Improvements in the Manufacture of Driving Belts.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1896-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Driving Belts.
We, WHITWORTH MILLS, and ASA MILLS, of Mills Brothers Limited, Shaw
Road, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Tanners and Driving Belt Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of driving belts and
our improvements consist essentially in forming each belt of two or more bands one
or more of such bands being put under tension before and maintained under tension
during the process of uniting them into a single belt.
In carrying our improvements into effect we take say three bands one of leather
for the outside, another of leather for the inside, and a third of woven material for
the intermediate band. We put the leather band for the inside under tension and
we then cement the three bands together and in addition sew rivet or otherwise
fasten them firmly together to form a single driving belt.
It is obvious that we may employ bands of any material and any number of
bands in any suitable combination and connect them together as described or in any
other suitable way.
In case we employed several bands we should preferably put the band forming
the inside of the belt under the greatest strain and gradually decrease the tension
on the remaining bands until the band forming the outside of the belt would be
under little or no tension.
Dated this 25th day of October 1895.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Driving belts.
We, WHITWORTH MILLS and ASA MILLS, of Mills Brothers Limited, Shaw
Road, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Tanners and Driving Belt Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
Our invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of driving belts and
our improvements consist essentially in forming each belt of two or more bands one
or more of such bands being put under tension before and maintained under tension
during the process of uniting them into a single belt.
In carrying our improvements into effect we take say three bands one of leather
for the outside, another of leather for the inside, and a third of woven material for
the intermediate band. We put the leather band for the inside under tension
and we then preferably cement the three bands together and in addition sew rivet
or otherwise fasten them firmly together to form a single driving belt.
In case we employed several bands we should preferably put the band forming
the inside of the belt under the greatest strain and gradually decrease the tension

page_text: on the remaining bands until the band forming the outside of the belt would be
under little or no tension.
On the accompanying sheet of drawings forming part of this specification we
show in Figure 1 a driving belt made according to our invention and applied to a
pulley and Fig. 2 is a separate view of the belt.
In the example illustrated the driving belt is made of an inside band a of
leather, an outside band 6 also of leather, and an intermediate band c of woven
material.
The three bands a, b, c, are all put under tension by means of any suitable
mechanical contrivance, the band a being subjected to the greatest strain, the
band c to less, and the band b to the least strain, and whilst under tension the three
bands, are united into a single driving belt by cementing, sewing and riveting
or otherwise suitably fastening them firmly together, so that when united and
placed on a pulley as shown in Fig. 1, the belt will naturally conform to the face
of the pulley and this without putting any undue strain or stress upon the outer
bands forming part of the belt.
It is obvious that we may employ bands of any material and any number of
bands in any suitable combination and connect them together as described or in any
other suitable way.
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 :-
The herein described improvements in the manufacture of driving belts consisting
essentially in forming each belt of two or more bands one or more of such bands
being placed under tension before and during the process of uniting them into a
single belt substantially as set forth.
Dated this 24th dow of Inle 1906
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.