A New Method of Making Wheels, Discs, Washers, Adapters for Tubes, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1891-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Method of Making Wheels, Discs, Washers, Adapters for
Tubes, and the like.
I, WILLIAM GAGE TWEEDY of 8 Athenæum Terrace Plymouth Devonshire
B.A. Cambridge & Private Tutor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
I take a long strip of paper, cloth, wood-shaving or other flexible material (either
plain, or prepared, or coated with any material) of uniform width and thickness.
I wind this evenly with suitable tension on a mandrel, keeping the ends of the
cylinder so formed flat. When all the strip is wound, its outer end is secured
while the ends of the cylinder or roll are coated with a suitable cement by which a
layer of paper, cloth, &c. is made to adhere, thus connecting the layers of the strip
together by the edges and preventing them from unwinding. I propose to use
these discs as adapters for tubes, washers for sockets, & as grindstones, emery
wheels, polishing buffs and for other purposes in the arts.
Dated this 15th day of September 1890.
;
WILLIAM GAGE TWEEDY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Method of Making Wheels, Discs, Washers, Adapters for
Tubes, and the like.
I, WILLIAM GAGE TWEEDY of 8 Athenæum Terrace Plymouth, in the County of
Devon Tutor do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
(1) To make. adapters by which a plug or a tube may be made to fit into a socket,
or into another tube, I take strips or sheets of paper, cloth &c. of suitable size,
either as supplied by the makers, or treated with oil, tar, or other liquid that will
not cement the successive layers strongly together, or I take a compound sheet
formed by laying together two or more sheets of different materials, and I wind
this on a mandrel of uniform circular or other section with as much tension as will
make the roll solid. I then secure temporarily the end of the sheet from unwinding,
by putting ties or bands round the roll, and cut the ends of the roll flat and per-
pendicular to the axis. I then coat these flat surfaces with glue or other suitable
adhesive substance, and apply on this a disc of paper, felt &c. so as to secure the
edges of the rolled material together. I then cut the roll perpendicular to the axis
into sections of any convenient thickness, and after removing them from the mandrel
I coat and cover the cut surfaces as before described. I thus obtain discs or coils
with circular or other shaped holes in the centres, and by unwinding the coil from
the inside I can enlarge the hole to fit the outside of a given plug or tube, and by
unwinding it from the outside I can reduce the size of the coil so as to fit inside
a given socket or tube, the coating on the flat faces preventing spontaneous
unwinding.
Adapters made in this way are suitable for fitting caps and shutters on the hoods
of photographic lenses, for fitting stoppers in the necks of pickle jars, for making
expansion joints for water pipes, and the like.
(2) By winding as described in (1) emery-cloth, glass-paper and similar abrading
and polishing materials, with the abrading surface outside; coating the ends with
an adhesive substance, and using paper felt, emery-paper &c. to cover them I make

page_text: cylinders, discs, or wheels suitable for use as emery-wheels, grindstones, polishing buffs
and the like, when mounted on spindles running in the same direction as the mandrel
on which they were wound.
(3) By removing the mandrel from rolls of
paper.
(b) emery cloth, glass paper &c.
felt, cloth &c.
and applying pressure to two or more sides of the roll, I convert the roll into a
prism not circular in section and having two or more flat sides, and by coating and
covering the ends and cutting sections as in (1) I obtain blocks
(a) of paper, suitable for sketching-blocks, blotting pads and the like.
(b) of emery-cloth &c. suitable for hand-tools for smoothing surfaces, and for
sharpening edges and points.
(c) of felt, cloth &c. suitable for use by French-polishers and other workmen
who use rubbers or dabbers.
(4) In (2) and (3) it is obvious that when the outer layer of the wheel disc or
block has been used up, it can be easily cut off, and the fresh surface beneath used
in turn till the whole of the material is expended.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
I. The method of making in the said manner, adapters for tubes and the like.
II. The method of making in the said manner, cylinders, discs, and wheels, to be
run on spindles for abrading and polishing.
III. The method of making blocks of paper of various kinds in the manner
described in (3) (a).
IV. The method of making blocks of emery-cloth and the like, (to be used in
the hand for abrading and polishing) in the manner described in (3) (b).
V. The method of making blocks of felt and the like, (to be used in the hand for
rubbing, dabbing &c.) in the manner described in (3) (c).
Dated this 13th day of June 1891.
WILLIAM GAGE TWEEDY,
Applicant.