IMPROVED MEANS OF JOINING LEATHER OR OTHER MATERIAL IN THE CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIRING OF STRAPS OR DRIVING BELTS FOR MACHINERY
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Dickinson, of Leeds, in the County of
York, Machine and Tool Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS
OF JOINING LEATHER OR OTHER MATERIAL IN THE CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIRING
OF STRAPS OR DRIVING BELTS FOR MACHINERY."
Sealed the 1st May 1868, and dated the 4th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Dickinson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th-November-1867.-
I, WILLIAM DICKINSON, of Leeds, in the County of York, Machine and
"IM-
Tool Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
PROVED MEANS OF JOINING LEATHER OR OTHER MATERIAL IN THE CONSTRUCTING
OR REPAIRING OF STRAPS OR DRIVING BELTS FOR MACHINERY," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to join leather or other material in the
constructing or repairing of mill straps or driving belts for machinery effectually
at a small cost, and the improvements consist in the employment of nails or
headed and pointed pins of wrought iron or other suitable metal, which I drive
through the two parts to be joined together, and then I place on each of the
projecting points of the said nails or pins a tin or other metallic washer or bur,
which is pressed or driven down on the leather or other material by means of
[Price 8d.1

page_text: a hollow punch and hammer, the projecting points or end being afterwards
nipped off by ordinary wire nippers or any other suitable instrument, and the
nails or pins are rivetted. When constructing or making double belts, that is,
in employing two thicknesses of leather or other material one layer upon
another layer in the construction of straps or belts, such nails or pins are
inserted throughout their whole length and rivetted therein in a similar manner
as in the joining of the ends.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Dickinson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, WILLIAM
DICKINSON, of Leeds, in the County of York, Machine and Tool Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Dickinson, Her special licence that I, the said William Dickinson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Dickinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agrec
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed. should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS OF JOINING
LEATHER OR OTHER MATERIAL IN THE CONSTRUCTING OR REPAIRING OF STRAPS
OR DRIVING BELTS FOR MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Dickinson, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Dickinson, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-

page_text: The object of this Invention is to join leather or other material in the
constructing or repairing of mill straps or driving belts for machinery effectually
at a small cost; and the improvements consist in the employment of nails or
headed and pointed pins of wrought iron or other suitable metal, which 1 drive
through the two parts to be joined together, and then I place on each of the pro-
jecting points of the said nails or pins a tin or other metallic washer or "burr,"
which is pressed or driven down on the leather or other material by means of
a hollow punch and hammer; the projecting points or ends are nipped off by
ordinary wire nippers or any other suitable instrument, and the said nails or
pins are then rivitted. When constructing or making double belts, that is in
employing two thicknesses of leather or other material, one layer upon another
layer, in the construction of straps or belts, such nails or pins are inserted
throughout their whole length and rivitted therein in a similar manner as in
the joining of the ends.
Having now particularly described the nature of my Invention, and the
mode of carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I claim
as my Invention the application and use of nails or headed and pointed pins
of wrought iron or other suitable metal and washers or "burs" to form or
constitute rivits in the construction or repair of mill straps or driving belts
for machinery.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Dickinson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.