Improvements in Belts for Driving, Elevating, Winding, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Mar.,: 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Belts for Driving, Elevating, Winding, and
the like.
We, ROBERT BIBBY JONES, GEORGE PATON and WILLIAM THOMPSON
PATON all of 36 Chapel Street in the. City of Liverpool, Managing Director,
Manager and Fitter, respectively of Rope Works, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a driving belt which shall be both light and
remarkably strong and shall have more wearing capacity than the ordinary canvas
belts.
We form the main body of the belt of hemp, flax, or other strong fibre. The
warps are composed of two or more strands or yarns twisted by either hand or
machinery into a strong cord, the tension being kept very great so that all stretch
is taken out of the cord. The cords are then woven into a flat or in some instances
into a round or other shaped rope, the warps running the length of the rope. The
woven band is then covered on its faced side and round the edges or partly on the
back with leather, canvas, gutta-percha, rubber or other solution or like material;
the rope is thus protected on the edge, the leather or canvas-faced side is the
driving surface.
The leather or canvas is bound to the rope by means of cement or adhesive
solution, or is stitched to it by hand or machinery, or a combination of these
methods is adopted.
In order to bind up the ends of the belt the warped threads are left without weft
near the end and the belt is spliced therewith. By this means the ordinary laces
and belt fasteners are done away with.
Dated the 25th of April 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Belts for Driving, Elevating, Winding, and
the like.
We, ROBERT BIBBY JONES, GEORGE PATON and WILLIAM THOMPSON
PATON all of 36 Chapel Street in the City of Liverpool, Managing Director,
Manager and Fitter respectively of Rope Works, 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 has for its object a belt for driving elevating winding and the like
which shall be both light and remarkably strong and shall have more wearing
capacity than the ordinary canvas or rubber belts.
It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawing, in which :—
Figure 1 is a plan of a sewn belt:

page_text: We form the main body of the belt of hemp, fax or other strong fibre. The
warps are composed of two or more strands or yarns twisted by either hand or
machinery into a strong cord, the tension being kept very great so that all stretch
is taken out of the cord. The cords are then woven into a flat, or, in some
instances, into a round or other shaped rope, the warps running the length of the
rope. The woven band is then covered on its faced side and round the edges or
partly on the back with leather, canvas, gutta-percha, rubber,. rubber substitute,
or like material. These are preferably attached by the following composition―
- C
Shellac
Spirits of wine
Concentrated size
Sugar syrup
1 oz.
1 gill
4 lbs.
- 4 lbs.
and the whole firmly compressed and dried, or they can be sewn together, and the
sewing can take the place of the cement, as in Figures 1 and 2, but we prefer the
cemented belt, as set forth in Figures 3 and 4. The leather or canvas face is the driving
surface. The edges are well protected by the covering being laid over them and
held by the cement as shown. In order to bind up the ends of the belt, the warped
threads are left without weft near the end, and the belt is spliced therewith. By
this means the ordinary laces and belt fasteners are done away with. This is
shown in Figure 4. It is obvious, however, that any ordinary mode of jointing can
be used, such as lacing, stitching, rivetting, jointing links or the like. If splicing
be employed, the covering strips are cut till they just meet or slightly overlap, and
are either cemented down or sewn or rivetted to cover the splice.
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:―
1. The improvement in belts for driving, elevating, winding or the like, which
consists in forming them of flat or other rope having the longitudinal fibres as
straight as possible and bound over on the driving face and edges or driving face
only with leather, canvas, rubber or other suitable tough, durable material.
2. The improvement in belts, which consists in the combination of a hemp, flax
or other strong rope, and leather, canvas or other tough, durable material cemented
to its wearing surface and covering the same, substantially as described.
3. In ropes substantially as described in Claims 1 and 2, the arrangement of
splice and the solution, each substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of January 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.
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