Improvements in the Manufacture of Driving Belts.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application. 1st Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 31st Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Oct., 1888
Improvements in the Manufacture of Driving Belts.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Newchurch, Lancashire, manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvements relate to belts for driving purposes, and have for object the
rendering of such belts durable and pliable when in use, and also making the same
with a safer edge, by introducing in their manufacture a combination of materials of
the nature and in manner to be hereinafter described.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I employ sheets, or lengths, or
it may be strips, of buffalo or other hide, gutta percha, or such like substance in
combination with woven hose, or single or double fabric composed of cotton, jute,
hair, or similar material.
The buffalo or other hide, or gutta percha, or other similar substance, is by
preference placed between two layers of woven fabric, which may be folded or woven
in the hose form, and may be of the same or combined or different materials, so as
to form the belt, and are stitched firmly together by suitable means, the whole thus
forming a belt of a strong and pliable nature.
For the purpose of giving to the belts so formed a safe or smooth edge, I, by
preference, make the hide, gutta percha, or similar substance, when used in sheets, of
a greater width than that of the woven fabric, thus allowing the former to project a
trifle beyond the edge of the latter.
By preference, I use the hide, gutta percha, or such like substance in folded sheets,
the folded ends forming the safe edge refered to; but other variations may be made,
such as employing strips of the hide or gutta percha or similar substance of single,
double, or more thicknesses, and the folded strips may be stitched in at intervals
across the belt, or may be stitched in the sides of the belt only; and the woven fabric
may be all on one face thereof, and may be composed wholly of one material, or one
hose or folded piece may be of one material and the other of another, or they may be
of combined materials, without departing from the peculiar character of the invention;
Price 6d 1

page_text: which mainly consists in the forming of belting for driving purposes, by combining
layers of buffalo or other hide or gutta percha or similar material with layers of
folled or
woven hose fabrics; and also in allowing the hide, or other substance,
portion to project beyond that of. the fabric portion for the purpose of producing a
safe edge.
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WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Driving Belts.
1, JOHN TAYLOR, of Newchurch Lancashire, Manufacturer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to he
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The improvements relate to belts for driving purposes, and have for object the
rendering of such belts durable and pliable, and of great strength for their weight,
when in use; and also making the same with a safe edge, by introducing into their
manufacture a combination of materials of the nature and in manner to be herein
described.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I employ sheets, or lengths, or
it may be strips of a substance known as "buffalo-hide," (or as a modification gutta-
percha), such not being ordinary leather, with woven fabric in combination, whether
such fabric be woven in single, double, hose, or multiform formation, or composed of
cotton, jute, hair, or similar material, or any combination thereof.
The buffalo hide is placed between two or more layers of woven fabric, which may
be folded or woven in hose form, so as to form the belt by stitching the parts together
by means of yarn or thread, or by copper or other wire, or by rivetting, as is well
understood.
To give the belts so formed a safe edge, I make the buffalo-hide to extend to a
greater width than that of the woven fabric, thus allowing the former to project
somewhat beyond the edges of the latter.
:
I use the buffalo hide either in folded sheets or widths or singly of the requisite
thickness but of one thickness thereabouts across the width, and I do not employ
any thicker portion in the projecting edges, as by the use of buffalo hide such
thickened edges are unnecessary.

page_text: In lieu of one piece of buffalo-hide extending across the width of the belt, I
sometimes employ two or more strips side by side, and other variations in detail may
be made without departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that I am
aware that prior to my hereinbefore described invention belting for driving purposes
has been made of woven material combined with leather having the edges of such
belting protected by leather, and also that it has been proposed to manufacture belting
composed of woven material and leather in which the inserted leather has extended
beyond each edge of the woven belting for the protection of such belting, no claim is
therefore made to any such belting, but what I claim is :-
Belts or belting for driving purposes formed by combining a layer or layers of
buffalo hide (not being ordinary leather) with layers of folded or woven fabric, the
buffalo hide portion named projecting beyond the edges of the fabric portion, for the
purpose and in manner substantially as herein described.
Dal L: 2011 JS 1000
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.