IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TAPE PLAISTERS OR BANDAGES, AND IN MOUNTING THE same upon REELS OR HOLDERS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Henry Smith, Doctor of Medicine,
of Lewisham, in the County of Kent, for the Invention of " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TAPE PLAISTERS OR BANDAGES, AND IN
MOUNTING THE same upon REELS OR HOLDERS."
Sealed the 10th July 1874, and dated the 16th January 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Henry
Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th January 1874.
I, FREDERICK HENRY SMITH, Doctor of Medicine, of Lewisham, in
the County of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TAPE PLAISTERS OR BANDAGES,
AND IN MOUNTING THE SAME UPON REELS OR HOLDERS," to be as follows:-
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This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
adhesive plaister for surgical purposes whereby it is rendered soft and
pliable, so as to admit of its being cut (by suitable mechanism) into

page_text: long strips or tapes of various widths, which can be wound upon reels
or holders in accordance with my Invention for convenience in use, and
the plaister thus prepared and mounted will not be injured by keeping in
any climate.
For this purpose I prepare a composition consisting of the following
materials, the proportions of which may however be varied according to
the temperature to which the plaister made therefrom is likely to be
subjected, in order to prevent the surface as it is unwound from the
reel from cracking, peeling, or breaking off when exposed to compara-
tively low temperatures:-
These materials prepared as is well understood in the proparation of
similar compounds used for the manufacture of adhesive plaister are
spread upon the surface of calico, linen, silk, leather, or other suitable
materials, which are afterwards cut up into strips or tapes, and then
wound upon reels or holders (by preference of cylindrical form) made
of wood, metal, or other suitable materials in accordance with my
Invention.
I prefer to form the ends of the reels hollow, and to wind the tapes of
plaister thereon with the prepared or adhesive surface outwards, by
which arrangement they can be conveniently held by the user when in
the act of unwinding and applying the plaister or bandage to the limb of
a patient.
The addition of olive or other suitable oil to the composition is the
means by which the adhesive plaister is rendered soft, limp, and pliable,
being thereby preserved and prevented from peeling, cracking, and
breaking off in any climate, as would be the case with plaister as.
ordinarily prepared.

page_text: DE VIFICATION pursuance of the conditions of the Jucts
filed by the said Frederick Henry Smith in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th July 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
HENRY SMITH, Doctor of Medicine, of Lewisham, in the County of
Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Frederick Henry Smith,
Her special license that I, the said Frederick Henry Smith, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Frederick Henry Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TAPE PLAISTERS OR
BANDAGES, AND IN MOUNTING THE SAME UPON REELS OR HOLDERS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Henry Smith, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immedi.
ately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Henry Smith, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
adhesive plaister for surgical purposes, whereby it is rendered soft and
pliable, so as to admit of its being cut (by suitable mechanism) into
long strips or tapes of various widths, which can be wound upon reels

page_text: or holders, in accordance with my Invention, for convenience in use, and
the plaister thus prepared and mounted will not be injured by keeping in
any climate.
For this purpose I prepare a composition consisting of the following
materials, the proportions of which may however be varied according to
the temperature to which the plaister made therefrom is likely to be
subjected in order to prevent the surface as it is unwound from the reel
from cracking, peeling, or breaking off when exposed to comparatively
low temperatures ·

page_text: And, Secondly. I claim the mounting of tape plaisters or bandages
upon reels or holders, substantially in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Henry Smith, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.