IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BANDS OR BELTS FOR MACHINERY AND OTHER
Year: 1865

page_text: . LETTERS PATENT to George Hurn and Daniel Hurn, of Norwich, in the
County of Norfolk, Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BANDS OR BELTS FOR MACHINERY AND OTHER
Sealed the 18th July 1865, and dated the 3rd February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Durn and Daniel
Hurn at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 3rd February 1865.
We, GEORGE HURN and DANIEL HUBN, of Norwich, in the County of Norfolk,.
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BANDS OR BELTS FOR MACHINERY AND
OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows (that is to say):-
Our Invention has reference to an improved description of driving band or
belt applicable to machinery or other useful purposes, whereby greater strength
and durability is obtained, rendering the same less subject to wear and tear
from the cutting of the selvages over the drum than at present, and consists
in forming and employing a woven combination of longitudinal threads or
warp, composed of vegetable or other fibre, such as hemp, jute, or otherwise
held or bound together through the medium of a transverse weft or shute of

page_text: leather, or hide, or other like material, the said longitudinal warp being inter-
woven therewith so as to form a firm and durable selvage of leather and admit
of the band being made of any width or texture.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Hurn and Daniel Hurn in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 28th July 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE HURN
and DANIEL HURN, of Norwich, in the County of Norfolk, Manufacturers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
George Hurn and Daniel Hurn, Her special licence that we, the said George
Hurn and Daniel Hurn, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said George Hurn and Daniel Hurn, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BANDS OR BELTS
FOR MACHINERY AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said George Hurn and Daniel Hurn, 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 Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Hurn and Daniel Hurn, 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, and the Drawings therein referred to (that is to say) :-
Our Invention has reference to an improved description of driving band or
belt applicable to machinery or other useful purposes whereby greater strength
and durability is obtained, thereby rendering the same less subject to wear
and tear from the cutting of the selvage over the drum than at present, and

page_text: consists in the employment of a woven combination of longitudinal threads
or warp composed of vegetable or other fibres held or bound together through
the medium of a transversal weft or shute of leather, hide, or other like material
interwoven between the said longitudinal warp, so as to form a hard and durable
selvage, the said combination admitting of other modifications in the external
facings being employed, such as the interlacing of strips or strands of leather
above and below the fabric, placed either diagonally, crosswise, or in any other
suitable manner at alternate or intermediate intervals or spaces either through,
over, or along the same, and woven to any width or texture required.
And in order that our said Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, we now proceed to describe it by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and figures thereon
marked (that is to say)
:-
Fig. 1 represents a front or surface view of a portion of a driving band or
belt manufactured in accordance with our said Invention; Fig. 2 an edge
or side view of the same, showing the selvage formed of leather; Figs. 3, 4, 5,
and 6, corresponding views of modifications thereof, showing the application
of the strips or strands of leather or otherwise to the external facings as
above described. In each Figure the same letters of reference denote similar
corresponding parts.
A, A, vegetable or animal fibre forming the warp; B, B, leather weft or
shute; C, C, turns of the weft producing the selvages for preventing the wear and
tear of the same upon the drums or riggers when driving or giving motion to
agricultural and other steam machinery; D, D, external facings of leather,
hide, or otherwise; E, E, coiled edgings of the same forming an additional
protection to the selvages.
In conclusion to the foregoing description it may be here necessary to note
that the warp may be composed of any of the numerous descriptions of
vegetable and animal fibre such as Russian, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, French
East Indian, Manilla, or other descriptions of hemp known and in use for
similar purposes, employing also in like manner jute, flax, horse and other
hair, china grass, and aloe fibre, also cotton, silk, and worsted or woolen yarn,
or combinations thereof. And we would further note that the weft or shute
as above described, as also the said external facings shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5,
and 6, may be formed of all descriptions of leather, hides, or skins of animals,
cut and shaped as may be found necessary, and we would again further note
that the said transversal leather and hempen cord or line bands may be coated
or covered with preparations of tar, oil, varnish, or other compositions, or
painted in like manner for the purpose of hardening and preserving the same.

page_text: Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this our said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried
into effect, we would have it clearly understood that we do not intend to con-
fine ourselves to the precise details herein-before set forth and described, as the
same might be otherwise varied without departing from the general principle
of these our said improvements, nor do we claim as of our said Invention the
exclusive use of the said parts, and combinations or processes thereof, except
when the same are employed in and for the purposes of our said Invention,
which we hereby declare to consist in the employment of a weft or shute of
leather, hide, or otherwise, in woven combination with longitudinal strands or
warp of vegetable or animal fibre, for forming therewith the texture and selvages
of driving bands or belts, with or without the said external facings, together with
any or all of the various descriptions of paints, oils, varnishes, or other preserva-
tive coatings, in the manner and for the purposes herein-before set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Hurn and Daniel Hurn, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fourth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
GEORGE HURN. (L.S.)
DANIEL HURN.
(L.S.)