IMPROVED COUPLINGS FOR MACHINE BELTING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Chase, junior, of 68, Fenchurch
Street, London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
COUPLINGS FOR MACHINE BELTING."
Sealed the 1st December 1874, and dated the 2nd June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Chase
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 2nd June 1874.
I, WILLIAM HENRY CHASE, junior, of 68, Fenchurch Street, London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVED COUPLINGS FOR MACHINE BELTING," to be as follows:-
This Invention of improved couplings for machine belting consists of
straight or current metallic links of a size proportionate to the thickness
of the belting. Each link is retained in the belt at each end of the link
by a metallic cross head slotted to prevent displacement after it is
inverted in the link by the working of the belt whilst it is in motion.

page_text: The belt being cut or morticed at each end to correspond the two
ends are brought together, and the links being passed through each end
of the links receive the cross head pieces, which are then retained by the
link dropping into the slot of the cross head.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Henry Chase in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HENRY CHASE, junior, of 68, Fenchurch Street, London, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Henry Chase, Her special license that
I, the said William Henry Chase, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Henry Chase, 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, an Invention for "IMPROVED COUPLINGS
FOR MACHINE BELTING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said William Henry Chase, 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 William Henry Chase, 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 of improved couplings for machine belting consists of
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page_text: straight or curved metallic links of a size proportionate to the thickness
of the belting. Each link is retained in the belt at each end of the link
by a metallic cross head slotted to prevent displacement after it is
inserted in the link by the working of the belt whilst it is in motion.
In the Drawings hereto attached forming part of this Specification
a are the links curved and straight in plan and elevation; b, the cross
heads; c, a longitudinal section of the ends of a belt joined together
with the curved fasteners, the link and cross head in elevation; d, view
of the same belt ends from above.
The belt being cut or morticed at each end to correspond, the two
ends are brought together, and the links being passed through each end
of the links receives the cross head pieces, which are then retained by
the link dropping into the slot of the cross head.
Having now described and particularly set forth the nature of the
said Invention, and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I would
have it understood that what I claim as my Invention is, the metallic
slotted cross heads in combination with the straight or curved links for
the couplings of machine belting, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Chase, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.