Leather Drive Belt Tools:
Use:
These tools are used to make or repair leather drive belts used to power machinery. Most large machinery drive belts were flat. Smaller drive belts for things like sewing machines tended to be round.
Toolmaker: Sargent & Co.
Inventor: William A. Bernard
- Tool used to simultaneously trim a round leather belt to length and punch a hole for a wire splice.
- Tool is marked "SARGENT & CO. NEW HAVEN, CONN. MADE IN U.S.A." stamped on handle around the main pin "BERNARD" is stamped into the outside of both handles.
- I have found both patents below, held by William A. Bernard of New Haven, Connecticut.
- May 6, 1890, U.S. Patent No. 427220, for a parrallel jaw plier.
- December 27, 1892, U.S. Patent No. 488785, for leather belt splicing pliers, origionally assigned to the William Schollhorn Company of New Haven, Connecticut.
Toolmaker: Stanley Rule and Level Co.
- Stanley No. 11 belt makers plane.
- The Stanley No. 11 was manufactured between 1869 and 1943. The older versions are 5-3/4" long and the newer (1909 and later) are 5-15/16" long.
- Descriptions of this tool can be found in any Stanley Rule and Level plane collectors' book. This tool was most likely produced some time between 1909 to 1943.
- A description of the making of leather flat drive belts may be found in the "Machinery's Handbook, Seventeenth Edition" pages 993-950.
