IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF DRIVING BANDS OR STRAPS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Michael John Haines, of No. 4 Victoria Road
Rope Walk, Bristol, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF DRIVING BANDS OR STRAPS."
Sealed the 13th February 1863, and dated the 25th August 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Michael John Haines at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th August 1862.
I, MICHAEL JOHN HAINES, of No. 4, Victoria Road Rope Walk, Bristol,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BANDS OR STRAPS," to be as follows: -
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of driving
bands or straps. In the Specification of an Invention for which Provisional
Protection was granted to me on the 28th August 1860 (No. 2078) was
described the manufacturing driving straps of short strips of leather, hide,
or other suitable material, cut to a width equal to the thickness and to a
length equal to the width of the intended strap. The strips had holes formed
through them, and were threaded side by side on lengths of wire rope,
wire rope thus running longitudinally of the strap.
the
Now according to my present Invention I bind round the lengths of wire
rope with a helical coil of wire in such manner that the coils lie close up to
one another before threading the strips of hide or other material upon them.

page_text: Or in place of employing wire rope thus bound round with wire, straight
lengths of wire bound round with a helical coil of wire may be employed.
According to my present Invention I also form driving straps by threading
short strips of leather or other material, cut as above described, upon cords
composed of raw hide, cut into long thin strips, the strips are softened by
soaking in water, and are then twisted together into a cord, the cord may then
be drawn through a circular die to render it smooth and even, or the short
strips of leather may be threaded on cords composed of lengths of thin strips
of raw hide and lengths of wire twisted together. Cords composed as above
described of strips of raw hide twisted together, or strips of hide twisted into a
cord together with wire, may be employed as driving cords in place of cat-gut
or gutta percha cords. In some cases I also compose driving bands of short
lengths of wire cord or wire bound round with a helical coil of wire, the lengths
of wire thus bound round being placed side by side, and connected together at
their two ends by means of.wires running longitudinally of the band.
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
25th February 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MICHAEL
JOHN HAINES, of No. 4, Victoria Road Rope Walk, Bristol, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth 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, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BANDS OR STRAPS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Michael John Haines, my exe-
cutors 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

page_text: 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 fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of driving
bands or straps. In the Specification of an Invention for which Provisional
Protection was granted to me on the 28th August 1860 (No. 2078) was
described the manufacturing driving straps of short strips of leather, hide, or
other suitable material, cut to a width equal to the thickness and to a length
equal to the width of the intended strap. The strips had holes formed through
them, and were threaded side by side on lengths of wire rope, the wire rope
thus running longitudinally of the strap.
Now according to my present Invention, I bind round the lengths of wire
rope with a helical coil of wire in such manner that the coils lie close up to
one another before threading the strips of hide or other material upon them,
or in place of employing wire rope thus bound round with wire, straight
lengths of wire bound round with a helical coil of wire may be employed.
Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed shows a driving strap composed
of short strips a, a, of leather, cut to a length equal to the width of the strap
and to a breadth equal to its thickness, the strips have holes formed through
them in order that they may be threaded on the lengths of wire rope b, which
run lengthwise of the strap, each length of wire rope being bound round with a
helical coil of wire c as is shewn, the wire and wire rope are both preferred
to be of iron, but they may be of other metal. Figure 2 shews a strap com-
posed of short strips of leather a, a, threaded on straight lengths of wire b
bound round with a helical coil, three lengths of wire being bound together
by each coil, but this may be varied.
According to my present Invention I also form driving straps by threading
short strips of leather or other material cut as above described upon cords
composed of raw hide cut into long thin strips, the strips are softened by
soaking in water and are then twisted together into a cord, the cord may then
be drawn through a circular die to render it smooth and even, or the short
strips of leather may be threaded on cords composed of lengths of thin strips
of raw bide and lengths of wire twisted together. Figure 3 shews a driving
strap composed of short strips a, a, of leather, threaded on cords composed of
strips of raw hide twisted together as above described. Figure 4 shews a

page_text: strap composed of strips of leather threaded on cords composed of strips of
raw hide. twisted into a cord together with wire, or in place of the wire and
hide being twisted together, the hide may be twisted around a wire instead of
being twisted together with it. This I prefer to do by a machine similar to
the jack machine used by rope makers, the machine is composed of a rotating
pulley (or pulleys if more than one rope is to be made at the same time) on
the centre or axis of which is a hook to which one end of the wire and of each
of the strips of hide is attached, the wire is then led through a hole which
passes through the centre of a conical piece of wood, and the strips of hide are
laid in grooves on the exterior of the cone. The strips of hide will thus on
the rotation of the pulley be twisted around the wire. Cords composed as
above described of strips of raw hide twisted together or strips of hide twisted
into a cord in combination with wire, may be employed as driving cords in
place of cat-gut or gutta percha cords. A number of cords made in either of
the above ways may also be twisted together into a cord to form a driving
cord to be used in place of cat-gut or gutta percba cords or a number of cords
made in either of the above ways may be placed side by side and bound together
so as to form a flat driving strap by means of a strip of leather or hide or
other material as seen at Figure 5. a, a, being the cords composed of cat-gut
in combination with wire, and 6 the strip of leather or other material by which
they are united. Driving cords made in either of the above ways may also be
protected externally by wire, this may be done by surrounding the cord with a
helical coil of wire, the coils being close up to each other, or wire or strands of
wire may be twisted around the cords in like manner to that in which electric
telegraph cables are now coated with wire, a flat driving strap may also be
constructed by several cords protected externally with wire as above described
being connected together side by side.
In witness whereof, I, the said Michael John Haines, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of February in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
MICHAEL JOHN HAINES. (L.B.)