IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY- BELT-FASTENERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I, WILLIAM JOHN BREWER, C.E. 2, Victoria Mansions, Westminster S. W. London,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY-
BELT-FASTENERS" to be as follows:-
The different methods hitherto used to fasten the ends of a belt, have the great
inconvenience, that the draught and the tension of the belt acts only upon those
parts by which the uniting of the both ends is effected, for instance upon the holes
for the rivets or leather-strips only.
In order to prevent this inconvenience and to carry the draught and the tension
of the belt on its whole breadth and thereby gain its whole strength, I employ a
fastening-device as follows:
After having placed both ends of the belt together, holes for rivets are stamped
out of the leather near both ends of the belt, in such a way that two holes are
punched near the left and right margin, whilst other holes, when necessary, are
placed intermediatly and in liue with the other holes, already formed.
Then two strips of copper, or other suitable metal, having corresponding holes,
are placed opposite to the holes in the belt and rivetted firmly together. One
or more of these fasteners may be employed.
The top and bottom strips of metal have corrugations or indentations on their
inner surface, touching the belt.
The rivets for fastening these strips together may be cast on said strips or
otherwise.

page_text: I WILLIAM JOHN BREWER 2 Victoria Mansions Westminster S.W. 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:
The different methods hitherto used to fasten the ends of a belt have the great
inconvenience that the draught and the tension of the belt acts only upon those
parts by which the uniting of the both ends is effected for instance upon the holes
for the rivets or leather strips only.
In order to prevent this inconvenience and to carry the draught and the tension
of the belt on its whole breadth and thereby gain its whole strength I employ a
fastening device as shown in the drawings.
Figs. 1 and 2 show back and front views of my fastener attached to a belt.
Fig. 3. Section on line A. B.
After having placed both ends of the belt b together holes for rivets a are
stamped out of the leather near both ends of the belt 6 in such a way that two
holes are punched near the left and right margin whilst other holes when necessary
are placed intermediately and in line with the other holes.
Then two strips of copper or other suitable metal c and d having corresponding
holes are placed opposite to the holes in the belt b and rivetted firmly together by
rivets a.
The top (c) and bottom (d) strips of metal having indentations on their
surfaces as shown so that between the concave side of the top strip cand the convex
side of the lower strip d the two ends of the belt bare pressed and securely held
by the rivets a as shown. The rivets for fastening these strips together may be
cast on said strips or otherwise. One or more of these fasteners may be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
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1. The strips of metal c and d with rivets a arranged as shown for securing the
ends of the belt b substantially as and for the purposes described or any mere
modification thereof.
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