IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ADHESIVE PLASTER
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Nickels, of 13, Albany Road, in
the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ADHESIVE PLASTER."
Scaled the 17th January 1853, and dated the 19th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Nickels
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his l'etition,
on the 19th November 1852.
I, BENJAMIN NICKELS, of 13, Albany Road, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ADHESIVE PLASTER" to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object the application of elastic fubrics,
such as are made in warp, stocking, and other machinery, and will
stretch and assume the shape of the parts to be covered, and the
Invention consists of spreading over or combining with such fabrics
the proper adhesive and other materials employed for such purposes."

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Benjamin Nickels in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 19th May 1853.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
BENJAMIN NICKELS, of 13, Albany Road, in the County of Surrey,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, 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 Benjamin Nickels, Her
special licence that I, the said Benjamin Nickels, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin
Nickels, 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 ADHESIVE
PLASTERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Benjamin Nickels, by an instrument in writing, under my hand and
scal, 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 Benjamin Nickels, 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): -
This Invention has for its object the application of clastic fabrics,
such as are made in warp, stocking, and other machinery and will
stretch and assume the shape of the parts to be covered; and the
Invention consists in spreading over or combining with such fubrics
the proper adhesive and other materials employed for such purposes.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood

page_text: and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means
pursued by me heretofore in the manufacture of adhesive plasters
for medical and surgical purposes.
It has been usual to spread the adhesive and other matters on
to one or both sides (generally on one side only), on woven
fabrics and paper, which not being elastic or capable of stretch-
ing, will not conveniently (without notching or cutting) take
the form or contour of the part on to which it is desired to
apply a plaster. And my Invention has expressly for its object
the employment in the manufacture of adhesive plasters for
medical and surgical purposes, of fabrics which, being clastic by
reason of their mode of manufacture, will readily stretch to, and
when held by the adhesiveness of its surface, retain, the contour or
form of the part to which a plaster is applied. For this purpose, I
employ, by preference, plain fabrics made in warp lace machines,
but other loop or knit fabrics may be used, or a fabric made of fleece
or bats of fibres caused to adhere together by being impregnated
with the medical and adhesive matter desired to be used in making
up a plaster. I cause such looped, or knit, or fleeced fabrics to be
spread over or impregnated with like materials to those heretofore
employed when non-clastic woven fabrics, or paper, or leather, have
been used in preparing adhesive plasters for medical and surgical
purposes, and I would state that the Invention consists of combining
the proper adhesive and other matters with elastic fabrics, such as
above described in manufacturing adhesive plasters.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Nickels, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this nineteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Witness,
H. W. CARPMAEL.
BENJAMIN NICKELS. (L.S.)