IM- PROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS SUITABLE FOR DOOR CLOSERS, BLIND PULLEYS, BRACES, MATTRESSES, STIRRUP LEATHERS, PAPER AND POCKET BANDS, AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Gibson Bussey, of Muscum Works, Ryo Lane,
Peckham, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer, for the Invention of " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS SUITABLE FOR DOOR CLOSERS, BLIND PULLEYS, BRACES,
MATTRESSES, STIRRUP LEATHERS, PAPER AND POCKET BANDS, AND OTHER
USEFUL PURPOSES."
Sealed the 18th July 1879, and dated the 22nd January 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Gibson Bussey at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd January 1879.
GEORGE GIBSON BUSSEY, of Museum Works, Rye Lane, Peckham, in the County
of Surrey, Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS SUITABLE FOR DOOR
CLOSERS, BLIND PULLEYS, BRACES, MATTRESSES, STIRRUP LEATHERS, PAPER AND
POCKET BANDS, AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
This Invention consists of improvements in springs suitable for door closers,
blind pulleys, braces, mattresses, stirrup leathers, paper and pocket bands, and for
nearly every purpose to which tension springs can be applied.
This improvement consist in using a spiral spring of any shape, size, and strength
required with the coils set well apart; through the inside of these coils, two straps,
bands, webs, or cords are made to pass, one end of each strap being fastened to the
last coil of the spring at each end, and the straps being pulled in opposite directions,
a very effective and cheap tension spring is produced, resulting from the effort of
the spiral spring to recover its normal expanded state.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Gibson Bussey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
July 1879.
GEORGE GIBSON BUSSEY, of Museum Works, Rye Lane, Peckham, in the County
of Surrey, Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS SUITABLE FOR DOOR
CLOSERS, BLIND PULLEYS, BRACES, MATTRESSES, STIRRUP LEATHERS, PAPER AND
POCKET BANDS, AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
This Invention consists of improvements in springs suitable for door closers,
blind pulleys, braces, and chest-expanders, mattrasses, seats for chairs and couches,
stirrup leathers, paper and pocket book bands, weighing machines, and nearly every
purpose to which tension springs can be applied.
The improvements consist in using a spiral spring of any shape, size, and strength
required, with the coils set well apart; through the inside of these coils two straps,
bands, webs, or cords are made to pass, one end of each strap, band, web, or cord
being fastened to the last coil of the spring at each end. It is now clear that if the
straps are pulled in opposite directions a very effective and cheap tension spring is
produced, resulting from the effort of the spiral spring to recover its normal
expanded state. Such springs are much more constant and durable than india
rubber, also less likely to break, and less expensive than any other springs. The
number of coils in each spring, the distance apart, the substance of the wire, depends
entirely on the strength required and the purpose to which the spring is applied,
but in all cases it should be made of the best spring steel properly hardened and
tempered.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which the
same is performed and carried into effect, I declare that what I claim and desire to
be secured to me is,―
The adaptation of spiral springs in combination with straps, bands, webs, or
cords, as and for the purposes, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Gibson Bussey, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
CRORCE CIRSON RIISSEY
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GEORGE GIBSON BUSSEY. (10)