Improved Driving Belting Made from Woven Material.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1891-Accepted, 5th Dec. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Driving Belting Made from Woven Material.
I FRANK REDDAWAY of Cheltenham Street Pendleton in the County of
Lancaster Manufacturer of Machine Belting do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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My said invention relates to the descriptions of driving belting which are made
from woven fabric folded into two or more layers of the required width and
secured together by stitching. Hitherto such belting has been made from canvas
or duck woven from flax or hemp or cotton or combinations of these vegetable
fibres. In practice I have found that belting composed of this material stretches
greatly when in use and is extremely susceptible to the influences of atmospheric
changes. According to my invention I manufacture belting from woven material
composed of fibres which are not so much subject to the aforesaid disadvantages.
I weave fabrics from wool fibres or from other animal fibres or hair for example
from camel hair or fibres known in the market as camel hair. The fabrics might
be composed entirely of such animal fibres or hair or wool or they might be woven
from mixtures of wool or hair and vegetable fibres such as cotton flax hemp or the
like the wool or hair fibres preferably composing or partly composing the warp
of the fabric so as to offer the due resistance to stretching. Fabrics or materials
composed of such fibres or admixtures of fibres are folded into layers and
stitched as before. The folded and stitched belting manufactured under the
improved conditions hereinbefore set forth may be treated with preservative
dressing such as oil paint or other suitable liquid compound and finished under the
methods at present in use with regard to woven belting.
Dated this 5th day of February 1891.
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St James' Square, Manchester, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Driving Belting Made from Woven Material.
I FRANK REDDAWAY of Cheltenham Street, Pendleton, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer of Machine Belting, 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 that is to say :-
My said invention relates to the descriptions of driving belting which are made
from woven fabric folded into two or more layers of the required width and
secured together by stitching. Hitherto such belting has been made from canvas
or duck, woven from flax or hemp or cotton or combinations of these vegetable
fibres. In practice I have found that belting composed of this material stretches
greatly when in use and is extremely susceptible to the influence of atmospheric
changes. According to my invention I manufacture belting from woven material
composed of fibres which are not so much subject to the aforesaid disadvantages.
I weave fabrics from wool fibres or from other animal fibres or hair, for example
from camel hair or fibres known in the market as camel hair.
The fabrics might be composed entirely of such animal fibres or hair or wool or
they might be woven from mixtures of wool or hair and vegetable fibres such as
cotton flax hemp or the like the wool or hair fibres preferably composing or partly
composing the warp of the fabric so as to offer the due resistance to stretching.
Fabrics or materials composed of such fibres or admixtures of fibres are folded into
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page_text: layers and stitched as before. The folded and stitched belting manufactured under the
improved conditions hereinbefore set forth may be treated with preservative
dressing such as oil, paint, or other suitable liquid compound and finished under
the methods at present in use with regard to woven belting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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A driving belt or driving belting consisting of two or more folds or thicknesses
of fabric composed wholly or partly of animal fibre such as hair, wool, camel
hair, or so called camel hair ihe folds or thicknesses being stitched or secured
together so as to form a homogeneous belt substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 29th day of October 1891.
DUTTON & FULTON,
. 1, St. James' Square, Manchester, Agents.