is to be guarded against T prefer the use
of strands of iron wire. The wire strands may be plaited or woven instead of
twisted, or flat instead of round, and may be merely coated with melted gutta
percha. To prepare the material known as gutta percha I proceed as follows:-
After properly heating it I form the same into strips or straps, of the required
length and thickness, suitable for the purpose for which they are intended,
and join the parts together, or attach the ends to buckles, or combine the
same with wires by stitching in the same manner as leather is stitched, or by
heating the parts to be united and compressing them together. For all or
any of the strips of leather forming the straps or bands above described the
material called gutta percha, prepared as herein-before directed, may be
substituted, and may be stitched in the same way as leather, or joined by
heating and compressing the surfaces together.
And I wish it to be understood, that although I have referred to the
Drawings hereunto annexed in order to illustrate my Invention I do not
limit or confine myself to the precise details of the methods described of
forming straps or bands by a combination of metal wires with leather, or with
the gutta percha, either alone or together with leather, or to the size of wires,
or to any particular sizes and thickness of gutta percha or leather, as such
details must be varied to suit bands or straps of different sizes, in accordance
with the various purposes for which they are required.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed and carried into practical effect, I desire
it to be distinctly understood that I do not claim the separate use of any of
the materials above mentioned and referred to in the formation of straps and
bands, but only when such materials are used in combination. And I declare
that what I claim is, the forming straps or bands, for the purposes herein-
before described, by combining metal wires with leather, or with the material
called gutta percha, or with leather and gutta percha together, as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Wharton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-six
WILLIAM (L.S.) WHARTON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Tenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid William Wharion came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesai, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
7.
Enrolled the Tenth day of August. in the year of our Lord One