Improved Tool for Gumming.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 30th Sept.,
1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Tool for Gumming.
I, EUGENE FERDINAND FORSMAN, of Hornsgatan 28, Stockholm, Sweden,
Machine Agent, 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 present invention refers to a tool intended to be used for gumming or
glueing paper, paste board stuff, thin boards or the like instead of the now com-
monly used method consisting in applying dissolved gum with a brush. The
purport of the invention is to do away with the drawbacks attached to the use
of dissolved gum and a brush,--such as for instance soiled fingers.
The said tool consist of a rod, or a flat or pyramidical body of gum arabic or
other gummy or glutinous material with or without threads, and surrounded
by a protecting cover of wood, metal paste-board, or other suitable material,
the said rod, flat or pyramidical body being moistened when about to be used
and then applied in the same way as a brush dipped into dissolved gum. For
the purpose of counteracting the effect caused by alterations of temperature on
some gummy or glutinous materials threads of any suitable material may be
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passed through the rod, flat or pyramidical body of the said material.
number of these threads depends on the size and shape of the body.
The outer cover besides protecting the gum prevents the soiling of the hand.
In the accompanying drawing,--
Fig. 1 shows in side elevation a gumming tool consisting of a rod a of gum
arabic with a number of threads t and a protecting cover b. The cover has been
partly removed to show the gum rod.
Fig. 2 shows the same tool seen from the end.
Fig. 3 shows in side elevation a gumming tool consisting of a flat body of
gum arabic c without threads and with a wooden cover d. The cover d has been
partly removed.
Fig. 4 shows the same tool seen from the end.
Fig. 5 is a side view of a gumming tool consisting of a rod of gum arabic
without threads but with a protecting cover of wood. It is ready for use.
Fig. 6 shows the same tool in section; e is the rod and f the cover or handle.
Fig. 7 shows in side elevation a gumming tool consisting of a pyramidical
body of gum arabic g without threads but with a cover h of wood.
Fig. 8 shows a section of the same tool.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is: -
1.) A gumming tool consisting of a body of gum arabic or other gummy or
glutinous material shaped in a suitable manner and supplied with a cover or
case of suitable material.
2.) A gumming tool consisting of a body of gum arabic or other gummy or

page_text: glutinous material shaped in a suitable manner and supplied with a cover or
case of suitable material, threads of suitable material being passed through the
said body of gum arabic or other gummy or glutinous material.
Botol this 10th dow of Iumuat 1000
JOHN P. O'DONNELL, Fel. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
Agent for Applicant, 71, Palace Chambers, Westminster, S.W.