AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OP COP TUBES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Marland, of Southport, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE
OP COP TUBES."
Sealed the 7th October 1859; and dated the 11th April 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Marland at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th April 1859.
I, JOHN MARLAND, of Southport, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF COP TUBES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of cop
tubes. Heretofore cop tubes have been made of paper, and of woven and
other fabric, and other materials, cut with one straight edge and with a long
and acute angle at the other edge for the greater part of its length in one
direction, and with an acute angle, but less in length than the previous one
in the other direction; and when making such angularly cut material into
a cop tube, paste or other cement has been applied to the material after
the same has been cut; but difficulties have been found in making good cop
tubes under such circumstances. Now, my improvement consists in applying
the gum, glue, gutta percha, or other cement over the whole surface of the
paper or material, and in allowing it to set or dry before cutting, the paper

page_text: or material into the desired angular forms for making cop tubes, and after the
paper or material has been cut into proper forms in applying a fluid solvent or
heat, or both, in order to render the cement adhesive, as the material is wound
around a suitable spindle or mandril.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Marland in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th October 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MARLAND, of Southport, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Marland, Her special licence that I, the said John
Marland, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said John Marland, 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
AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COP TUBES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Marland my executors or admi-
nistrators, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Marland, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of cop
tubes. Heretofore cop tubes have been made of paper and of woven and
other fabric, and other materials, cut with one straight edge, and with a long
and acute angle at the other edge for the greater part of its length in one
direction, and with an acute angle, but less in length than the previous.

page_text: one in the other direction; and when making such angularly-cut material
into a cop tube, paste or other cement has been applied to the material
after the same has been cut; but difficulties have been found in making
good. cop tubes under such circumstances. Now, my improvement consists
in applying the gum, glue, gutta percha, or other cement over the whole
surface of the paper or material, and in allowing it to set or dry before
cutting the paper or material into the desired angular forms for making cop
tubes, and after the paper or material has been cut into proper forms in
applying a fluid solvent or heat, or both, in order to render the cement
adhesive, as the material is wound around a suitable spindle or mandril.
It will only be desirable further to add that the cement used is to be spread
evenly all over the paper or material used, in a similar manner to that resorted
to in coating the backs of adhesive stamps or otherwise, this cement being
dried before the paper or fabric is cut into the proper form of strips for making
cop tubes, and then when making cop tubes, either the cemented surface is to
be moistened with a solvent of the cement, or heat is to be applied where the
cement used is such as to require heat to melt it.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Marland, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
JOHN MARLAND.
(L.S.)