Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted 23rd Mar, 1889
I, ROBERT WOODS, of Lidgett Cottage, Garforth, in the County of York, Cashier
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows.:―
An elastic bolt, and nut or washer, made entirely or in part of India Rubber or
other elastic substance. The bolt is passed through suitable holes in the articles or
materials to be fastened together, and upon the end of the bolt, which projects, a nut
or washer is placed, and is held in position by friction or by circular or spiral corru-
gations upon the bolt only, or upon the bolt and the nut or washer.

page_text: Means for Fastening together Papers, Pamphlets, Books, Cloth,
and the like.
I, ROBERT WOODS of Lidgett Cottage, Garforth in the County of York, Cashier,
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 :-
My Invention has for its object an improved method of fastening together papers,
pamphlets, books, cloth, and the like, so that the margins may be easily seen without
removing the fastening, and yet the articles may remain securely bound together;
and further that any seperate, paper, pamphlet, or other article so bound may be
readily removed when required.
My Invention consists of an elastic bolt made entirely or in part of India Rubber,
woodite, or other elastic substance, and a disc, nut, or washer, which may be made
of India Rubber or other suitable material, not necessarily elastic, as for instance
bone, ivory, or metal.
The articles or materials to be fastened together having been punched with a hole
or holes, suitable to the size and number of bolts to be used (one will frequently be
sufficient, and more than two will scarcely ever be required) a bolt is passed through
each hole and upon the projecting point the disc, nut, or washer is placed, and the
hole in same being smaller than the diameter or section of the bolt, it is held securely
in position by frictional resistance. It will be evident that when two or more bolts
are used the holes in the several articles or materials must be in exactly corresponding
positions.
The drawings hereunto annexed, which I will presently describe, show a variety of
forms in which I bave manufactured the said bolts, and in addition they may be made
with circular or spiral corrugations upon the shank of the bolt, or they may be made
of wire, the necessary elasticity being secured by making the shank in the form of a
spiral spring.
DESCRIPTION OF MOD

page_text: Figure 5. shows the circular disc, nut, or washer, and Figure 6 one of rectangular
form. As already stated, the hole in the disc, nut, or washer must in all cases be
smaller than the section of the bolt for which it is intended.
The sizes may be the same as on the Drawings or of any convenient size.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
The Elastic bolt with disc, nut, or washer, substantially as described and illustrated,
for fastening together papers, pamphlets, books, cloth, and the like; and more
especially I claim the holding upon the bolt by frictional resistance, the disc, nut, or
washer for the purposes herein specified.