IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC BANDS." SP
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Coles,, of Gresham Street West, in the
City of London, Merchant, and James Archibald Jaques, Chemist,
and John Americus Fanshawe, Engineer, both of Tottenham, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC BANDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Coles, James
Archibald Jaques, and John Americus Fanshawe at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 20th April.
1868.
We, GEORGE COLES, of Gresham Street West, in the City of London,
Merchant, and JAMES ARCHIBALD JAQUES, Chemist, and JOHN AMERICUS
FANSHAWE, Engineer, both of Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC BANDS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Elastic Bands"
consists in embossing the faces of the bands and rounding the edges,.

page_text: so that not only may the appearance of the bands be improved but their
strength and durability increased.
In carrying out the Invention, supposing cylindrical bands be intended
to be produced, the strips of rubber to form the bands are laid out flat
between the embossing plates and submitted to pressure. The plates
are made of metal and are very thin, and any convenient number of
them may be used in combination. When the strips of rubber have
been embossed their ends may be joined together in the ordinary manner
so as to form rings. When the elastic bands are made in the form of
disc rings these latter may be strung on a spindle with metal embossing
washers between them, and when a convenient number are placed
thereon and screwed up tightly they may be vulcanized in the ordinary
manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Coles, James Archibald Jaques, and John
Americus Fanshawe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
COLES, of Gresham Street West, in the City of London, Merchant, and
JAMES ARCHIBALD JAQUES, Chemist, and JOHN AMERICUS FANSHAWE,
Engineer, both of Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of April; in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said George Coles, James Archibald Jaques, and
John Americus Fanshawe, Her special licence that we, the said George
Coles, James Archibald Jaques, and John Americus Fanshawe, our exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said George
Coles, James Archibald Jaques, and John Americus Fanshawe, our exe-
cutors, 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

page_text: Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC BANDS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said George Coles, James Archibald Jaques, and John
Americus Fanshawe, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, 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 we, the said George Coles, James Archibald
Jaques, and John Americus Fanshawe, do hereby declare the nature of
our 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):
:-
Our Invention of " Improvements in the Manufacture of Elastic
Bands" consists in embossing the faces of the bands and rounding the
edges, so that not only may the appearance of the bands be improved
but their strength and durability increased.
In carrying out the Invention, supposing cylindrical bands be intended
to be produced, the strips of rubber to form the bands are laid out flat
between the embossing plates and submitted to pressure. The plates are
made of metal and are very thin, and any convenient number of them
may be used in combination. When the strips of rubber have been
embossed their ends may be joined together in the ordinary manner so
as to form rings. When the elastic bands are made in the form of disc
rings these latter may be strung on a spindle with metal embossing
washers between them, and while thereon they may be vulcanized in the
ordinary manner.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents a number of india-
rubber rings a, a, a, strung on a spindle between a series of metal
washers c, c, c, which are engraved or embossed on their faces with any
desired device. Any convenient number of these rubber rings and washers
are screwed up together on the spindle 6 against the fixed collar d by
means of the screwed collar e. They are then submitted to the vulcanizing
process, and when removed from the spindle each separate ring will be
ornamented with the device engraved on the washers, as shewn at Fig. 2.

page_text: Having now described our Invention of "Improvements in the Manu-
facture of Elastic Bands," and having explained the manner of carrying
the same into effect, we claim as the Invention secured to us by Letters
Patent as aforesaid, embossing or ornamenting elastic bands in the
manner herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Coles, James Archibald
Jaques, and John Americus Fanshawe, have hereunto set our
hands and seals, the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
GEO. COLES.
JAS. A. JAQUES.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
JOHN A. FANSHAWE. (L.s.)

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