IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY BELTING
Year: 1884

page_text: I ISAAC BLUE HARRIS of Castle Mills Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, in the
County of Mid-Lothian, Superintendent of India Rubber Works do hereby declare
the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY BELTING" to be
as follows:-
1
These improvements relate to machinery belting or driving bands or straps;
they are according to this Invention provided with a partial metallic or mailed,
surface whereby their adhesion to the driving pulleys is very much increased, their
liability to slip reduced, and their durability prolonged.
The mailed or partial metallic covering simply consists in studding the face or
surface intended to come in contact with the pulleys, with a uniformly placed
series of Hat headed or slightly round headed nails of copper or other suitable
metal, which may be clenched or rivetted on the back or opposite surface of the
belting.
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The belting susceptible' of being so clad or mailed may be made of any flexible
material suitable for such a purpose, such as ordinary india rubber belting, gutta
percha belting, leather belting and belting formed of any woven or textile material,
either woven in the form of a belt, or made up of strips of cloth cut from webs
thereof and sewn or cemented together to form belting.
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page_text: I ISAAC BLUE HARRIS of Castle Mills Fountainbridge, Edinburgh in the
County of Mid-Lothian, Superintendent of India Rubber Works, do hereby
declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY BELTING
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
These improvements relate to machinery belting or driving bands or straps, they
are according to this Invention provided with a partial metallic or mailed surface
whereby their adhesion to the driving pulleys is very much increased, their liability
to slip reduced, and their durability prolonged.
The mailed or partial metallic covering simply consists in studding the face or
surface intended to come in contact with the pulleys, with a uniformly placed
series of flat headed or slightly round headed nails of copper or other suitable
metal, which may be clenched or rivetted on the back or opposite surface of the
belting.
The belting susceptible of being so clad or mailed may be made of any flexible
material suitable for such a purpose, such as ordinary india rubber belting, gutta
percha belting, leather belting and belting formed of any woven or textile material,
either woven in the form of a belt, or made up of strips of cloth cut from webs
thereof and sewn or cemented together to form belting.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.

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 :-
The mailing or partial metallic covering of driving belts, bands or straps by
inserting therein metal nails or studs, in such manner as to protect the whole of the
inner surface of the belt, band or strap from wear by frictional contact with the
face of the driving pulley.