Show PATENT GRANTED ON GOODRICH TYPE V BELT one of the noteworthy developments in mechanical drives of recent years has been the endless belt of the side driving type made of vulcanized rubber and fabric A patent has recently been granted the B F goodrich company of akron ohio covering the construction and method of manufacturing this type of belt having its beginning in automobile fan drives the application of such belts has been rapidly to include various domestic arid and industrial purposes such as washing and refrigerating machines loom drives and others too numerous to mention while eng engineers inders i have long recognized an inherent superiority in the wedging grip of a V drive over the flat belt type it was not so easy to devise a durable belt for this service which could be sold at area a reasonable price apparently the problem has now been definitely solved progress in rubberized fabric side driving belts has been marked barked by several distinct steps the first of which was taken by the B F goodrich company when in 1912 they brought 2 out an endless vulcanized V belt of all cord and rubber construction later marketed under the name sil ver town this belt had an inextensible cabled core and a cover of spirally y wound cord strands it gave excellent service arvice but was somewhat expensive to make m ake goodrich also so patented in 1918 a flat belt with a continuous wound tord cord center and a bias fabric cover in 1921 the B F goodrich company compan y brought out a rolled 0 vulcanized fabric belt with a reinforcing cord core ow being sold under Farra noid and Long life brands patent patent no was issued to the goodrich com company pany Pece december niber 14 1926 on an application filed in 1921 cover ing 1 g the construction and method of making these rolled belts ts both in the round and V sections either with or with out t a reinforcing core it is reported that durkee atwood as a license cense from goodrich and these cyp types es of belts ire are be ing by both companies |