IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTORS OR FASTENINGS FOR ENDLESS DRIVING AND OTHER STRAPS, BANDS, OR CORDS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Powley Alexander, of 36, Southampton Buildings,
in the County of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer and British and Foreign
Patent Agent, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTORS OR
FASTENINGS FOR ENDLESS DRIVING AND OTHER STRAPS, BANDS, OR CORDS."
A communication from abroad by Adolphe Jules Violette, of Paris, in the
Republic of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Powley Alexander at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th July 1881.
EDWIN POWLEY ALEXANDER, of 36, Southampton Buildings, in the County of
Middlesex, Consulting Engineer and British and Foreign Patent Agent. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CONNECTORS OR FASTENINGS FOR ENDLESS DRIVING AND OTHER STRAPS,
BANDS, OR CORDS." A communication from abroad by Adolphe Jules Violette, of
Paris, in the Republic of France.
This Invention relates to certain peculiar constructions and arrangements of
connectors or fastenings for uniting the ends or intermediate lengths or sections of
endless driving and other straps, bands, or cords of any section, and whether
composed of one or more pieces or lengths, whereby the use of laces, buckles, studs,
two-headed fastenings, nails, points, or rivets, which tend more or less to weaken
or injure the strap, band, or cord, is dispensed with. The improved connectors or
fastenings consist, according to one arrangement applicable to flat straps or bands,
whether of leather, rubber, woven or other fibrous material of any kind, of two
superposed metal plates flat or curved to any determined radius, held together by
one or more screws passing through them, such plates being provided or not, as
found desirable, with inner bosses to receive the said screw or screws, and having
projections on their inner or holding surfaces disposed longitudinally or transversely
in such a manner as to ensure a firm hold upon the ends of the strap by causing
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page_text: them to assume an undulated form when the two plates with their holding pro-
jections or teeth are tightened or drawn together by the screw or screws. In fitting
this improved connector or fastening onto a flat strap or band it is simply necessary
to notch the contiguous ends of the band in order to receive the bosses or allow of
the passage of a tightening screw or screws.
As adapted for bands or guts of round section, the improved connector or
fastening consists of two parts, each presenting on the inner side a semi-circular
recess provided with internal circumferentially disposed teeth or projections, so that
when placed together a circular cavity, toothed or roughened inside, will be
presented at each end of the fastening for the reception of the two ends of the
round band or gut, which ends are firmly gripped as in a vice by drawing together
the two halves of the fastening by the aid of a transverse tightening screw or
otherwise.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edwin Powley Alexander in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th January 1882.
EDWIN POWLEY ALEXANDER, of 36, Southampton Buildings, in the County of
Middlesex, Consulting Engineer and British and Foreign Patent Agent. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CONNECTORS OR FASTENINGS FOR ENDLESS DRIVING AND OTHER BANDS,
STRAPS, OR CORDS." A communication from abroad by Adolphe Jules Violette, of
Paris, in the Republic of France.
This Invention relates to certain peculiar constructions and arrangements of
connectors or fastenings for uniting the ends or intermediate lengths or sections
of endless driving and other straps, bands, or cords of any section, and whether
composed of one or more pieces or lengths, whereby the use of laces, buckles, studs,
two headed fastenings, nails, points, or rivets, which tend more, or less to weaken
or injure the strap, band, or cord, is dispensed with. The improved connectors or
fastenings consist, according to one arrangement applicable to flat straps or bands,
whether of leather, rubber, woven or fibrous material of any kind, of two
superposed metal plates flat or curved to any determined radius, held together by
one or more screws passing through them, such plates being provided or not, as
found desirable, with inner bosses to receive the said screw or screws, and having
projections on their inner or holding surfaces disposed longitudinally or transversely
in such a manner as to ensure a firm hold upon the ends of the strap, band, or cord,
by causing to assume an undulated form when the two plates with their holding
projections or teeth are tightened or drawn together by the screw or screws.
In
fitting this improved connector or fastening into a flat strap or band it is simply
necessary to notch the contiguous ends of the strap or band in order to receive the
bosses or allow of the passage of a tightening screw or screws. As adopted for
bands or guts of round section, the improved connector or fastening consists of
two parts, each presenting on the inner side a semi circular recess provided with
internal circumferentially disposed teeth or projections, so that when placed
together a circular cavity, toothed or roughened inside, will be presented at each
end of the fastening for the reception of the two ends of the round band or gut,
which ends are firmly gripped as in a vice by drawing together the two halves of
the fastenings by the aid of a transverse tightening screw or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Powley Alexander, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
EDWIN P. ALEXANDER. (L.S.)