Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 18, 2025
He has also introduced improved methods for putting the links together. For more than twenty years after Mr. Roullier's visit, nothing was done with leather link belting in this country. In 1882, however, Mr. N.W. Hall, of Newark, N.J., patented a link belt, composed of leather and steel links.
These links had two small holes at equal distances apart, and were joined with iron bolts, which were riveted at the ends, thus making a perfectly flat surface, and in that way forming a belt entirely of leather links. Mr. Roullier's idea was to economize; he therefore utilized the material left over from the manufacture of flat belting.
He perfected his belt and came to this country in 1862, when he patented the article here and tried to introduce it. At first it produced quite a sensation, and many tests were made, but it was soon found that Roullier's belts were not suited to running our swift motion machinery, and they were therefore abandoned as impracticable. Mr.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking