Improvements in Belting.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 23th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 29th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Belting.
I, GEORGE EDDISON STEAD, of Skinner Lane Works, Leeds, in the County of
York, Linen Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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My invention relates to belting and consists in an improved combination of the
ordinary materials used for making belts with metal bands, the object of my invention
being the production of belts that while retaining the required pliability will not
stretch or be affected by changes in the humidity of the atmosphere or by water and
steam in the same way as ordinary belts.
In carrying my invention into effect, I rivet longitudinal narrow flat bands or strips
of copper or non-corroding tough and pliable copper-alloy to a belt or to one of the
layers or folds of a belt made in any ordinarily used way by means of rivets passed at
regular intervals through said bands and belt or layer. The bands or strips are
preferably placed at an equal distance from each other in the width of the belt, but
may also be placed nearer to each other either at the edges of the belt or in the middle
of the belt, and may be all of equal width, or of different widths, as may be required
in order best to attain the object of my invention under the conditions in which the
belt may have to work.
The belt, to which the metal bands are rivetted, may be an ordinary single belt
made of leather, duck, or woven, or made in any other ordinarily used manner and of
any ordinarily used materials; By preference however I use double or treble belts,
rivetting the bands of copper or copper alloy to one of the layers composing the belt,
and attaching to the face of the layer thus prepared another layer by any ordinarily
used means, such as sewing with thread or copper wire, rivetting or lacing, so that
the bands are between these two layers, and in some cases attaching a third layer of
material to the back of the layer to which the bands are rivetted. The several layers
composing the double or treble belt may be of the same material, or of different
materials, for instance the bands may be rivetted to a woven or duck belt, faced and
backed by leather, or vice-versa.
In some cases I place wires, strips or plates of non-corrosive metal across the belt at
intervals and fasten them to the longitudinal bands or to the other material of the
belt for the purpose of preventing the belt from shrinking in width if used in localities
where water or steam is employed.
Dated this 30th day of May 1889.
EMMOTT & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Belting.
I GEORGE EDDISON STEAD of Skinner Lane Works Leeds in the County of York
Linen Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:
My invention relates to belting and consists in an improved combination of the
ordinary materials used for making non-metallic belts with metal bands, the object of
my invention being the production of belts that while retaining the required pliability
will not stretch or be affected by changes in the humidity of the atmosphere or by
water and steam in the same way as ordinary belts, my improvements being more
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page_text: particularly intended for use with elevator belts but applicable to driving belts
as well.
On the sheet of drawings appended hereunto figure 1 shows a cross section and
figure 2 a plan of a belt made on my improved system. In carrying my invention
into effect I rivet longitudinal flat bands or strips of copper or other tough and pliable
metal to a belt made in any ordinarily used way for manufacturing non-metallic belts.
By preference I rivet the metal bands or strips a. a. to a separate layer of canvas,
woven belting or leather b. by means of rivets c. c. passed at regular intervals through
the bands a. and the layer b. and fold the latter up inside a folded belt e. of canvas
cotton duck or similar material sowing the folds together by threads d. d. or their
equivalent.
The bands however may also be rivetted to one of the folds of the belt e. or to the
top of the folded belt or to a belt made of leather or other ordinarily used material
and in any other ordinarily used manner. To the belt strengthened with metal bands
thus made one or more other layers of any non-metallic material ordinarily used for
belts may be attached by any ordinarily used means, such as sewing with thread or
copper wire, rivetting or lacing, either on one or on both sides, for instance a layer of
leather may be placed on one side and a woven or folded belt g. on the other side of
the belt e. as shewn in dotted lines on figure 1 and the three layers sewn together.
The several layers composing the double or multiple belt may be made of the same
material or of different materials.
The metal bands or strips are ordinarily placed at regular distances from each
other as shewn on the drawings but may be placed nearer each other either at the edges
or in the middle of the belt and may be all of equal width as shewn on the drawings or
of different widths as may be required in order best to attain the object of my inven-
tion under the conditions in which the belt may have to work.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Firstly The combination with a non-metallic belt of longitudinal bands or strips
of tough and pliable metal rivetted to said belt or to one of the layers or folds com-
posing said belt substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated on the
drawings.
Secondly A belt composed of one or more layers or folds of non-metallic material
and of longitudinal bands or strips of tough and pliable metal rivetted to said layers or
folds or to one of the layers or folds substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 27th day of February 1890