US600644A - Belt-fastener - Google Patents

Description

(No Medel.)

J. H. HUMES.

BELT FASTENBR.

No. 600,644. Patented Mal15,1898.r

WT/VESSES [NI/ENTOR JOHN I-I. I-IUMES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BELT-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,644, dated March 15, 1898.

Application iiled February 20, 1897. Serial No. 624,393. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. I'IUMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt- Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in joining or splicing belts; and the obj ect of the same is to so form the meeting ends of the belt that the same may be interlooked without the use of cement, sewing, riveting, dac., as in the ordinary fasteners now in use.

The invention also relates to the special punches or dies for forming the interlocking portions of my fastener. f

The invention consists in the novel feature of construction hereinafter fully described, claim ed, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan view showing two pieces of belting spliced at their adjacent ends by interlocking the material of one end with the material of the other end in accordance with my invention, the opposite ends showing the conformation which I give to the respective ends of a belt to be united. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the die which I use to cut the tongues upon one end of the belt, and Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the die or punch for cutting the tongue-receiving slots in the opposite end of the belt.

The end A of the belt is provided with the transversely-extending slots a and the inclined slots b. These inclined slots b open into the transverse slots a, as illustrated, so as to form substantially a letter T, with the stem inclined. 'Ihe opposite end B of the belt is provided with what may be termed dovetails, each projection consisting of a transverse head c, connected to the main portion of the belt by a longitudinal stem cl, so that substantially T-shaped tongues are formed.

Vhen it is desired to unite the belt, the tongues of the end B are twisted so as to be nearly transverse the edge ofthe belt, wherebythey are easily inserted within the inclined slots b of the end A of the belt. When inserted, they are moved forward in the slots until the stem portion CZ of each tongue can be turned into engagement with the transverse slot a, as illustrated in Fig. l. j

When 'the ends of the belt are united, as above described, it is impossible for the tongues to be disengaged from the slots, and a smooth joint is made, whereby the passage of the belt over the pulleys or driving-wheels is made more easy, and stitches or rivets are dispensed with.

For cutting out the inclined and transverse slots I provide the punch or die D, which is provided with a cutting portion E of substantially the same outline as the combined transverse and inclined slot. This cutting portion E is hollow, and the handle portion D `is cut out in the rear of the same, so that the leather may be pushed up and out of the die. For cutting the tongues I provide a die or punch F, provided with the two cutting-surfaces f, which are of a shape and size to cut out onehalf of the square slot between two adjacent tongues, and projecting from the side of one of these cutting portions is the wing or projection g, which serves to make the slits between the heads c of the tongues, as will be clearly understood.

I am aware that it is old to provide a belt with one of its ends formed into T-shaped tongues and its opposite end provided with transverse slots; but it is new, so far as I am aware, to provide a belt with the transverse slots and the inclined slots opening thereinto, as above set forth. The other specific construction of my tongues and slots I claim also to be new.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A belt-fastener having one of its members provided with transverse slots and inclined slots opening thereinto, and the other member provided with T-shaped tongues which are adapted to be inserted within the inclined slots and turned to position in the transverse slots for the purpose of uniting the two ends of the belt, substantially as shown and described.

2. A beltfastener, made from the belt proper, having one of its members provided with rectangular openings located adjacent IOO to the meeting edge thereof, elongated slots opening into said rectangular openings, shoulders formed by the remaining walls of said openings, and separated from one another byy said slots; and the outer member or meeting edge also provided' with reotangularshaped openings, the belt being cut from the center of each opening to its edge forming T-shaped adjacent tongues, which tongues are adapted to be inserted within the elongated slots and turned to a position in the rectangular openings in the opposite member of the belt to bring the tongues on aplane with one another whereby the two ends of the belt are united, substantially as setv forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J OI-IN H. HUMES. Witnesses:

EDWARD F. STASEY, OTTO STREKER.

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