IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TABLES, SOFAS, BEDSTEADS, STANDS, CHAIRS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, AND THE FRAMES AND BODIES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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 TABLES, SOFAS, BEDSTEADS, STANDS, CHAIRS, AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, AND THE FRAMES AND BODIES OF
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS."-A communication.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Moses Poole at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd 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 "In-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TABLES, SOPAS, BEDSTEADS, STANDS,
CHAIRS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, AND THE FRAMES AND BODIES
or MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention is a communication from America on behalf of
Mr. Goodyear, the Inventor, and consists of employing in such manu-

page_text: factures of a hard substance produced by subjecting compositions of
india-rubber and sulphur, with or without other materials, to a high
degree of heat, till the desired result is obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Moses Poole in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 80th 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 Second 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, 'excrcise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF TABLES, SOPAS, BEDSTEADS, STANDS, CHAIRS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
OF FURNITURE, AND THE FRAMES AND BODIES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Moses Poole,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, should par-
ticularly 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 Scal 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 a communication from America in behalf of
Mr. Goodyear, the Inventor, and consists of employing in such manu-
factures of a hard substance produced by subjecting compositions of
india-rubber and sulphur, with or without other materials, to a high
degree of heat, till the desired result is obtained. And in order that the
Invention may be most fully understood, and readily carried into practice,
I will proceed to describe the means pursued by the inventor. India-
rubber or sulphur, with or without other materials, are to be combined
and blended together by masticating or kneading, as is well understood
by manufacturers of india-rubber. This compound alone may be used,
or various other articles may be combined with the india-rubber and
sulphur, such as gum shallac, gutta percha, also coal tar, tar or pitch
deprived of water by heat, also white lead, oxide of zinc, and other
coloring matters may also be employed and ground or masticated there-
with, and even other matters may be used; but the above are believed
to interfero less with the valuable properties of the compound of india-
rubber and sulphur than any other material; and although sulphur is
preferred for the purpose, other matters containing sulphur or giving off
like products of sulphur when heated may be substituted, therefor in
combining these matters about two parts by weight of india-rubber to
one part by weight of sulphur are used.
In constructing the articles above mentioned, when the furniture is
made of iron, it is necessary to use the sheets of composition before being
heated. The articles, either in parts or in whole, are wound and covered
over in like manner to gun barrels and other articles described in the
Specification of another Patent granted to me in behalf of the said
Mr. Goodyear. They are then heated in the usual manner in contact
with impalpable talc or soap stone, and not in moulds. Many articles
of furniture and many parts of articles may be made wholly of the com-
pound being made hollow or partly hollow, in form of shells, and filled
in with wood, or strengthened in the interior by braces of iron; when
the furniture is made of wood in the ordinary way of making cabinet
work of wood covered with veneer, the sheets of veneer made of the
compound, and coated on the underside with fibre or fabric, are first
heated, and are afterwards applied to any article of furniture in the

page_text: same way that vencers are applied with glue to ordinary cabinet ware.
In some cases chairs and other articles of furniture may be advan-
tageously made in parts with tenants and mortices of the same material,
or of iron inserted in the material before the parts are heated, by which
means the parts may be subsequently framed together and keyed, or
otherwise fastened after they are heated. In applying the necessary
heat it should be done gradually, raising the heat to about 230° of
Fahrenheit in half an hour, then retaining that degree of heat for about
one and a half hours, then raising it by degrees for the remainder of six
hours up to about 295° to 305°; but where much foreign matter is in
the compound tho heat may be raised more quickly.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
is, the application of the hard substances produced from india-rubber and
sulphur by heat to the manufacture of tables, sofas, bedsteads, stands,
chairs, and other articles of furniture, and bodies of musical instruments.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
B. GODEY.
MOSES POOLE. (L.S.)