Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — Rejuvenated Belting. [ARTICLE]

Rejuvenated Belting.

New York Sun. . ' : ■ By means of ingeniously arranged apparatus the strength of old belting is now renewed or augmented to such a degree as greatly to lengthen its service. To accomplish this, twp large, hollow copper cylinders are provided, and into these steam is admitted, so that they are always heated. In a tank is a solution composed of beeswax, borax, glue, starch, and molasses; prepared in equal quantities, this solution being in liquid form; and there are guide rollers, through which runs the leather belting which is in process of treatment. The belt to be operated upon is started into the machine at a point where it can enter the tank, and while passing through the latter the leather receives an application of the solution; the press rollers immediately squeeze the compound into the fibre of the leather, and then the heat from, the cylinders, over which the belting is being drawn, dries the compound. AU the rollers and cylinders rest in the bearings, As represented, the application of this compound to the belt, and immediately drying is to add strength to the fibre of the leather in a remarkable degree.