Abstract: A connector for a flat belt having an end with front and back faces has a U-section end clip having front and back legs adapted to embrace the belt end against the respective faces thereof and a bight portion interconnecting outer ends of the legs. Each leg is formed with at least two throughgoing holes that align with the holes of the leg on the opposite face of the belt. A relatively soft metal plate extending a full width of the belt end lies between the front leg and the front face of the belt. Staples driven through the holes from the front face of the belt pierce through the soft metal plate and are crimped over on the back leg.

Abstract: A hinged fastener for splicing transverse ends of conveyor belts together with the belt fastener having teeth that are bent from one of the fastener plates for piercing and sinking into the belt to increase the holding power of the fastener. In the preferred form, the fastener is attached to the belt end with two rivets with the teeth being adjacent the rivets to provide a small, low cost, high performance fastener. The teeth are formed by bending them down from the outer edge of the plate and about a bend line parallel to the inner edge of the plate so that the teeth face the belt end to keep the teeth from being pulled through the belt material. The location of the teeth adjacent the rivets maximizes the depth of penetration of the teeth into the belt for improved fastener holding power and minimizes the likelihood that the teeth will be bent upward and lose holding power when the belt is highly tensioned.

Abstract: The apparatus of the present invention includes a tube having locking apparatus at one end that is inserted into a hinge joint in a first direction. A lead wire is inserted into the tube in the opposite direction and locked in place within the tube. Then the tube is withdrawn from the joint with the lead wire still attached. The apparatus also includes a web shaped bib member having at least one opening therein for gripping by a human hand to assist in positioning the belt. The method of the invention has application to a method of securing the first end of a conveyor belt with respect to the second end of the conveyor belt wherein the first end and second end each include part of a hinged joint that includes a plurality of cylindrical section shaped members.

Abstract: A pair of similar U-section clips each have a pair of legs secured to a respective belt end and a plurality of spaced knuckles that are interleaved to form a transversely extending passage. A coupling rod extending through the passage and interconnecting the clips has a relatively soft and bendable core pin and a helicoidal wrap of a wear-resistant hard material surrounding and directly engaging the pin and engaging the clip knuckles. The wrap can be made of an austenitic manganese steel and the pin can be a length of highly flexible steel cable.

Abstract: A connector for securing together two belt ends has a pair of similar U-section clips each having a pair of legs secured to the respective belt end and a plurality of spaced knuckles. The knuckles are interleaved to form a transversely extending passage, and a connector rod extends through the passage and interconnects the clips. The rod is made of a hard austenitic manganese steel.

Abstract: A mechanical belt fastener for joining the open ends of a conveyor belt has a first row and a second row of legs arranged parallel to one another with a distance between the rows on both sides of a folding area. The legs are bendable in the folding area to form loops and have bent tips that penetrate material of the belt. Legs of the two rows extending lengthwise on both sides of the folding area and the legs in the first row in a first section extend up to a continuous first strip that extends transversely with respect to lengths of the legs. The legs of the first section are attached to the first strip, and the legs adjacent to one another in each row are of different lengths relative to the folding area. Each two legs of the second row are connected through a second strip with one another to form leg pairs and the second strip is interrupted in a direction of immediately adjacent leg pairs of the second row.

Abstract: A combination of a belt fastener having upper and lower plates joined by arcuate hinge loops and staples preassembled in apertures formed in the upper plates is provided with the staples cooperating with the plates to capture an end of a belt between the plates. The edges of the apertures provide the staples with vertically spaced areas of interference fit with the combination of the preassembled staples and fasteners being effective to reduce the time required to install these plate-type fasteners on bell ends while also holding the staples in an upright, pre-set position against forces that would otherwise cause the staple to slide against the aperture edges until a sufficient driving force is applied for driving the legs through belt material to attach the fastener on a belt end.

Abstract: An industrial belt splice assembly having two industrial belt portions each including opposite faces and an end portion formed to define a splice element. The splice elements have knuckles formed therein. The knuckles are intermeshed and have bores therein which are substantially in alignment. A hinge pin extends through the aligned bores in the knuckles and interlocks the splice elements. The splice assembly further comprises a hard splice guard mounted on each industrial belt member. The splice guard substantially covers the knuckles and protects the splice from damage.

Abstract: A toothed belt is provided with at least one end attachment part for connecting an end portion of a toothed belt to a housing part or a component to be driven. The end attachment part is a formed strip made of metal or plastic in order to make the attachment of the toothed belt quicker and simpler. The strip has elements or sections which engage in the teeth of the end portion and are securely held therein. In the assembled condition, the end attachment part includes a portion to facilitate a mechanical connection at its end facing away from the end portion of the toothed belt.

