IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS OR BANDS FOR DRIVING MACHINERY AND LIKE PURPOSES."
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Maurice Gandy, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE
OF BELTS OR BANDS FOR DRIVING MACHINERY AND LIKE PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Maurice Gandy at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st July 1878.
MAURICE GANDY, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster.
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"
IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS OR BANDS FOR DRIVING
MACHINERY AND LIKE PURPOSES."
My Invention relates to the manufacture of belts or bands for driving machinery
and other like purposes, such as elevators for grain or other material, or endless
carrying bands, and consists in manufacturing such belts or bands of a combination
of manilla fibre and cotton fibre, or rhea fibre and cotton fibre, or coir, or cocoa nut
fibre and cotton fibre. These combined fibres are either woven together, so as to
form a belt, or are woven into separate cloths or fabrics, and then put together by
folding and sewing or stitching.
By combining cotton fibre with the manilla fibre, or rhea fibre, or cocoa nut fibre,
and constructing a belt by weaving, or by folding and stitching, I obtain a belt or
band with the cotton fibre on the inside or pulley side, and obtain increased frictional
surface and grip, and at the same time produce a smooth working belt.
The fibres of manilla, rhea, or cocoa nut are not in themselves suitable for the
manufacture of belts or bands, as they are of too coarse a nature, but by the mixture
of such fibres with cotton I avail myself of the great strength of the manilla, rhea,
or cocoa nut fibre, and a smooth surface and face produced by the cotton fibre.

page_text: My Invention may be modified by mixing manilla and rhea fibre, or mixing the
manilla, rhea, and cotton fibre, either by weaving the combined fibres into the cloth
or material of which the belt or band is manufactured, or by mixing yarns of the
different fibres in the weaving of the cloth, or by using cloths woven of the different
fibres in combination to form a belt or band.
After or during the manufacture the belts or bands may be saturated with a
compound of oil, wax, rosin, tallow, or other suitable substance or material, to
prevent the belts or bands being affected by atmospheric changes, or to give more
grip to the pulleys or drums over which the belts or bands pass.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Maurice Gandy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th January
1879.
MAURICE GANDY, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF BELTS OR BANDS FOR DRIVING
MACHINERY AND LIKE PURPOSES."
My Invention relates to the manufacture of belts or bands for driving machinery
and other like purposes, such as elevators for grain, or other material, or endless
carrying bands, and consists in manufacturing such belts or bands of a combination
of manilla fibre and cotton fibre, or rhea fibre and cotton fibre, or coir, or cocoa nut
fibre and cotton fibre. These combined fibres are either woven together, so as to
form a belt, or are woven into separate cloths or fabrics, and then put together by
folding and sewing, or stitching.
By combining cotton fibre with the manilla fibre, or rhea fibre, or cocoa nut fibre,
and constructing a belt by weaving, or by folding and stitching, I obtain a belt or
band with the cotton fibre on the inside or pulley side, and obtain increased
frictional surface and grip, and at the same time produce a smooth working belt.
The fibres of inanilla, rhea, or cocoa nut are not in themselves suitable for the
manufacture of belts or bands, as they are of too coarse a nature, but by the
mixture of such fibres with cotton I avail myself of the great strength of the
manilla, rhea, or cocoa nut fibre, and the smooth surface and face produced by the
cotton fibre.
My Invention may be modified by mixing manilla and rhea fibre, or mixing the
manilla, rhea, and cotton fibre, either by weaving the combined fibres into the cloth
or material of which the belt or band is manufactured, or by mixing yarns of the
different fibres in the weaving of the cloth, or by using cloths woven of the different
fibres in combination, to form a belt or band.
•After or during the manufacture the belts or bands may be saturated with a
compound of oil, wax, rosin, tallow, or other suitable substance or material, to
prevent the belts or bands being affected by atmospheric changes, or to give more
grip to the pulleys or drums over which the belts or bands pass.
What I claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the manufacture of belts or bands for driving machinery and like
purposes, by combining cotton fibre with manilla fibre, rhea fibre, or cocoa nut fibre,
the cotton fibre with one or more or all of the other fibres woven together into a
belt or band of the required width and thickness, or the cotton fibre with one or
more or all of the other fibres woven together in the form of cloths, which are
folded up of the required width and thickness, and stitched together into a belt or
band; or the cotton, inanilla, rhea, or cocoa nut fibres woven into separate cloths, and
the cotton fibre cloth with one or more or all of the other fibre cloths laid together
and stitched into a belt or band of the required width and thickness, the belts or
bands being finished by oil or otherwise, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Maurice Gandy, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
MAURICE (LS) GANDY.