IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR DRIVING BANDS, STRAPS, BELTS, HARNESS, OR OTHER BUCH LIKE PURPOSES."
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Frederick Cashin, Civil Engineer, of Shef-
field, in the County of York, and Joseph Felix Allender, Ironworks
Manager, of Park Gate, near Sheffield, aforesaid, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR DRIVING BANDS, STRAPS, BELTS, HARNESS,
OR OTHER BUCH LIKE PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Frederick Cashin
and Joseph Felix Allender at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st October 1865.
We, THOMAS FREDERICK CASHIN, Civil Engineer, of Sheffield, in the
County of York, and JOSEPH FELIX ALLENDER, Ironworks Manager, of
Park Gate, near Sheffield, aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR DRIVING BANDS, STRAPS, BELTS,
HARNESS, OR OTHER BUCH LIKE PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
At present the ends of driving bands or straps for machinery are sewn or
rivetted together, or are connected by nuts and screws or other unadjustable
appliances.
We propose to connect them by means of a fastener attached to one end.

page_text: at pleasure. This fastener consists of a frame formed by a bottom plate
with lugs or ears at right angles thereto, and a roller with journals smaller
in size let into the lugs. The journals being smaller than the rolls, and flush
at one portion of the circumference, cause it to act as an eccentric; and when
the bottom plate of the frame is attached to one end of the strap the roller
is turned with the short radius towards the plate, the other or unattached end
of the strap is then passed beneath it and the roller turned so that the throw
or long radius presses upon and secures it. For some purposes a roll or
bar to slide in inclined slots in the lugs may be substituted for the eccentric
roller. Fasteners of either construction may be used for harness, braces, and
such like purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Frederick Cashin and Joseph Felix Allender in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th April 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
FREDERICK CASHIN, Civil Engineer, of Sheffield, in the County of York, and
JOSEPH FELIX ALLENDER, Ironworks Manager, of Park Gate, near Sheffield,
aforesaid, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of October, 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 us,
the said Thomas Frederick Cashin and Joseph Felix Allender, Her special
licence that we, the said Thomas Frederick Cashin and Joseph Felix Allender,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas
Frederick Cashin and Joseph Felix Allender, our 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 and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR DRIVING BANDS, STRAPS,
BELTS, HARNESS, OR OTHER SUCH LIKE PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Thomas Frederick Cashin and Joseph Felix
Allender, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent

page_text: Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Frederick Cashin, on behalf of
myself and the said Joseph Felix Allender, do hereby declare the nature of
our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon, that is to say:
At present the ends of driving bands or straps for machinery are sewn or
rivetted together, or are connected by nuts and screws or other unadjustable
appliances. We propose to connect them by means of a fastener attached to one
end of the band or strap which admits of the other end being released or.
secured at pleasure. This fastener consists of a frame formed by a bottom
plate with lugs or ears at right angles thereto, and a roller with journals
smaller in size let into the lugs. The journals being smaller than the roller,
and flush at one portion of the circumference, cause it to act as an eccentric,
and when the bottom plate of the frame is attached to one end of the strap
the roller is turned with the short radius towards the plate, the other or
unattached end of the strap is then passed beneath it and the roller turned so
that the throw or long radius presses upón and secures it. For some purposes
a roll or bar to slide in inclined slots in the lugs may be substituted for the
eccentric roller. Fasteners of either construction may be used for harness,
braces, and such like purposes.
. In order that our Invention may be fully understood, I now proceed more
particularly to describe the way in which the same is or may be carried into
effect, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings and to the
letters and figures thereon, similar parts being indicated by similar letters of
reference.
Fig. 1 shews a top view of a fastener for driving bands, straps, or belts for
machinery; Fig. 2 is an elevation thereof, showing the" throw or longest
radius of the roller turned towards the plate of the frame; Fig. 3 shows
the throw or longest radius turned from the plate; Fig. 4''is an end elevation
of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 an end elevation of Fig. 3, the circular dotted line
both in Fig. 4 and 5 showing the eccentric connection between the roll and
journals and the consequent eccentric action resulting therefrom; Fig. 6 is a
plan showing the ends of the machine bands secured by the fasteners; and
Fig. 7a longitudinal section through Fig. 6; Fig. 8 shows a front view of a
buckle for ladies' waist belts, and Fig. 9 a cross section thereof; Fig. 10
shows a front view of a buckle for braces, and Fig. 11 a cross section of the

page_text: samé; Fig. 12 shows a front view of
buckle, in which a moveable bar
works in a slot inclined in the direction in which the strain is applied, and
Fig. 13 is a cross section thereof.
The plate a, and lugs b, b, are formed in one piece. the upper surface of
the plate a being serrated or indented; the roller c is also serrated on the
portion of the surface which acts upon the band or belt d: when the journals
è are turned on the roll the plate a is bent, the journals inserted into the
eyes, and the plate again straightened. The fastener is then secured to one
end of the belt f, with a counter plate g on the under side to prevent the
rivets being drawn through the leather or other material of which the belt
may be composed; the end of the belt d is then passed between the plate and
the roller and fastened by turning the roller in the direction of the arrow,
Fig. 7. When it is required to release or readjust the belt, the roller is
turned in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 6.
The buckles for ladies' belts and for braces shown by Fig. 8 to 11 act in
the same manner, by attaching the buckle to one end of the belt or brace, and
turning the throw or longest radius of the roller in the direction in which the
strain upon the part to be secured acts.
For ladies' belts the rollers may be flush with or below the surface of the
frame h. When the buckle shown by. Figs. 12 and 13 is fixed with the slots
inclined towards the end to be secured, the bar i is acted upon by friction and
the strain causes it to bite like a wedge.
Having described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, we declare that what we claim as our Invention to
be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
arrangement and construction of fasteners for connecting bands, belts, and
other such like purposes, substantially in the manner herein-before set forth
and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Frederick Cashin, on behalf
of myself and the said Joseph Felix Allender, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
HENRY TOWNSEND.
T. F. CASHIN. (L.S.)