Abstract: A belt joint is formed by a pair of U-shaped clips joined to respective belt ends and has interleaved bights and a rod extending along an axis through the interleaved bights of the clips to connect the belt ends together. The clips are provided inside the bights in contact with the rod with a lining of a low-friction material. This lining can be a metal alloy, for instance one containing copper such as bronze. Alternately it can be a plastic, for instance polytetrafluorethylene.

Abstract: A belt splice for connecting the ends of a belt having a plurality of parallel rods. The belt splice includes a pair of belt connectors, each connector has a belt engaging end and a flexible joint engaging end. A flexible joint secured between the pair of connectors being made from rubber with a rigid pin embedded in each end. The rigid pins cooperating with fasteners to secure the connectors to the flexible joint.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for supporting a plurality of rivets in a desired orientation and spacing for insertion of the rivets as a group into the plurality of apertures of a belt fastener. The rivet holder comprises two portions which are releasably interconnected such that the two portions are separable upon application of manual force thereto to release the rivets from the rivet holder as a group upon application of manual force. In one embodiment, the rivet holder comprises two portions which are pivotally interconnected in such a manner that the two portions are not separable until sufficiently pivoted with respect to one another. This prevents the two portions from separating prior to the time of intended use, as may otherwise occur during transport or the like in which there may be forces acting on the rivets tending to force the two rivet holder portions apart which would result in the premature release of the rivets.

Abstract: This method relates to the production of connectors each embodied by a row of substantially U-shaped clips formed in their curved part with a row of regularly spaced-apart apertures which separate the hinge elements from one another. The following metal deep drawing and pressing operations are performed consecutively in the central part of a metal strip, forming an aperture of reduced cross-section in the center of the place intended for each aperture required to be present between two hinge elements; widening each such aperture and pressing in the edges to form a collar which projects from a surface of the strip; bending the sides of each collar around on to the corresponding surface of the metal strip; and bending the strip round into a U-shape by the surface towards which the collar edges have been bent round being inwardly directed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an integral one piece plastic fastener for securing belt ends together. The fastener has upper and lower plastic plates clasped to a belt end with integral, hollow rivets projecting from the upper plate through openings in the bottom plate and with hollowed ends of the rivets deformed to form rivet heads for maintaining clasping of the plastic plates on the belt end. Also disclosed is a rivet head forming tool which smoothly forms rivet heads by a spinning process in which a rotating tool is forced against the hollow end of the rivet and spun with sufficient velocity and applied with a high force to create a sufficient heat and pressure to cause the end wall of the rivet to curl and turn over radially outwardly to form a rivet head tightly pushing against the lower plate of the fastener.

Abstract: A toothed drive belt for a printer or other device is provided at each end with a slotted clip or termination which is secured in place by engaging slots therein with teeth on the belt and by wrapping the termination around the end portion of the belt. The termination includes an aperture in a portion extending outwardly from the end portions of the belt. A tensioner for retaining the belt in operative relation to associated gears or other elements includes hooks which engage the apertures in the terminations. The terminations can be assembled on the belt ends by engaging the ends of the belts with termination portions of an article including both termination portions and an interconnecting portion, bending side portions and fingers of the termination portions around the end portions of the belt, and then removing the interconnecting portion.

Abstract: a belt splice for connecting the ends of a belt having a plurality of parallel rods thereon. The belt splice includes an upper plate portion with a rod receiving slot and a fastener flange extending distally from the rod receiving slot so as to space a fastener opening on the fastener flange rearwardly from the rod receiving slot. A lower plate portion for engaging the underside of the belt. Matching bolt holes in the lower plate portion and the fastener flange for a fastener to secure the plates to the ends of a belt.

Abstract: A seal fitted between two sections of a conveyor belt is constituted by a member of resilient material having a generally U-shaped cross-section which can be placed astride the end portion of a belt section to be assembled, beneath the belt-fasteners of the corresponding row of a coupling device. The web of the seal has a series of transverse cut-out portions so arranged as to receive the end portion of the hinge-knuckle of one of the belt-fasteners of the oppositely-facing row and to delimit a corresponding number of narrow strips which are intended to be applied against the coupling-pin. Each strip has the shape of a loop forming a projection opposite to the side which is to be applied on the coupling-pin. Thus the loop can be compressed or stretched-out to a greater or lesser extent according to the thickness of the conveyor belt.

