Cartridge Belt: Wide Leather Belt With a Woven Strip Forming the Loops (Boy Mechanic, 1915)

"Procure a leather belt, about 2-1/2 in. wide and long enough to reach about the waist, also a piece of leather, 1 in. wide and twice as long as the belt."

Cut a leather belt about 2-1/2 in wide and long enough to go round the waist, and a strip 1 in wide and twice as long as the belt. Fix a buckle to one end of the belt and rivet one end of the strip to the belt near the buckle.

Cut two slits in the belt, a cartridge's diameter apart. Pass the strip through one slit and back through the other to make a loop. About 1/4 in further on, cut two more slits and form the next loop the same way, and so on along the whole belt.

Rivet the end of the strip to the belt, or take it into the buckle: then the strip can be drawn up to fit cartridges of different sizes. Punch the holes for the buckle tongue.

From "How to Make a Cartridge Belt" by Robert Pound, Lavina, Mont., in **The Boy Mechanic, Book 2**, Popular Mechanics, 1915 (Project Gutenberg 44585; checked on the archive.org scan boymechanicbook200chic2, p. 55). He gives no slit length and no cartridge size; the slit spacing follows whatever cartridge the belt is for. The tools and metric figures are ours.