IMPROVEMENTS IN, THE MANUFACTURE OF PAILS, TUBS, BATHS, BUCKETS, MEASURES, DRINKING AND OTHER VESSELS, BASINS, PITCHERS AND JUGS, BY THE APPLICATION OF A MATERIAL NOT HITHERTO USED IN SUCH MANUFACTURES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Moses Poole, of Serle Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN, THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAILS, TUBS, BATHS, BUCKETS, MEASURES, DRINKING
AND OTHER VESSELS, BASINS, PITCHERS AND JUGS, BY THE APPLICATION
OF A MATERIAL NOT HITHERTO USED IN SUCH MANUFACTURES."
Sealed the 8th January 1853, and dated the 1st October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Moses Poole at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his petition, on the
1st October 1852.
I, MOSES POOLE, of Serle Street, in the County of Middlesex, Gen-
tleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAILS, TUBS, BATHS, BUCKETS, MEASURES,
DRINKING AND OTHER VESSELS, BASINS, PITCHERS AND JUGS, BY THE
APPLICATION OF A MATERIAL NOT HITHERTO USED IN SUCH MANUFACTURES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention is communicated from America, on behalf of
Mr. Goodyear, the Inventor, and consists of making such articles of
India-rubber combined with sulphur, with or without other material,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Moses Poole, in the Great Seal Patent Office, on
the 30th March 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
MOSES POOLE, of Serle Street, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the First day of October in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the sixteenth year
of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Moses Poole, Her special licence that I, the said
Moses Poole, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Moses Poole, 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 PAILS,
TUBS, BATHS, BUCKETS, MEASURES, DRINKING AND OTHER VESSELS, BASINS,
PITCHERS AND JUGS, BY THE APPLICATION OF A MATERIAL NOT HITHERTO USED
IN SUCH, MANUFACTURES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Moses Poole, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Moses Poole, 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):

page_text: This Invention is communicated from America, in behalf of
Mr. Goodyear, the Inventor, and consists of making such articles of
India-rubber combined with sulphur, with or without other, materials,
and then subjecting them to a high degree of heat, till the materials
are converted; and for the purpose of making the lighter articles above
mentioned it is preferred that the composition should simply consist
of India-rubber and sulphur, as other materials, except they be colouring
matters, only tend to injure the composition for such finer purposes, būt
for the larger and commoner articles above mentioned other matters
may be mixed therewith, such as gum lac, gutta percha, also.coal tar
or pitch deprived of water by heat, and white lead, oxide of zinc, and
other colouring matters, and even other matters may be used, but the
above are preferred; and the composition is made up of two-parts by
weight of India-rubber to one of sulphur; and in making the articles above
mentioned the composition is made into sheets, and suitable sheet
metal moulds are used for the purpose, which are to be lined with the
sheets, taking care that the edges are well brought together, and in order
that the composition may retain its form within the mould, sand or other
fine heavy material is to be filled in. The moulds, with the articles
therein, are then to be heated (to convert the compounded materials into
a hard substance); for this purpose the heat should be raised gradually,
say up to about 230° of Fh' in half an hour; this temperature is
to be kept up for about one and a half hours, then the heat is to be
increased gradually during the remainder of six hours up to 295° to
305° of Fh; where the compound contains much foreign matter
the heat may be raised more quickly. I would remark that although
sulphur is best to be used, yet matters containing and giving off sulphur
products by heat may be substituted. Having thus described the nature
of the Invention, and the manner of performing the same, I would
have it understood that I do not claim generally to mould articles of the
hard substance above described, as other articles have been moulded in
like manner, and the same are claimed in the Specifications of other
Letters Patent granted to me in behalf of the said Mr. Goodyear; and
it may be stated that in many large articles it is desirable, in place of
the composition only, to employ the composition between surfaces of

page_text: woven fabric; and in order to give strength and stiffness to the upper or
other parts, hoops of metal may with advantage be applied, in which
cases such hoops are to be covered over with the substance and incor-
porated therein, so as to form one with the vessel to which such hoop
or hoops may be applied. What I claim as the present Invention is the
application of the compound substance and process of moulding herein
described in the manufacture of pails, tubs, baths, buckets, measures,
drinking and other vessels, basins, pitchers, and jugs.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March in the
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
year
MOSES POOLE. (L.S.)
Witness, B. GOBEY.