Abstract: Each belt connector or each clip is substantially so U-shaped as to be engaged with both sides of the corresponding edge of a conveyor belt (T) in order there to be secured by means of a U-shaped fixing staple or cramp of metal wire, whose arms are pressed through apertures in the bowed parts of each clip and through the strip between them. In the bowed part of each clip, to receive the staple ends, each aperture disposed opposite a tine of such a staple is connected, by way of a groove or channel or the like contrived in the outside surface of this same zone, to another aperture through which the corresponding tine can be led. The same can therefore be returned to inside the clip in order there to be pressed again into the conveyor belt or to engage between the same and the corresponding bowed part of the clip, something which occurs automatically when the staple ends are bent around and pressed against an anvil on which the clips are supported while the staples are driven in and secured in situ.

Abstract: This disclosure shows a novel shaped pintle wire for papermachine clothing. The intended use of the pintle wire is to close a pin seam by joining the loops formed by the machine-direction yarns at each end of an open-ended papermachine fabric. The present pintle has a non-circular cross section with a major dimension and a minor dimension. The major dimension stretches the loops and reduces seam gap. The minor dimension is approximately equal to the thickness of the fabric under load. Both serve to reduce the marking of the paper sheet by the seam region.

Abstract: A coupling device forming a hinge pin for interconnecting connector eleme secured to conveyor belt ends, has a threaded end for facilitating the driving of the hinge pin into a channel formed by the connector elements when these connector elements intermesh. The threaded end of the hinge pin may be a deparate element that can be attached to a hinge pin in a remobable manner.

Abstract: A connection arrangement to provide an endless belt, especially for a screening rod belt. The band ends are securely disposed between essentially U-shaped fittings that are held together by a transverse pin. To better utilize the band strength, the lateral edges of the legs of the fittings are provided with bent portions against the greatest portion of which the side surfaces of the bands rest. Securement elements are used for the fittings and the band ends, and are driven in the manner of nails accompanied by displacement of material.

Abstract: A wire belt fastener is formed from a piece of wire to have a wire body having a pair of arms joined by a U-shaped hinge pin section. The ends of the wire are flattened to form wide areas having grooves to receive the head and the bent ends of a staple. The fasteners are aligned in a juxtaposed array by a connector wire or rod extending normal to the arms and spanning across a series of belt fasteners to space them evenly to receive interdigitated hinge loops of another array of belt fasteners. A belt stop comprising a projecting piece of wire is secured to an inner surface of one arm of the wire belt fastener to be abutted by the cut belt end to limits its insertion into the gap between the arms of the wire belt fastener. To reduce the lateral width of the belt fasteners and to place more metal in the splice, the wire cross-section at the hinge loop is substantially oblong with flat faces of adjacent, intermeshed fasteners being side by side.

Abstract: A fastener and fastener assembly for coupling the ends of a conveyor belt to form a continuous belt where the preferred embodiment is a belt fastener having an upper and lower arm connected by a loop, and having a belt stop positioned to limit insertion of a conveyor belt end. The assembly utilizes a first and second set of fasteners mounted on opposite belt ends which intermesh to define a hinge passage for a hinge pin to couple the belt ends together. The reach-back of the belt ends into the belt fasteners is maximized as the belt stops are aligned with their belt loops and positioned to abut the belt end at a location where the exterior surface of a belt loop of the opposite belt fasteners is engaging or nearly engaging the belt end.

Abstract: A hinge-pin for coupling two rows of belt-fasteners mounted to the ends of a belt-conveyor or the like is constituted by a series of metallic elements fitted in succession around a flexible axial core. Each element has the approximate shape of a semi-cylindrical rod and carries two projecting lugs at each end. These elements are placed on each side of the flexible core in two inverted rows and in staggered relation from one row to the next. The projecting lugs of both ends of each element are engaged in corresponding cavities of the opposite elements of the other row. The different elements disposed in succession are thus interengaged in the axial direction with a possibility of limited displacement of the elements in the other directions, thus endowing the hinge-pin with the requisite flexibility.

Abstract: A pair of harvester belts have ends joined to form an endless loop by hinged belt fasteners of identical shape. Parallel rods span the endless belts and one of the parallel rods has ends inserted into interleaved loops on adjacent belt fasteners to form a hinge pin connection. In one embodiment, only the belt fastener has only a single plate secured to one side of the belt by threaded fasteners. In another embodiment, the belt fastener has both upper and lower plates with the upper plate having a channel to receive a parallel rod end and fasteners secure the parallel rods, the upper plate, the belt and the lower plate.

Abstract: A device for coupling the hinge-knuckles of two complementary series of belt-fasteners fixed respectively on each edge of a conveyor belt is constituted by a series of independent rod segments. The maximum length of each segment corresponds to the length of the hinge-knuckles of two opposite belt-fasteners. The rod segments have relatively displaced portions each corresponding to the width of one hinge-knuckle and are thus stationarily fixed in the longitudinal direction after positioning. The different segments are initially joined together by means of at least one temporary coupling member which is readily shearable at the time of initial use and troughing of the conveyor belt.

