AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BANDS FOR DRIVING MACHINERY AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Spill and Daniel Spill, both of Stepney Green,
in the County of Middlesex, Mauufacturers, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BANDS FOR DRIVING MACHINERY
AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 31st January 1860, and dated the 9th November 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Spill and Daniel
Spill at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
. on the 9th November 1859.
We,
GEORGE SPILL and DANIEL SPILL, both of StepneyGreen, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BANDS FOR
MACHINERY AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
DRIVING
Our Invention consists in forming bauds for driving machinery, hauling
up cages in mines, towing. boats on canals, and for various other purposes, in
which great tensile strength is necessary, by combining a band or strip, or
bands.or. strips of steel or other metal, with any other materials suitable for
the purpose, such as textile fabrics, felts, caoutchouc, gutta percha, and
various.other. materials and compounds..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Spill and Daniel Spill in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th May 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
SPILL and DANIEL SPILL, both of Stepney Green, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said George Spill and Daniel Spill, Her special licence that we, the said
George Spill and Daniel Spill, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said George Spill and Daniel Spill, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BANDS FOR DRIVING
MACHINERY AND FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said George Spill and Daniel Spill, or one of us, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their,
or one of our or 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 we, the said George Spill and Daniel Spill, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists in forming bands for driving machinery, hauling up
cages in mines, towing boats on canals, and for various other purposes, in
which great tensile strength is necessary, by combining a band or strip, or
bands or strips of steel or other metal, or metal wire with any other materials
suitable for the purpose, such as textile fabrics and various other materials,
as hereafter stated.
We take a strip or band or wire of steel, or other metal, though we prefer
steel, and cover it with one or more strands of hemp cord, previously passed

page_text: through a solution of caoutchouc, gutta percha, glue, drying oils, gums,
resins, tar, pitch, or other glutinous, gelatinous, or siccative materials. After
the strands have been applied, we pass the covered strip, band, or wire
through rollers, in order to solidify the covering. We then take any required
number of the covered inetal bands, strips, or wires, and use them as warps
in a loom or weaving machine, and we employ hemp cord or other like fibrous
materia! previously steeped or covered with a solution of caoutchouc or any
of the other before-mentioned materials, or not, as wefts, and weave the
whole together. After the weaving we pass the fabric produced through
rollers, to render it flat and smooth, and applybefore or after so doing a solution
of caoutchouc, gutta percha, or a coat of paint, or any other desired material.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim the manu-
facture of bands, by weaving together covered strips of metal with cords of.
hemp or other fibrous material in manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said George and Daniel Spill, have hereunto
set our hands and seals, this Eighth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty.
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Witness,
WILLIAM WILDE,
Havelock Villa, St. John's Wood.
GEORGE SPILL. (L.S.)
DANIEL SPILL.
(L.S.)