CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF ATTACHING AND SECURING TOGETHER THE ENDS OF STRAPPING EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Barnsley, of Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Tanner, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
METHOD OF ATTACHING AND SECURING TOGETHER THE ENDS OF STRAPPING
EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY."
Sealed the 19th June 1866, and.dated the 21st December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Barnsley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
December 1865.
I, WILLIAM BARNSLEY, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Tanner, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE METHOD OF ATTACHING AND SECURING. TOGETHER THE ENDS OF STRAPPING
EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates more particularly to the method of attaching and
securing together the ends of straps or belts employed for driving machinery,
and is designed for the purpose of effecting a more level surface at the joint
and a more durable connection than has hitherto been obtained. The improve-
ments consist in forming or 'creating indentations or depressions in the ends
of the straps or bands of sufficient depth to receive the thickness of the
cord or strip which unites the ends, so that the joint when..nade.presents an

page_text: even surface and level with the other part of the belt or band. These
indentations or depressions may be formed in the ends of the bands, which
are to be united by means of a pair of embossing dies, between which the
ends of the strap or straps are to be placed, and which dies when brought
together form the number of indentations required, and which may be formed
in any shape desired by the use of suitably formed dies.
The chief feature of the Invention being the formation of indentations in
the ends of the bands or straps at their junction to receive and make space
for the thickness of the attaching cord or material, instead of allowing such
cord to project above the surface of the strap as hitherto.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Barnsley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
'20th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BARNSLEY, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Tanner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself; Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Barnsley, Her special license that I, the said William
Barnsley, my executors, administrators, and assigns; or such others as I, the
said William Barnsley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
aud Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF ATTACHING AND SECURING TOGETHER
THE ENDS OF STRAPPING EMPLOYED IN MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Barnsley, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Barnsley, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):
My Invention, relates- more particularly to the method of attaching and
securing together the ends of -straps or belts employed for driving machinery,
and is designed for the purpose of effecting a more level surface at the joint,
and a more durable connection than, has hitherto been obtained.
The improvements consist in forming or creating undulations or depressions
in. the ends of the straps or bands of sufficient depth to receive the thickness
of the cord or strip which unites the ends, so that the joint when made
presents an even surface and level with the other part of the belt or band..
These indentations or depressions may be formed in the ends of the bands,
which are to be united by means of a pair of embossing dies, between which
the ends of the strap or straps-are, to be placed, and which dies when brought
together form the number of indentations required, and which may be formed
in any shape desired by the use of suitably formed dies.
The chief feature of the Invention being the formation of indentations in
the ends of the bands or straps at their junction to receive and make space
for the thickness of the attaching cord or material, instead of allowing such
cord to project above the surface of the strap as hitherto.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made-upon a scale of
about three inches to the foot, and having similar letters of reference marked
upon corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of an ordinary pressing frame containing
the improved dies, between which the ends of the strap or belt to be operated
upon are placed to receive the indentations necessary to contain the thickness
of the attaching cord or other material. Fig. 2 represents a plan view of one
of the dies, and Fig. 8 represents a pair of pressure rollers baving projections
or elevations formed upon their peripheries corresponding to the indentions
required to be made in the strapping to receive the stitching or attaching
material, these rollers are employed to form such indentations in doubling
strapping where the stitching is continuous or extending the whole length of
the belt.
In Figs. 1 and 2, a, a, are the top and bottom pressure plates mounted in
an ordinary press, to these plates the dies b, b, are secured, and are arranged
so as to form alternate indentations upon the surfaces of the belt to be attached.
The ends of the belt to be indented are placed between these dies, so that when
such dies are forcibly brought together they come into contact with the strap
and form upon the same, by compression, the recess or indentations to receive

page_text: the stitching material. The same effect is produced upon double strapping
where the stitching is continuous throughout the entire length of the belt, by
passing such belt between the revolving pressure rollers seen in Fig. 3.
When the strapping is placed between these rollers it is passed between them
as they revolve, whereby it receives a continuous series of depressions suitable.
to contain the stitching or binding material.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly.
understood that I claim the application and use of depressions or indentations
in the surface of strapping to allow for and to receive the stitching material
employed to unite the thicknesses of strapping as herein-before described, set
forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
.In witness whereof, I, the said William Barnsley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witnessed by,
JOHN L. DAVIES, C. E.,
Office for Patents,
4, St. Ann's Sq.,
Manchester.
WILLIAM BARNSLEY. (L.B.)
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