AN IMPROVED COUPLING OR FASTENER FOR DRIVING BELTS AND OTHER BANDS AND STRAPS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
COUPLING OR FASTENER FOR DRIVING BELTS AND OTHER BANDS AND STRAPS."
A communication from abroad by Albert Clunan and Charles J. Warren, both
of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, State of New York, United States of
America.
Sealed the 16th April 1880, and dated the 12th November 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th November 1879.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
"AN IMPROVED COUPLING OR FASTENER FOR DRIVING BELTS AND
OTHER BANDS AND STRAPS." [A communication from abroad by Albert Clunan
and Charles J. Warren, both of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, State of New
York, United States of America.]
The object of this Invention is to furnish a device for connecting the ends of
leather, rubber, and other belts, tugs for harness, and other bands and straps, which
shall be so constructed that it may be easily applied, will hold the ends of the belt
or strap securely, and will offer no obstruction to a belt in passing around pulleys.
The Invention consists in combining a plate with a bar or rod bent, threaded, and
provided with end nuts. The bar or rod is of any desired shape, and its ends are
bent upward at right angles so as to pass through holes in the adjacent ends of
the belt or strap, and through holes formed in the ends of the plate, where the bar
is secured in place by nuts screwed upon its ends, or by riveting the said ends
down upon the plate. With this construction the ends of the belt will be firmly
and securely held, and the coupling can pass around pulleys without obstructing
the movement of the belt.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th May 1880.
"
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
AN IMPROVED COUPLING OR FASTENER FOR DRIVING BELTS AND
OTHER BANDS AND STRAPS." A communication from abroad by Albert Clunan
and Charles J. Warren, both of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, State of New
York, United States of America.
The object of this Invention is to furnish a device for connecting the ends of
leather, rubber, and other belts, tugs for harness, and other bands and straps, which
shall be so constructed that it may be easily applied, will hold the ends of the belt
or strap securely, and will offer no obstruction to a belt in passing around pulleys.
The Invention consists in combining a plate with a bar or rod bent, threaded, and
provided with end nuts, as hereinafter described.
In the accompanying Drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of the improvement;
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation taken through the line x, x, Figure 1. Similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
.
A, B, represent the adjacent ends of a belt or other strap to be connected; C is a
bar or rod of any desired shape, the ends of which are bent upward at right angles
so as to pass through holes in the ends A, B, of the belt or strap; D is a plate or
bar having holes formed through its ends to receive the ends of the bar C, where it
is secured in place by nuts screwed upon the ends of the bar C, or by rivetting the
said ends down upon the bar D. With this construction the ends A, B, of the belt
will be firmly and securely held, and the coupling can pass around pulleys without
impeding the movement of the belt.
Having described the nature of the Invention and the manner of performing the
same, I would observe that I am aware that a staple with spring ends that catch
in a plate on the opposite side of a belt is not new, but what I claim as the
Invention to be protected by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
In a belt coupling, the combination with a plate D of a bar or rod C, bent,
threaded, and provided with a nut at each end, as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
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