IMPROVEMENTS IN ENDLESS BANDS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Townsend, of Hopton, in the Parish of
Mirfield, in the County of York, Stuff Merchant, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ENDLESS BANDS."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Samuel Townsend at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 26th June 1874, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
TOWNSEND, of Hopton, in the Parish of Mirfield, in the County of
York, Stuff Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN ENDLESS BANDS," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent

page_text: for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that i am
and true Inventor thereof.
VIIC TITSU
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Townsend, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed in and by the following
statement:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the method of and
apparatus for arranging endless bands, whereby they are intermanufac-
tured or woven into each other, and hooks, screwed or plain, rings,
springs, brackets, clasps, or chains are attached to such bands for various
purposes during the process of manufacture.
Several modifications of my Invention are shewn in the Drawings
accompanying this Specification, the novelty of all consisting in the
various metal or other adjustments being attached to the endless bands
during the process of manufacture.
The application of this Invention to the raising and lowering of
picture frames is as follows: The two rings through which the cord is
usually passed, are attached to an endless band during the process of
manufacture; these are secured to frame in the usual position; the
endless band is then passed through an arrangement by which the band
may be held in any desired position, and consists of a small framework
in which is centred a metal plate which is pressed against the two sides
of the band by means of a spring pressing against the plate; when the
spring is pressed down the cord will move with ease under the plate;
the band is then, from the bottom, passed through a hook or ring
screwed into the middle of the bottom of the frame, and passed up
between the two sides of band on to projecting portion of spring.
Another modification of this arrangement is as follows:-The two
ordinary screwed rings are attached to the endless band during the pro-
cess of manufacture, a ring screw is attached to the picture frame in
the middle at the top, through which a loop of the endless band is
passed, and also through the arrangement before-mentioned; this loop
is simply to be drawn down, and it raises the picture frame to any
desired height or position.

page_text: screwed into woodwork, and the corners of endless band tightened over
them in their proper positions.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Townsend, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of June, One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above-named Samuel Townsend,
in the presence of
JOHN WAUGH,
Engineer & Patent Agent,
Bradford.