Improvements in, and in the Manufacture of, Woven Driving Belting.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, [29th July, 1898
Complete Specification Left 27th Anr 1899 Accented
27th May 1800
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in, and in the Manufacture of, Woven Driving Belting.
We, F. REDDAWAY & Co. LIMITED, of Cheltenham Street, Pendleton, Man-
chester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Woven Machine Belting
and Hose, and GAYLARD MACK, Weaving Manager with the said Firm, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our said invention relates to woven driving belting, and has reference to
means whereby belts of varying widths may be readily made up according to
requirements, thus obviating the necessity of stocking large quantities of belting
in different widths to meet any possible demand.
In carrying our invention into effect we weave the belting in comparatively
narrow longitudinal strips and we build up a belt to any desired width from
such strips.
The edges of the strips are woven in such a manner that they may be readily
sewn together with or without the stitches going through the body of the belt.
To effect this we weave the strips so that any number of warp or weft threads
or both are woven together at each edge of the strips, so as to form a loop or
other weave.
The strips of belting designed to form the outside strips in a built up belt
would be formed with the loop weave on one side only. The loops are then
sewn together, if desired loosely so as to form to some extent an open space
between the contiguous strips or the loops may be drawn tightly together.
We do not confine ourselves to the loop weave as the edges of the strips may
be woven satin or other suitable weave. In this case the edges are or may
be sewn closely together.
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A convenient way of effecting this is to place the two strips to be connected
one upon the other and secure the edges together by hand sewing or by a suit-
able machine, the stitches being passed either through the edges only of the
strips or through the body thereof.
Thus any desired width of belting is readily built up, and instead of con-
necting the ends of such belt in one place only as usual, each strip may be
connected at a point remote from the connection of the contiguous strip so us
to break joint.

page_text: Improvements in, and in the Manufacture of, Woven Driving Belting,
We, F. REDDAWAY & CO. LIMITED, of Cheltenham Street, Pendleton, Man-
chester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Woven Machine Belting
and Hose, and GAYLARD MACK, Weaving Manager with the said Firm, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying drawings:-
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Our said. invention relates to woven driving belting, and has reference to
means whereby belts of varying widths may be readily made up according to
requirements; thus obviating the necessity of stocking large quantities of belting
in different widths to meet any possible demand.
In carrying our invention into effect we weave the belting in comparatively
narrow longitudinal strips and we build up a belt to any desired width from
such strips.
The edges of the strips are woven in such a manner that they may be readily
sewn or connected together, with or without the stitches or fastenings going
through the body of the belt.
Our invention will be clearly understood from the following description, when
read in conjunction with the annexed sheet of diagrams, in which; :-
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of three strips of belting woven in accordance with
our invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 represents a slight modification.
Figs. 4 and 5 show a modified method of connecting narrow strips of belting
together.
Fig. 6 is a plan view of a belt built-up of three strips, and shows the way such
a belt may be spliced.
woven
In carrying our invention into effect we weave the narrow longitudinal strips
of belting a so that, any number of warp or weft threads or both are
together at each edge of the strips so as to form a loop or other weave, as indicated
in Fig. 2.
The strips of belting a designed to form the outside strips in a built-up belt,
would be formed with the loop weave on one side only, as clearly indicated in
the drawing.
We may form the loops, at intervals along the edges of the belting so that
when the strips come together the loops on adjacent strips alternate (as shown
in Fig. 2), or the loops may be continuous throughout the length of belting (as
indicated in Fig. 3).
To connect a number of strips of belting woven in the improved manner the
loops are sewn, laced, bound, or otherwise secured together.
If desired, the loops may be connected loosely, so as to leave to some extent
an open space between the contiguous strips, or the loops may be drawn tightly
together.
We do not confine ourselves to the loop weave, as the edges of the strips may
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be woven satin or other suitable weave. In this case the edges are or may
be sewn closely together.
This modification is shown in Figs. 4 and 5.
A convenient way of connecting two strips having their edges woven "satin "
is to place the two strips bb upon or against each other, as indicated in Fig. 4,
and secure the edges together by hand sewing or by a suitable sewing machine,

page_text: the stitches being passed either through the edges only of the strips or through
the body thereof. When the connection is complete the strips may be turned
down into line with each other, as shown in Fig. 5.
By means of our invention, any desired width of belting is readily built-up,
and instead of connecting the ends of such belt in one place only as usual, each
strip may be connected at a point remote from the connection of the contiguous
strip, 'so as to break joint, as indicated in the diagrammatic plan view Fig. 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
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1) Weaving driving belting in narrow longitudinal strips formed with a looped
edge or edges, or with "satin " edges, in the manner, for the purposes, and
substantially as herein described and shown.
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2) The improved driving belting built up of a number of strips woven with
looped or satin" edges, the strips being connected together in the manner, and
substantially as herein described and shown.
Dated this 26th day of April 1899.
For the Applicants,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 5, John Dalton Street, Manchester.