Improvements in Belt Fasteners.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Belt Fasteners.
We, JEAN BAPTISTE PARRIE, of the City of Hull, in the county of Ottawa, in the
Province of Quebec, machinist, and JAMES HENRY CONNOR, of the City of Ottawa,
in the county of Carleton, in the Province of Ontario, manufacturer, all in the
Dominion of Canada, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN BELT FASTENERS, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
:-
Our invention relates to devices for connecting the ends of belts.
The object of our invention is to provide means for connecting the ends of belts or
straps in an expeditious durable and cheap manner.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of our improved belt fastener.
Fig. 2 shows the inner or contact face of a spliced belt having our improved
fasteners applied.
Fig. 3 shows the reverse side of the belt splice shown in fig. 2, one of the lock
wires B being shown in position ready for insertion.
Fig. 4 is a perspective sectional view showing another mode of application of our
improved fastener, and
Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing still another mode of application.
Our improved belt fastener consists of two pieces of stout wire, one being bent
to form a series of loops and the other a straight piece adapted to pass through the
loops of the other, and resembling together the threads in a lock stitch seam.
A is a stout wire bent to resemble as near as may be the thread inserted in a seam
by the needle of a lock stitch sewing machine, and consisting of a straight part or
base interrupted by a series of loops a forming eyes a¹. 13 is a straight or lock
wire resembling and representing the thread put on the reverse side of the scam by
the shuttle of a sewing machine, and forming a key or lock. The lockwire B is
inserted into the eyes a of the loops a and the latter are made of such a length that
there is sufficient room between the inside of the lock wire B and the inside of the
base or straight longitudinal part of the wire A, for the collective thickness of the
strap or belt ends to be connected, care being had to make a snug fit, for which
purpose one of the ends of the wire B may be pointed for the purpose of inserting
it more easily and tightening the joint.
A joint is made by punching into the belt ends to be connected, a series of holes
The wire A is then
of such size and pitch as correspond to and receive the loops a.
applied by inserting the loops a into the holes, so that the eyes a project sufficiently
on the reverse side and the straight longitudinal parts of the wire A lying snugly on
the belt, the lockwire B is then inserted in the eyes a¹ of the loops a on the reverse
side.
In a splice joint (figs. 2 and 3) the two belt ends C Care connected by two or
more fasteners A B, inserted from the contact or driving side, so that the lockwire
comes on the reverse side of the belt.
Thin narrow belts D and E may be more readily joined as shown in figs. 4 and 5.
These applications differ from each other merely by having in the latter all the punch
holes, except the end ones, cut open to the edge of the strap. In joining straps as
shown in these two figures it is desirable that the straight longitudinal or base part of
the wire A shall form a straight line, whereas in a splice joint, as figs. 2 and 3, the
shanks of the loops a may be parallel and the base may thus form a double or alternate
line. as shown at F in fig. 2.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. A belt fastener consisting of a stout wire A bent into such shape as to resemble
the thread inserted by the needle of a lock stitch sewing machine, forming a straight
base interrupted by a series of loops a with eyes for the reception of a lock wire, and
the straight lockwire B adapted for insertion in the eyes af of the loops a of the
wire A, substantially as set forth.
2. In a belt fastening the combination of the ends of a belt punched to receive the
loops a of a wire A, a wire A bent to have a straight base and a series of loops a
adapted to be inserted in the perforations of the belt ends and extending through the
collective thickness of the ends to be connected, and a lockwire B passing through the
projecting eyes a' of the loops a, substantially as set forth.
Deted this Second day of March A.D. 1889.
TOUT
DADDIE and
JEAN B. PARRIE, and
JAMES H. CONNOR.
Per A. Harvey,
Their Attorney.
Deted this Second day of March A.D. 1689.
JEAN B. PARRI and
JAMES H. CONNOR.
Per A. Harvey,
Their Attorney.