IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STRAPS OR BANDS EMPLOYED FOR DRIVING MACHINERY
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Michael John Haines, of Victoria Road Rope
Walk, Bristol, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF STRAPS OR BANDS EMPLOYED FOR DRIVING MACHINERY."
Sealed the 13th June 1865, and dated the 16th December 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Michael John Haines at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th December 1864.
I, MICHAEL JOHN HAINES, of Victoria Road Rope Walk, Bristol, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE-
CONSTRUCTION OF STRAPS OR BANDS EMPLOYED FOR DRIVING MACHINERY," to be
as follows:
This Invention relates to driving straps or bands made by combining
leather with layers or interlacings of steel, copper, or brass, or other suitable
materials, to render the strap flexible, and the present Invention consists of
an improved method of fastening the metal layers to the two outsides of the
leather band, so as to tie all the parts securely together, and also to form
smooth and firm edges to the band.
The following is an example of the means by which these improvements
may be effected:-Through each end of the several strips of metal which
extend nearly across the width which it is desired to make the strap or band, I
form a hole, through which, and also through corresponding holes formed in
long strips of leather I pass a copper pin with a head, and proceed to rivet the
other end of said pin, and in this manner at distances of about one inch and
a balf, more or less, I connect the aforesaid long strips of leather and pieces

page_text: of metal together, and finally sew the pieces of leather together near their
outer edges with waxed thread in the usual way of connecting pieces of
leather together. The middle portion of the strap or band may be of leather,
or other flexible materials connected to the aforesaid pieces of metal at each
side thereof by sewing or rivetting.
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 16th June 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MICHAEL
JOHN HAINES, of Victoria Road Rope Walk, Bristol, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth 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 CONSTRUCTION OF STRAPS OR BANDS EMPLOYED FOR DRIVING MACHINERY,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Michael John Haines,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their bands 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 Michael John Haines, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to driving straps or bands made by combining
leather with layers or interlacings of steel or copper, or brass, or other
suitable materials to render the strap flexible, and the present Invention

page_text: consists of an improved method of fastening the metal layers to the two
outsides of the leather band, so as to tie all the parts securely together, and
also to form smooth and firm edges to the band.
The following is an example of the means by which these improvements
may be effected:-Through each end of the several strips of metal which
extend nearly across the width which it is desired to make the strap or band,
I form a hole, through which, and also through corresponding holes formed
in long strips of leather I pass a copper pin with a head, and proceed to
rivet the other end of the said pin, and in this manner at distances of about
one inch and a half, more or less, I connect the aforesaid long strips of leather
and pieces of metal together, and finally sew the pieces of leather together
near their outer edges with waxed thread in the usual way of connecting
pieces of leather together. The middle portion of the strap or band may be
of leather, or other flexible materials connected to the aforesaid pieces of
metal at each side thereof by sewing or rivetting.
And in order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of
Drawings accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral figures and
letters of reference marked thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figs. 1, 2, 3, respectively represent top plan views of a portion of a strap
or band constructed according to my said Invention; Figure 4 shews a
transverse and vertical section of same, taken through the line A, B, at Fig. 1,
at each of the foregoing Figures I employ similar letters of reference to
denote corresponding parts in so far as such parts appear or can be seen at
each of such Figures respectively.
A, A, mark flat thin pieces of tempered steel interlaced transversely with
other similarly shaped pieces of steel B, the ends whereof are connected by
rivets at A to long strips of leather at C, C', as at Figure 1; or said pieces
of leather if desirable may be sewn as well as rivetted together, as denoted
by the dotted lines, as at D, Figure 2, so as to present as near as may be
flush edges; or instead of one row of rivets two rows of rivets may be
employed, as at D', Figure 2, and when this is the case the row of rivets
marked 6 need not necessarily pass through the metal interlacings A, B, but
simply connect the two thicknesses of leather C, C¹, together; the piece of
leather C is a long strip of the full width of the strap or band, and the
pieces C are long narrow strips of the widths exhibited by the Drawings, the

page_text: space between which may be filled with another strip of leather, or other
suitable flexible materials, and be secured by rivets to the piece C. The
method of pieceing or joining together the ends of straps or bands of the
above construction is the same as heretofore employed in this description of
band with a view of making a flush joint.. I would here remark that instead
of rivetting the ends of the several lengths of pieces of steel A to both of the
layers of leather, I simply rivet them to the upper or top layers, as shewn by
the Drawing at E, E, to retain flexibility of the strap at those parts thereof.
Having now set forth and fully described the nature and object of my said
Invention for "Improvements in the Construction of Straps or Bands
Employed for Driving Machinery, together with the best means I am
acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I would remark,
in conclusion, that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in, and I claim
with reference to the accompanying Drawings the mode set forth and
described of connecting the transverse pieces of metal B to the strips of
leather C, C, by means of rivets in the construction of driving bands or
straps, formed by combining leather with layers or interlacings of steel,
copper, brass, or other suitable materials for rendering such said straps
flexible.
I also claim sewing the pieces of leather C, C³, together near their edges in
combination with rivets, as above described, for the purpose of rendering the
edges of the 'strap or band firm, as above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Michael John Haines, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
MICHAEL JOHN HAINED.
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