Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Woven Driving Belting.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Woven Driving Belting.
We, F. REDDAWAY & Co. LIMITED, of Cheltenham Street, Pendleton, Man-
chester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Woven Machine Belting and
Hose, and GAYLARD MACK, Weaving Manager, with the said firm, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
Our said invention relates to improvements in, and in the manufacture of
woven driving belting.
Such driving belting is woven in varying widths to suit requirements and is
cut into desired lengths and the ends connected by fasteners. It is found in
practice that various objections are inherent to this method.
For instance to cope with the demand for belting of the many different widths,
large stocks of such varying widths of belting must be kept in hand. Further the
strength of the belting is weakened at the point of connection, and this weakness
is difficult to overcome without destroying the flexibility of the belt.
These objections are fully met and overcome by our invention.
To carry our invention into effect we weave the belting in longitudinal strips
and build up the belt from such woven strips. The strips are woven with a
thinner protruding tongue or edge, the strips designed for the outer edges of
the belt are woven with one tongue only, the other edge of the strip being plain.
Strips intended for use centrally or to adjoin the side strips of the belting are
provided with projecting tongues on each edge.
In constructing a belt from such strips it will be obvious that any desired width
ordered may be readily built up from a suitable number of the strips. To effect
this the projecting tongues of adjacent strips are placed overlapping each other
and are then secured together by stitching which may be effected by a suitable
sewing machine. The combined thickness of the two projecting tongues thus
stitched together is arranged to be less than the thickness of the belt, thus forming
a shallow trough on each side of the strip which effectually prevents the wearing
or cutting of the securing stitches by frictional contact with the pullies.
Thus not only is it possible to readily construct belts of varying widths to order
from such strips but the connection of such a belt can be easily effected to break
joint. For instance suppose a belt of thirty feet in length be built up from three
strips, the ends of the strips where connected may be separated from each other a
distance of ten feet apart.
The strength of the belt is increased by thus breaking up the points of con-
nection, and the flexibility of the belt is not so much impaired as in the case with
methods at present in use. Moreover where metal fasteners are used the weight
of the fasteners is distributed over the length of the belt and any slipping of the

page_text: the pulley due to the pressure of a number of fasteners at one point is
Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Woven Driving Belting.
We, F. REDDAWAY & Co. LIMITED, of Cheltenham Street, Pendleton, Man-
chester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Woven Machine Belting and
Hose, and GAYLARD MACK, Weaving Manager, with the said firm, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment and accompanying drawings:-
Our said invention relates to improvements in, and in the manufacture of
woven driving belting.
Such driving belting is woven in varying widths to suit requirements and is
cut into desired lengths and the ends connected by fasteners. It is found in
practice that various objections are inherent to this method.
For instance to cope with the demand for belting of the many different widths,
large stocks of such varying widths of belting must be kept in hand. Further the
strength of the belting is weakened at the point of connection, and this weakness
is difficult to overcome without destroying the flexibility of the belt.
These objections are fully met and overcome by our invention, which is illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings.
To carry our invention into effect we weave the belting in longitudinal strips
and build up the belt from such woven strips. The strips are woven with a
thinner protruding tongue or edge, the strips designed for the outer edges of
the belt are woven with one tongue only, the other edge of the strip being plain.
Strips intended for use centrally or to adjoin the side strips of the belting are
provided with projecting tongues on each edge.
Fig. 1 of the drawings shows in cross section three of such strips a, a central
strip with tongues b on each side and two outside strips a formed with one tongue b
only.
In constructing a belt from such strips it will be obvious that any desired width
ordered may be readily built up from a suitable number of the strips. To effect
this the projecting tongues b of adjacent strips a are placed overlapping each
other as shown in Fig. 2 and are then secured together by stitching, shown in
dotted lines e in the plan view Fig. 3, which may be effected by a suitable sewing
machine. The combined thickness of the two projecting tongues 6 thus stitched
together is arranged to be less than the thickness of the belt thus forming a
shallow trough on each side of the strips (see Fig. 2) which effectually prevents the
wearing or cutting of the securing stitches by frictional contact with the pullies.
Although three such strips a are shown in the drawings it will be understood
that two or any convenient number may be employed according to the desired
width of belt.
Thus not only is it possible to readily construct belts of varying widths to order
from such strips but the connection of such a belt can be easily effected to break

page_text: joint. For instance suppose a belt of thirty feet in length be built up of three
strips, the ends of the strips where connected may be separated from each other a
distance of ten feet apart.
The strength of the belt is increased by thus breaking up the points of con-
nection, and the flexibility of the belt is not so much impaired as in the case with
methods at present in use.
Moreover where metal fasteners are used the weight
of the fasteners is distributed over the length of the belt and any slipping of the
belt on the pulley due to the pressure of a number of fasteners at one point is
also avoided.
our
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is:
1) Weaving driving belting in strips formed with a thinner projecting tongue
or tongues in the manner for the purposes and substantially as described and
shown.
2) The improved woven driving belting composed of a number of strips formed
with thinner projecting tongues by means of which they are secured together sub-
stantially as described and illustrated.