Abstract: A belt fastener of the type formed from a blank of metal having substantially uniform thickness by a progressive die arrangement. The fastener includes a generally flat upper plate, a generally flat lower plate, strap means joining the plates and an abutment finger extending from one of the plates for limiting insertion of a belt segment moved between the plates. The finger is offset with respect to the strap means and has a thickness less than that of the blank. The finger is engageable with the strap means of another belt fastener which other fastener functions to hold an adjacent belt segment.

Abstract: A hook keeper is provided to protect and reinforce belt lacings of the type having a plurality of hooks clenched in opposite ends of a belt, with the loop ends of the hooks meshed together and interconnected by a pin. The hook keeper has a rigid body with at least two side-by-side slots therethrough. The hook keeper is positioned between the connecting pin and an associated end of the belt, and preferably reinforces one of the two outermost hooks in the lacing. The selected outermost lacing hook is closely received in one of the keeper slots, and another one of the lacing hooks is closely received in the second keeper slot. Forces acting on the outermost hook are transmitted to and resisted at least partially by the second hook to improve the strength and longevity of the lacing.

Abstract: A hinge pin construction for connecting the free ends of a conveyor belt. The hinge pin includes a plurality of bushings arranged end to end and having aligned bores through each. A cable extends through the bores and is connected at opposite ends to a termination bushing. The bushings are free to rotate relative to the cable. This construction extends through aligned eyes in a mechanical splice connected to each of the free ends of the conveyor belt. A hinge pin tool is provided to assemble and disassemble the hinge pin.

Abstract: A seam for joining the ends of a fabric to form an endless belt which can be used for papermaking, is created by attaching a continuous coil to each fabric end, the loops of the coils being preformed so that when the loops are intermeshed each loop of one coil engages or creates an interference fit, with two loops of the opposite coil. To strengthen the seam, a pin is inserted in the tube formed by the intermeshed loops.The loops are joined by using a tool which has two channels through which the ends are brought together. The channels are formed between two plates attached to the ends of scissor arms.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for riveting two elements together utilizing upper and lower plate fastener portions wherein means are provided for securing the lower plate fastener portions in an aligned relationship with an underlying anvil base. Also provided are means for securing the upper plate portions aligned with the lower plate portions and the two elements therebetween while the rivets are driven.

Abstract: A connector strip for conveyor belts includes a plurality of preshaped inidual connector elements (1) which are held together by a wire (2) secured to the inside of a leg of each connector element (1). The wire has a wave form shape whereby the bendability of the connector is maintained.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for riveting two elements together utilizing upper and lower plate fastener portions wherein means are provided for securing the lower plate fastener portions in an aligned relationship with an underlying anvil base. Also provided are means for securing the upper plate portions aligned with the lower plate portions and the two elements therebetween while the rivets are driven.

Abstract: A plurality of belt fasteners are joined together by intermediate bridging portions which may break off and leave the adjacent belt fastener edges spaced from each other by the width of the bridging portions when the belt is in use. The preferred fasteners are plate fasteners joined together in a strip of these frangible bridge portions. Preferably, a pair of lines of weakness are formed by stamping parallel notches adjacent either edge of the plate fastener so that substantially all of the bridging material between adjacent fasteners may break off thereby leaving a sizeable gap between adjacent sides of adjacent fasteners.

Abstract: A drafting aid comprising a flat board, the board having two straight parallel edges and guide surfaces at the parallel edges. A flexible member passes about the board and over the guide means. The flexible member includes resilient tension members extending between the end edges thereof to form a taut member about the board.

Abstract: The belt-fastener is cut from sheet metal strip of substantially constant width and the U-shaped elbowed portion of the fastener which forms a hinge-knuckle is folded in two in the transverse direction. The two folded sides are applied against each other in a plane located at right angles to the general plane of the clamping tongues of the fastener and form a progressive junction with the edge of each tongue. The hinge-knuckles are thus endowed with enhanced mechanical strength and provided on each side with a free space for positioning the hinge-knuckles of the opposite row.

Abstract: A plate connector for joining the ends of a conveyor belt has a pair of cector legs adapted to be affixed to opposite sides of the end of the conveyor belt, and a pair of U-shaped eyes joining the connector legs and adapted to extend from the end of the belt for connection to a similar member affixed to the opposite end of the belt. The connector eyes, in the region through which coupling rods extend, have cross sections with straight base lines and triangular upper edges joining the side edges thereof. The appexes of the triangular cross section areas may be arcuate.