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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2549, 29 June 1895, Page 2

A BOON TO BELT-WORKERS. Those who hare charge of machinery arc aware that belts are frequently liable to get out of order and give way tit the joint, and that the entire' running gear has then to be stopped while the defective belt is repaired. This involves the loss of a certain amount of time which, needless to say. represents a certain amount of money. Hitherto repairs to belting have been effected by means of lacea or rivets, but the results have bosn so partially satisfactory that the attention of machinists and belt-owners has been directed to some more efficacious mode of splicing. It has been reserved for Mr 11. B. Gower, of Victoria, a practical engineer, to discover a substance by which durable splices in belting can bo effected at a groat saving. The material is a kind of cement, the components of which are,of course, known only to the proprietor. The patentee has given the substance a very suggestive name, “ Death Grip Cement.” We have inspected several pieces of belting which have been spliced by Mr Gower's process, and even the unpractised eye marks the. firmness of the junction and the effectiveness of the joining agency. The tenacity of the cement is marvellous. As is well known rivets in fast running bolts are very apt to part, and the belt work unevenly or become useless; besides which continual repairing by rivets or laces is sure to wear out the material. All this is saved by the application of Mr Gower’s cement. The ends of the broken belt are pared to equal thickness, and made to overlap one another, and form to* gether a thickness equal to that of the main body of the belt, A coating of the cement warmed is spread on the pared ends, which are then cramped together, and in a very short time, half an hour, tho bait is ready to resume running. Those in ' charge of belting who have tried this remarkable cement are delighted with it, and certainly the proofs we have seen of its efficacy leave no room to doubt that Mr Gower’s process is one of the most remarkable in its department of the present day. Mr Gower is now visiting Wellington, whore help disposing of his preparation, and instructing persons in the use of it. J. G. Mitchell, agent, care ofc Dwau Bros.,Willis street, Wellington.—Advt.