AN IMPROVED COMBINATION BELT FOR MACHINERY OR CARRYING PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: We ROBERT BIBBY JONES of the firm of Garnock Bibby and Co, Rope and belt
Manufacturers, of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, and JAMES HUGHES in
the employ of the said firm and of Liverpool aforesaid do hereby declare the nature
of our said invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINATION BELT FOR MACHINERY OR
CARRYING PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a cheap rope belting, a belting that shall have
all the wearing qualities of flat ropes with the smoothness and adherence of canvas
or other belting.
For this purpose we make a backing preferably of sewn canvas, and when
sewing the canvas we sew on the back thereof ropes stretched straight and sewn
side by side longitudinally. The ropes can be with twists all one way or
alternately namely a rope with twists one way and the next with twists the
opposite way. After the ropes which are preferably well tarred are sewn on, the
whole is put between rolls and powerfully compressed so as to flatten the ropes
out, and then beeswax and tallow or other suitable adhesive material according to
the use required is rubbed in if required to fill up the interstices.
In place of canvas other good strong backing can be used, and if the rope side
be used as the wearing side a comparatively light backing will maintain the flat
rope intact. In this way strong durable rope belts, or as they are oftener called
flat ropes can be made instead of making them by the present very expensive and
difficult method of sewing them the one to the other. This belting is applicable
for machine pulleys, for creepers, for carrier belts and the like.

page_text: We, ROBERT BIBBY JONES, of the firm of Garnock, Bibby and Co. Rope and Belt
Manufacturers, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, and JAMES HUGHES in the
employ of the said firm, and of Liverpool aforesaid do hereby declare the nature
of our said invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINATION BELT FOR MACHINERY OR
CARRYING PURPOSES" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object an improvement in machine belting which will
enable the belt to withstand frictional wear to a wonderful degree, which will give
greater pliability, and thus allow the use of pulleys of smaller circumference than
could be economically employed with leather or canvas belting of equal thickness,
and lastly which gives the belt an increased weight and thus enables it to do its
work with an amount of slackness that would be impracticable with ordinary
belting. We obtain this result by a combination of rope with ordinary belting.
Hitherto flat ropes or rope belts have been made in two ways: 1st, the strands
have been platted or braided into a flat rope at outset, 2nd a series of ordinary
ropes have been sewn together side by side.
Now rope belts will last much longer than canvas ones if properly constructed,
as they stand friction much better, canvas belting however when shielded from
directly fraying action is immensely strong and durable.
Our invention is designed to give the durability of rope belts with the tenacity
of canvas, and is best described by aid of the accompanying drawing.
A is a strong backing of any tough strong material suitable for belting, we
prefer canvas, one or more thickness well sewn together. When sewing the canvas
we sew on the back thereof ropes BB stretched straight and sewn side by side
longitudinally. The ropes can be with twists all one way or alternately, namely,
a rope with twists one way, and the next with twists the opposite way.
the ropes which are preferably well tarred are sewn on, the whole is put between
rolls and powerfully compressed so as to flatten the ropes out, and then if desirable
bees wax and tallow, or other suitable adhesive material according to the use
required is rubbed in if required to fill up the interstices.
After
In place of canvas, other good strong backing can be used, and if the rope side
be used as the wearing side, a comparatively light backing will maintain the flat
rope intact. In this way strong durable rope belts, or as they are oftener called
flat ropes, can be made instead of making them by the present very expensive and
difficult method of sewing them, the one to the other. This belting is applicable
for machine driving, for creepers, for carrier belts, and the like.
In some cases we may sew rope on both sides of the canvas, but for nearly all
purposes a single layer of ropes on one side is best.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1st. As an improved article of. manufacture, a belt formed of ropes stretched
straight, placed side by side, and stitched in that position to a backing of ordinary
belting material, substantially as described.
2nd A belt formed of ropes stretched straight, stitched side by side longitudinally
to a backing of ordinary belting material, and pressed flat, substantially as
described.

page_text: 3rd In a belt formed of ropes stitched longitudinally to a backing of ordinary
belting material, a filling-up of beeswax and tallow, by which means a flexible
solid and greasy belt is formed, very durable and biting firmly on the pulleys.
4th The process of manufacturing belting, which consists in sewing ropes
stretched straight and placed side by side to a backing of ordinary belting material,
rolling the same flat between rollers, and rubbing in with adhesive material,
substantially as described.