Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Cartridge and like Belts.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 13th May, 1897-Accepted, 26th June. "97
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Cartridge and
like Belts.
I, PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN, of the Firm of Martin and Martins, of
Granville Street in the City of Birmingham Manufacturer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to cartridge belts, and has for one of its objects, a new
construction of belt, and for another object, the production of the same without
sewing, and consists in making such belts from a number of strips or lengths of
material united together principally by lacing.
In making up a cartridge belt in accordance with my invention, I take a long
strip of leather or other material which constitutes the band of the belt and form
rear the two opposite edges of the same, sets of equi-distant piercings or holes,
corresponding in distance apart to the breadth of one of the series of pockets or
sheathe for receiving the cartridge to be carried by the belt. The whole of the
said pockets or sheaths of the belt are made from a continuous strip of leather or
other suitable material, with the intermediate spaces between the said sheaths
pierced with pairs of cross slits corresponding in position to the equi-distant
piercings near the edges of the band.
This said continuous strip of leather is made gussetted or corrugated so as to
form the pockets, with the pairs of slits coming in the declivities between the
pockets.
On now threading longitudinal lacing straps from the back of the belt or body
strip firet through the holes or piercings near the edges and then through the loops
formed by the slittings in the strip forming the pockets, the said body and pocket
strips are united together without sewing.
The corrugated figure of the front strip united at its declivities to the back band
thus forms a series of open-ended barrel-shaped pockets, which are closed at their
mouths by cover flaps made as a turned forward extension of the top edge of the
bard and made separately and attached by any means. The said cover flaps are
secured in their closed positions by button holed tabs taking over studs on the flaps,
which tabs are connected to the belt by necking them near their lower ends and
passing the lacing straps around the necked parts.
The ends of the lacing straps and component strips may be secured together and
to the buckling tabs or attachment ends of the belt by rivetting or otherwise, or
the said tabs or attachment ends may be made continuous with the body band.
lustead of the lacing strips being directed longitudinally they may be taken
laterally to and fro across the width of the band.
Dated this 12th day of August 1896.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Cartridge and
like Belts.
I, PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN of the Firm of Martin and Martins, of
Granville Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 relates to cartridge belts, and has for one of its objects, a new
construction of belt, and for another object the production of the same without
sewing, and consists in making such belts from strips or lengths of material united
together principally by lacing.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a front elevation of a cartridge
belt made according to my invention.
Figure 2 representa, also in front elevation, one end of the said belt, but
shown upon an enlarged scale in order to better exemplify the construction of the
same.
Figure 3 is a like view as Figure 2, but with the cover-flaps unfastened and
turned back, and with end portions of the strip from which the pockets are formed
and the continuous lacing straps broken away.
Figure 4 is a vertical section of Figure 2 upon the dotted line, showing how
the ends of the band, pocket strip, lacings and buckling tabs are secured together
by rivetting.
Figure 5 is a back elevation of Figure 3, with a part of the cover flaps broken
away.
Figure 6 shows the band of the belt separately, i.e. before the pocket strip is
laced thereto.
Figure 7 shows the said body band, with parts of the pocket strip broken away,
and before the lacing straps are passed through the circular piercings in the band
and the coincident slits in the parts of the pocket strip intervening between the
parts which form the pockets.
Figure 8 is a longitudinal section upon the dotted line ', of Figure 7, before the
introduction of the lacings, and
Figure 9 is a longitudinal section of the finished belt upon the dotted line ³,
Figure 2.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
In making up a cartridge belt a, in accordance with my invention, I take a long
strip of leather or other material a', which constitutes the band of the belt and form
Dear the one edge a', of the same, and near the edge a, of the said band at its
junction with the cover flaps a', sets of equi-distant piercings or holes a, a, longi-
tudinally separated from one another to an extent equal to the breadth of one of
the series of pockets or sheaths b', for receiving the cartridge to be carried by the
belt. The whole of the said pockets or sheaths b, of the belt are made from
a continuous strip of leather or other suitable material b, with the intermediate
spaces &, coming between the parts which form the said sheaths pierced with pairs
of cross or vertical slits coming over or coincident with the equi-distant
piercings a, a, near the edges of the band.
This said continuous strip of leather b, is made gussetted or corrugated so as to
form the pockets 6, with the intermediate parts 63 having the pairs of slits b³ at
top and bottom coming flat upon the surface of the band a aud so forming
declivities between the pockets.
On now threading longitudinal lacing straps c, from the back of the belt or body

page_text: strip a', first through the holes or piercings a, a, in the same, and then through-
the loops b, formed by the slittings 6 in the strip 6 forming the pockets 6', the
said body and pocket strips a', 6, are united together without sewing.
By thus giving a corrugated figure to the front strip and uniting it at its
declivities to the back band the series of open-ended pockets are formed, which,
pockets are preferably closed at their mouths by the cover flaps a, made as a
turned forward integral extension of the top edge a³, of the hand a¹, or formed
separately and attached to the said top edge by any suitable means. The said
cover flaps a, are secured in their closed positions by button holed tabs a', taking
over studs a, on the flaps, which tabs are connected to the belt by necking them
at a, near their lower ends, and passing the lacing straps c, around or over the said
necked parts a.
The ends c' of the lacing straps and the ends a, b, of the band a' and strip b.
may be secured together and to the buckling tabs or attachment ends d, of the belt
by rivettings e, or otherwise, or the said tabs or attachment ends may be made
continuous with the body band.
Instead of the lacing strips being directed longitudinally they may be taken
laterally to and fro across the width of the band.
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 :-
Firet. In cartridge belts, connecting together the component lengths of material
employed in making up such belts by lacings or lacing straps threaded through
piercings, slits, or their equivalents in the respective component lengths, substantially
as described and set forth.
Secondly. In cartridge belts, connecting together the component lengths of
material employed in making up such belts, and securing the fastening tabs of the
cover flaps thereto, by lacings or lacing straps, threaded through piercings, slits.
or their equivalents in the respective component lengths, and over or around
necked ends or other parts of the said tabs, substantially as described and set
forth.
Thirdly. The improvements in and in the manufacture of cartridge belts,.
substantially as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 12th day of May 1897.
PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Ageut for Applicant..