Fastening the Ends of Driving Bands or Belts.
Year: 1885

page_text: Fastening the Ends of Driving Bands or Belts.
I THOMAS HOBSON SMETHURST of Bath Street, Oldham in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to the method of and means for connecting or fastening
the ends of driving bands or belts.
3.
These Improvements consist in joining or connecting the ends of the band or
belt in such a method and by such means as will produce a joint equivalent to a
butt joint as hereinafter indicated.
The two ends of the belt may be laid with their inner faces together. Upon one
or both of the outer surfaces and at the right angles with the edges, of the belt
I then apply a short bar or narrow plate of metal, hard wood or other suitable
material. These bars or plates should not project beyond the edges of the belt and
I prefer to form upon their surfaces which come in contact with the band or belt a
number of teeth or pointed projections which will enter the substance of the band
or belt and tend to further secure the fastening. Through the plate or plates or
bars and through the two ends of the belt, corresponding holes are formed so that
rivets pins screws or their equivalent being passed through the holes and secured
in the usual manner, the ends of the belt will be firmly secured together and the
band or belt upon being opened out will be found to have its ends firmly connected
by a joint which will run smoothly over a small pulley.
Instead of passing rivets pins or screws through holes in the two plates or bars
I may in some cases, cast forge or otherwise produce form or secure to one of the
bars or plates two or more pins or screws and in the other plate corresponding
holes. The pins or screws upon the one bar or plate are then passed through holes
in the ends of the belt and through the holes in the other bar or plate when the
ends of the pins or screws may be secured by rivetting by nuts or by other
suitable means the joint being thus securely made as previously described.
Dated this 19th day of December AD 1885.
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page_text: Improvements in the Method of and Means for Connecting or
Fastening the Ends of Driving Bands or Belts.
I, THOMAS HOBSON SMETHURST of Bath Street Oldham in the County of
Lancaster Cotton Spinner, 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 the method of and means for connecting or fastening
the ends of driving bands or belts and these Improvements consist in joining or
connecting the ends of the band or belt in such a manner and by such means as
will produce a joint equivalent when in use to a butt joint.
And in order that this my said Invention may be more readily understood and
carried into practical effect I have hereunto appended a sheet of Drawings to which
reference is hereinafter made. In each of the various Figures similar parts or
details are denoted by similar letters.
Fig. 1 represents in plan, Fig. 2 in side view, Fig. 3 in end view and Fig. 4 in
section the ends of a belt connected or fastened together according to this
Invention.
Fig. 5. shows in longitudinal section the fastener or connecting device represented
in Figs. 1 to 4; Fig. 5. shows a back view and Fig. 6 a front view of the fastener
bars.
A A are the ends of the belt; B B are two similar bars having a length about
equal to or a little less than the width of the belt; CC are conical or pointed teeth
or projections formed upon the contact or belt face of the bars; D D are holes for
the passage of the screw bolts E E
In connecting or fastening the two ends of a belt, the ends are laid with their
inner surfaces together and holes are produced therein corresponding to the
holes D D in the bars and at a convenient and safe distance from the ends of the
belt. The bars are then placed in position and the connection is secured by
passing pins rivets or screw bolts through the bars and the two thicknesses of belt
and securing the said pins rivets or bolts in the usual manner.
The ends of the belt will thus be firmly secured together and the belt upon being
opened out will be found to have its ends firmly connected by a joint which as
shown in Fig. 8, will run smoothly over a small pulley. To prevent the bar
cutting the belt the inner lower edge should be rounded as represented in Figs. 3
and 4.
Instead of employing rivets pins or screw-bolts which pass through holes in each
of the spiked plates or bars B B, I may in some cases, cast forge or otherwise
produce or form upon or secure to one of the bars two or more pins screws or the like
and in the other bar, corresponding holes. The pins screws or the like upon one
bar are passed through holes in the ends of belt and through the holes in the other
bar when the fastening or connection may be completed by rivetting by nuts or by
other suitable means, the joint being thus made as previously described in relation
to the Figures 1 to 4. A joint thus made is precisely equivalent to that shown on
the drawings.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
(1) The method of connecting the ends of driving bands or belts substantially as
hereinbefore described.
(2) As a fastener or device for connecting the ends of driving bands or belts;
the combination of two bars or plates having spikes or projections thereon capable
of penetrating the substance of the band or belt, with suitable screw bolts pins
rivets or the like, substantially as herein before described and as illustrated on the
accompanying sheet of Drawings.
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(3) As a fastener or device for connecting the ends of driving bands or belts;
the combination of a spiked bar or plåte having screw-bolts pins rivets or the like
formed or secured thereon, with a second spiked plate having holes formed therein
for the passage of the bolts pins or rivets on the first bar or plate; substantially as
herein before described.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.