Improvements in Fasteners for Driving and other Belts.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1888
Specification Accepted, 4th May, 1888
Improvements in Fasteners for Driving and other Belts.
1 HERBERT JOHN HADDAN of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents of
18 Buckingham Street Strand, W.C. London in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me
from abroad by Timothy Gingras of the city of Buffalo in the County of Erie and
State of New York one of the United States of America, Manufacturer, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My present invention has general reference to belt fasteners, and it consists,
essentially in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construc-
tion as hereinafter first fully set forth and described and then pointed out in the
claim.
In the accompanying drawings which serve to illustrate my said invention more
fully
Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of a belt provided with my improved fastener.
Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view slightly
modified. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the improved fastener. Fig. 5 is a side
and Fig. 6 an end view of the same. Fig. 7 is an end view of the fastener slightly
modified.
Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the
Figures.
The object of my present invention is the production of a simple, durable and
cheap fastener for, leather, rubber, raw hide, cotton and other belting. To obtain
this end I construct the belt A by either scarfing or butting the contiguous
ends B B together and then fastening the pieces in the joint by driving double
pointed staples C through the belting, a distance at least equal to the thickness
of the said belt. I then turn the points and drive them back into or through
the leather or other material as shown at C¹ C¹ Fig. 2. which so securely holds
the pieces together, a suitable number of said staples being used for a given width
of belting on one or the other, or on both or alternate sides of the belt, that the
jointed portion is as strong, if not stronger than the body of the belt. By pro-
ceeding in the manner described, I produce a belt which is cheaper than common
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page_text: belting, because none of the material of which the belt is composed is lost in the
joint, and better for the reason that the jointed portion is stronger, which actual tests
have demonstrated.
The staples used are illustrated in Figs. 4 to 7. They are of peculiar construc-
tion, by preference such construction being hereafter described, but they may, in
many cases, be ordinary blind staples, or fence wire staples, care being taken to
use such only that are long enough to at least clinch one in the belting.
My special fastener consists of a double pointed staple constructed, preferably, of
flat material, such as soft steel, iron, brass, copper &c. and of various lengths so as to
answer the
purpose. The points of this fastener are constructed so that the slant or
taper & Fig. 5 is entirely on the outside of the staple so that the inside lines of the
points are perfectly parallel, or nearly so. The slanting sides are not continued to
the extreme points but are further bevelled at b, forming a rather blunt point. The
sides of the points are not of uniform width either, but taper in opposite directions as
shown in Fig. 6 where E represents these tapering portions. The object of thus con-
structing the points of this fastening is to enable its being driven into a belt from one
side and to cause it to double clinch so that the points will re-penetrate the belt on the
same side but at a slightly different position from which they have entered such object
being accomplished by constructing the points with the triple bevels a b E as
specified.
In Fig. 2 I have shown two pieces of belting or similar article secured together by
a single clinch, while in Fig. 3 I have illustrated a single thickness jointed together
by a double clinch. To attain this latter fastening in any number of thicknesses of
belting it is simply necessary to use staples the points of which are long enough
because the tendency of the points is to roll up into a coil as shown in Fig. 3.
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. In combination, with the contiguous sections of a belt, the staples C having their
points passed into or through contiguous parts of said sections and then bent back
through the same on opposite sides of the body of such staple substantially as set
forth.
2. A belt fastening, consisting of a staple having its ends bevelled inwardly from the
outside but their inner faces left vertically and having the right edge of one, and the
left edge of the other end also bevelled the other edges of said ends being left vertical
in order that the points of the staple may be on opposite sides of its middle longi-
tudinal line substantially as set forth.
3. A staple having its ends bevelled on the outside and the right edge of one end
and the left edge of the other also and further provided with the additional slants
forming blunt points as set forth.
Dated thi. 0011 1
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