US Patent: 2,179,813
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| Belt Splice
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Patentee:
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| Harry C. Clay (exact or similar names) - Columbus, Bartholomew County, IN |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jan. 28, 1937 |
| Granted: |
Nov. 14, 1939 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Reeves Pulley Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
The present application relates to a belt splice, and more particularly to a splice specifically adapted for use in connection with belts of the type which are used in the well known "Reeves" type of variable speed transmission. As is well known in the art, this type of transmission ordinarily incorporates a belt comprising a web which has little or no lateral rigidity, and to the inner and outer surfaces of which are attached series of laterally rigid blocks, in order to provide the necessary characteristics of a belt to effect a drive between cone pulleys. These belts are ordinarily not integral, but must be closed by connecting the two ends thereof; and a great deal of work has been done in the art looking toward the provision of a completely satisfactory splice for the belt ends.
Claim:
For use with a belt, splicing means comprising a block adapted to be associated with the inner Surfaces of the ends of the belt. said block being formed, upon its face engageable with the belt, with two plane surfaces respectively sloping inwardly from a median line of juncture, and with curved surfaces merging the remote edges of said sloping surfaces with the lateral faces of said block, a cooperating block adapted to be associated with the outer surfaces of the ends of the belt, said last-mentioned block> being formed, upon its face engageable with the belt, with two plane surfaces respectively sloping inwardly from a median line of juncture, and with curved surfaces merging the remote edges of said sloping surfaces with the lateral faces of said last-mentioned block, and means for clamping said first- and second-mentioned blocks against opposite faces of the belt with the sloping surfaces of said second block substantially parallel with the sloping surfaces of said first block, the ends of said belt being received and clamped between said sloping surfaces of the respective blocks. |
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