1870 J. S. Wright 204 List of manufactures in Chicago, May 1867...Machine belting..1.
1884 A. Daniell 162 There is a very interesting and familiar case in which friction serves as a means for the transmission of energy—that is, transmission by machine-belting.
1993 Mar. 106/1 His father diligently expanded the family's industrial machine-belting empire.