Improvements in Fasteners for Driving and other similar Belts.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL, SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fasteners for Driving and other similar Belts.
We, SAMUEL OGDEN, of West Mosley Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, and EDWARD WELSBY, of Wales House, Newchurch-in-
Rossendale, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to means for connecting straps bands and belts such as
are used for driving machinery and for conveying grain and other like purposes,
the object being to provide means for making a butt or flush joint without projecting
parts and without materially adding to the weight of the belt or reducing its
flexibility.
A fastener constructed according to and for the purposes of this invention
consists of a strip in one or more plies of raw hide such as is commonly known as
"buffalo hide " or of other analogous flexible material possessing similar tensile
strength, from one surface of which points or teeth project to a sufficient distance
to firmly engage with the substance of the belt and preferably to be clenched on
its opposite side. The pins points or teeth may be of mild steel or brass wire and
they may be formed and inserted in the same manner as the dents of the cards
used in the preparation of jute and similar fibrous materials, or they may consist
of short wire nails driven through the raw hide at suitable distances apart. If
the teeth or pinions be inserted when, the raw hide is in a damp condition, it will,
on drying, hold them quite firmly, in consequence of the shrinking of the hide,
but if it be desired to prevent their being accidentally removed from their places,
a backing of raw hide or similar material may be secured over the fastener by
cement rivets or otherwise.
The teeth or points and the backing also, may be omitted along a transverse
width at the centre of the fastener, just above the line of abutment or junction of
the ends or edges of the belt to be connected.
Instead of making the fastener of a continuous strip of raw hide, it may be made
of two strips, the contiguous ends of which may be notched and returned or opened
so as to form alternate loops, these loops being connected by a pin in the manner
of a butt hinge.
Dated this 14th day of Anril A.D. 1892.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fasteners for Driving and other similar Belts.
We, SAMUEL OGDEN of West Mosley Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, and EDWARD WELSBY of Wales House, Newchurch-in-
Rossendale, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, 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 means for connecting straps bands and belts such as
are used for conveying grain for driving machinery and for other like purposes, the
object being to provide means for making a butt or flush joint without projecting
parts and without materially adding to the weight of the belt or reducing its
Alexibility.
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page_text: A fastener constructed according to and for the purpose of this invention consists
of a strip on one or more plies, of raw hide such for example as that commonly
known as buffalo hide, or of other analogous flexible material possessing similar
tensile strength, from one surface of which pins points or teeth project to a sufficient
distance to firmly engage with the substance of the belt, and preferably so far as !
to be turned or clenched on the under side.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner this invention may be
carried into practical effect.
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In these drawings :-
Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 an inverted plan of one form of the fastener as
applied to a driving belt.
Figure 3 is a plan, Figure 4 an inverted plan, and Figure 5 a side view of a
modified form of the fastener also shewn as applied to a driving belt.
Figure 6 is an end view of one of the sets of teeth or points used in the fastener
represented by Figures 3, 4 and 5.
Figure 7 illustrates in what way the teeth or points may be turned or clenched
on the under side of the belt by means of the tool represented in plan by Figure 8.
A A' are the ends of the belt to be joined. B is the strip of raw hide or similar
material; and CC are the points or teeth projecting therefrom.
In the form of the fastener represented by Figures 1 and 2, the teeth consist of:
the limbs or staples C¹ such as are used in binding books or pamphlets, but of
stronger construction. The raw hide is well soaked in water, and the staples are
then inserted therein, preferably in two rows on each side of the joint as shewn in
the figures, and so that the staples in one row break pitch with those in the other
row. Upon the drying of the hide, shrinkage occurs which binds the staples
firmly. In using the fasteners the ends of the belts are brought parallel with each
other at an average distance of about a quarter of an inch, which may be more for
use with small pulleys, and less for large pulleys. The points or teeth C of the
fastener are then driven through the ends of the belt, and are turned down and
clenched as shewn at C, Figure 2. It will be observed that the teeth or points:
are limited to that portion of the strip near the ends, which are, when in use, over
the ends of the belt, and are absent over the actual junction, where they would be
useless.
In the modification represented by Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 the teeth are formed
projecting at right angles from a triangular strip of steel or brass D. As the teeth
are formed from the same metal as the triangular part, they are flat and thin, with
two planes parallel and one at right angles to them. Except in the case of large
belts, one row of these sets of teeth on each side of the joint as shewn by Figures 3
and 4 will suffice, and it will be seen that the teeth break pitch with each. other
and thus distribute the strain equally over the width of the belt.
Instead of the especial constructions of teeth represented by the drawings, short
nails or pins of brass or mild steel may be inserted in the raw hide, and more than
one layer or thickness of the hide may be used if desired. In the case of more
than one layer of raw hide being used, one of the layers may be used as a backing
only;.the teeth being inserted through the other layer or layers, or they may be
inserted through both or all of the layers.
The tool represented by Figure 8 consists of a steel wire E inserted in the
handle F and provided near its end with the eye G. To use the tool, its eye is
placed over one of the projecting teeth, and the handle is then turned through
less than a right angle as shewn by the dotted lines Figure 7. The tool is
then removed, and the bent tooth is hammered down level with the surface of the
belt.
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 :-
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page_text: having pins or teeth projecting from one of its surfaces, constructed substantially
as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. In belt fasteners in which teeth project from a strip of raw hide or similar
material, forming the teeth as projections from the angles of a triangular piece of
sheet metal, and bending them at right angles thereto, substantially as hereínbefore
described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of February A.D. 1893
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicants.