IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UNITED ADHESIVE BOOK HEAD- BAND AND REGISTER RIBBONS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bowden, Bookbinder, of No. 1, Little Queen
Street, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UNITED ADHESIVE BOOK HEAD-
BAND AND REGISTER RIBBONS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bowden at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th January 1855.
I, GEORGE BOWDEN, Bookbinder, of No. 1, Little Queen Street, High
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UNITED ADHESIVE
BOOK HEAD-BAND AND REGISTER RIBBONS" to be as follows:-
By the under-mentioned process of manufactory is the nearest approach to
the hand-worked book head-band now in use in this or any other country, and
can be manufactured of all colors, patterns, and sizes.
Firstly, lengths of cord, braid, tape, vellum, leather, webbing, or any other
kind of material being fixed to a spinning machine, silk, thread, cotten, or
worsted of any color is then wound or spun round the cord, braid, tape,
vellum, leather, webbing, or any other kind of material to any pattern required.

page_text: This forms the first portion of the book head-band when taken from the
spinning machine.
Secondly, calico, linen, or any other kind of material is then cut into requisito
lengths of any required width or breadth.
Thirdly, consists of silk or other ribbons, cut into sizes varying in lengths,
and being fixed to the calico, or any other kind of material (at convenient
distances, as required,) by the fourth or finishing process.
Fourthly, the finishing process. A length of the first placed upon the surface
of the top or bottom of the second, as before named, is then sewn together,
the stitch forming a chain or bead, and is put on the edge of the surface of the
first portion at the same operation of sewing the first, second, and third
portions together. By applying the patent sewing machines worked on the
second and third portions forms a head-band by themselves for small books,
patterns being formed by the colors of the silk on the wheels of the machine.
Another head-band is formed by simply sewing webbing and braid or binding
(by the machine or hand) of any size and color, to the second and third
portions, as described..
Lastly, that when the book head-band is quite complete, and before being
cut into pieces the required lengths for the thickness of the books, to prevent
it unravelling or coming away from the calico or any other kind of material,
gum, paste, glue, or any other cementing body is laid between the thread or
other material and the calico or other material, which makes it adhesive at
the same time, so that by simply wetting the back of the book, the head-band
will adhere to it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Bowden in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th July 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BOWDEN, Bookbinder, of No. 1, Little Queen Street, Holborn, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord.
One thousand eight hundred and fifty 5, in the 18th year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Bowden, Her special licence that I, the said George Bowden, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George

page_text: Bowden, 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 UNITED ADHEISIVE BOOK HEAD-BAND AND REGISTER
RIBBONS," (upon the condition, amongst others) that I; the said George
Bowden, 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 George Bowden, 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 state-
ment:-
Firstly, lengths of cord, braid, tape, vellum, leather webbing, or any other
kind of material being fixed to a spinning machine, silk, thread, cotton, or
worsted of any color is then wound or spun round the cord, braid, tape,
vellum, leather, webbing, or any other kind of material to any pattern required.
This forms the first portion of the book head-band when taken from the
spinning machine.
Secondly, calico, linen, or any other kind of material is then cut into requisite
lengths of any required width or breadth.
Thirdly, consists of silk or any other ribbons cut into sizes varying in lengths,
and being fixed to the calico or any other kind of material (at convenient
distances, as required,) by the fourth or finishing process.
Fourthly, the finishing process. A length of the first placed upon the surface
of the top or bottom of the second, as before named, is then sewn together,
the stitch forming a chain or bead, and is put on the edge of the surface of the
first portion, and the same operation of sewing the first, second, and third
portions together. By applying the patent sewing machines worked on the
second and third portions forms a head-band by themselves for small books,
patterns being formed by the colors of the silk on the wheels of the machine.
Another head-band is formed by simply sewing webbing and braid or binding,
by the machine or hand, of any size and color, to the second and third
portions, as described.
Lastly, that when the book head-band is quite complete, and before being
cut into pieces the required lengths for the thickness of the books, to prevent it

page_text: unravelling or coming away from the calico or any other kind of material, gum,
paste, glue, or any other cementing body is laid between the thread or other
material and the calico or other material, which makes it adhesive at the
same time, so that by simply. wetting the back of. the book, the head-band will
adhere to it.
This being the first application of the sewing machines for the manufacture
of book head-band by this process, the stitch when sewn on printed or woven
material of any kind is a book head-band with or without any stiffening or
register ribbons, or being adhesive."
As witness whereof; I, the said George Bowden, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of July, Eighteen hundred and