IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING STRAPS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Michael John Haines, of Stroud, in the County of
Gloucester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
DRIVING STRAPS."
Sealed the 29th May 1860, and dated the 14th February 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Michael John Haines at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th February 1860.
I, MICHAEL JOHN HAINES, of Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OP DRIVING STRAPS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
driving straps. For these purposes, the material (generally leather or hides)
is cut into narrow strips or fillets, and these are placed side by side till the
desired width of a driving strap is obtained; the width of the strips or fillets
being equal to the thickness of the intended driving strap, and the cut edges
of the leather or material come to the upper and under surfaces of the driving
strap. In arranging the strips side by side, care is taken that the ends of the
several strips or fillets come at a distance from each other, or that the strips or
fillets break joint, so that the strap may not be weaker in one part than in
another; the several strips or fillets thus laid side by side are fixed together
by rivets, screws, or pins passed through the several strips or fillets from edge

page_text: to edge of the driving strap; washers of metal may be used on either edge of
the driving strap, to prevent the heads of the rivets, screws, or pins cutting
into the strap.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Michael John Haines in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 14th August 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MICHAEL
JOHN HAINES, of Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent, Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Michael John Haines, Her special. licence that I; the said Michael
John Haines, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Michael John Haines, 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 and Ireland, the, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, au
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING STRAPS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Michael John Haines, 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 Invention, 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 Michael John Haines, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained.in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
driving straps. For these purposes, the material (generally leather or hides)
is cut into narrow strips or fillets, each strip or fillet being of the thickness of
the intended driving strap, and these are placed side by side with the cut
edges of the leather or material coming to the upper and under surfaces of the
intended driving strap, until the desired width of strap is obtained.
In

page_text: arranging the strips side by side, care is taken that the ends of the several
strips or fillets come at a distance from each other, so that the strips or fillets
break joint, in order that the strap may not be weaker in one part than in
another. In order to connect together the several strips thus laid side by side
the several strips are pressed together, and holes are bored through them at
intervals from edge to edge of the driving strap; the strips may then be
fastened together by introducing lengths of iron, copper, or other wire, having
a head formed at one end through the holes, and then turning over, clenching
or rivetting the other ends of the wires. Or, the several strips may be united
together by screws screwing through the holes in the several strips, the screws
being serewed into the holes alternately, first from one edge of the strap
and then from the other, so that the heads of half of the screws will be on one
edge, and the heads of the other half will be on the other edge. The several
strips may also be connected together after that holes have been made through
them, as above described, by means of copper or other wire, two wires being
employed for this purpose, and both wires being passed in opposite directions
through each hole, and each wire after it has passed through one hole being
bent round and passed through the next hole, and so on; or, in place of wire
being employed, the several strips may be sewed together, as above described,
by means of twine, or any other material. In place of the holes being made
in the several strips of leather after they have been placed side by side, cach
strip of leather may separately have holes made through it at regular intervals,
so that when the strips are placed side by side, the holes may correspond, and
then be fastened by any of the before-mentioned means.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is, the
manufacturing driving straps, as berein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Michael John Haines, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
MICHAEL JOHN HAINES. (L.S.)