Year: 1886

page_text: We HUGH ADAMS SILVER of Sun Court, Cornhill, London, Merchant and Manu-
facturer and WILLIAM STEPHEN BENNETT of the same place, Salesman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention, is to prepare rubber in sheet form of equal thickness
and to adapt it to moulds for any article such as drinking and pocket flasks,
sandwich boxes, cigar cases, card cases, drinking cups, (which may be of various
sizes to engage within one another in nest order) and other similar or like articles
which it is necessary to make for personal use, said rubber being treated by the
ordinary process to convert it into ebonite or very hard rubber capable of being
bighly polished or bearing a polish. The articles so made may have caps, screw or
other stoppers, mounts, fillets, rings or the like in metal or other material fitted
on or in them either by cement or other means or said additions may be moulded
in or to the article according to its character or intended use, said additions being
applied at any desired part of the article or articles in any number and according
to any device.
The drinking, or pocket flasks may be of flat form on one, or on both sides, and
have their corners rounded; the sides may be concave, or convex, fluted or of
other shape, or the ends may be rounded, as also the bottom, or the top, or
both top and bottom, and if provided with closing caps they may be bayonet
jointed, the caps proper having a circular motion over studs or pins to fix them
in position watertight.
The sandwich boxes in ebonite may be in parts to slide one within the other to
enclose the contents or lids may be fitted by hinges or otherwise or be made to
slide in grooves or to fit over the edges and be secured in any suitable manner.
They may be provided with mounts or with means of fastening the parts together.

page_text: Cigar and Card cases and other articles in ebonite may be made in a similar
manner as described, with reference to the sandwich boxes and drinking or picnic
cups or other vessels may be made when desirable to fit one within another to
economize space and to facilitate of their easy packing and being readily available
for use. Any suitable appliance can be employed in connection with the above
for combining them or holding them temporarilly in the required position, or said
cups may be used in combination with the drinking or pocket flasks or other
article in ebonite either as caps to the article or as pockets fitting the bottom
thereof..

page_text: Cabos, varu vases, and other summar
or like Articles.
We, HUGH ADAMS SILVER of Sun Court, Cornhill, London, Merchant and Manu-
facturer, and WILLIAM STEPHEN BENNETT of the same place, Salesman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of our invention, is to prepare rubber in sheet form of equal thickness
and to adapt it to moulds for any article such as drinking and pocket flasks,
sandwich boxes, cigar cases, card cases, drinking cups, (which may be of various
sizes to engage within one another in nest order) and other similar or like articles
which it is necessary to make for personal use, said rubber being treated by the
ordinary process to convert it into ebonite or very hard rubber capable of being
highly polished or bearing a polish. The articles so made may have caps screw, or
other stoppers, mounts, fillets, rings, or the like in metal, or other material fitted
on, or in them either by cement, or other means, or said additions may be moulded
in or to the article according to its character or intended use, said additions being
applied at any desired part of the article or articles in any number and according
to any device.
The drinking or pocket flasks may be of flat form on one, or on both sides and
have their corners rounded, the sides may be concave, or convex, fluted, or of other
shape, or the ends may be rounded as also the bottom, or the top, or both top and
bottom and if provided with closing caps they may be bayonet jointed, the caps
proper having a circular motion over studs or pins to fix them in position water-
tight.
The sandwich boxes in ebonite may be in parts to slide one within the other to
enclose the contents or lids may be fitted by hinges, or otherwise, or be made to
alide in grooves, or to fit over the edges and be secured in any suitable manner.
They may be provided with mounts or with means of fastening the parts together.
Cigar and card cases and other articles in ebonite may be made in a similar
manner as described with reference to the sandwich boxes, and drinking, or pic-nic
cups, or other vessels may be made when desirable to fit one within another to
economize space and to facilitate their easy packing and being readily available for
use. Any suitable appliance can be employed in connection with the above for
combining them or holding them temporarilly in the required position, or said cups
may be used in combination with the drinking or pocket flasks, or other article in
ebonite either as caps to the article, or as pockets fitting the bottom thereof.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The manufacture of drinking and pocket flasks, sandwich boxes, cigar cases, card
cases and other similar or like articles of hard cured Rubber, such as ebonite, as
hereabove described.