Improvements in Lettering or Ornamenting Tobacco Pouches and other Articles of India Rubber.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 17th May, 1890-Accepted. 21st June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lettering or Ornamenting Tobacco Pouches and
other Articles of India Rubber.
I EDWARD TANNER Foreman for Messieurs Charles Macintosh and Company of
Cambridge Street Works Manchester in the County of Lancaster India Rubber
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the application of raised letters, words,
and ornamental or other designs to the surface of tobacco pouches or other articles.
formed of india rubber or having an india rubber surface.
According to my invention I take any convenient length of vulcanized or unvul-
canized india rubber thread or cord of the desired thickness and I cover the surface
thereof with india rubber varnish or solution and I place this thread so varnished in
a basin or other suitable vessel of water, which will prevent the same from adhering
together in a mass.
One end of the thread (thus varnished) I take from the vessel of water and draw it
through a glass or other suitable tube which is provided with a perforated point or
nozzle sufficiently large to allow the thread to pass through it freely.
I now take the pouch or other article of india rubber (or with an india rubber
surface) in the unvulcanized state and holding the glass tube in the hand I press the
end of the varnished thread into contact with the india rubber surface to which it
firmly adheres and I then by means of the glass tube trace over the letter word or
other device which is thus formed and caused to adhere to the india rubber surface,
the varnished thread passing freely through the tube as it is moved. The tube may
be moved by hand or by suitable mechanism.
When the letter, word or other device is completed I cut off the thread and the
pouch or other article with the raised letters or other device adhering thereto, is
then vulcanized.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lettering or Ornamenting Tobacco Pouches and
other Articles of India Rubber.
I EDWARD TANNER Foreman for Messieurs Charles Macintosh and Company of
Cambridge Street Works Manchester in the County of Lancaster India Rubber
Manufacturers, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in the application of raised letters words
and ornamental or other designs to the surface of tobacco pouches or other articles
formed of india rubber or having an india rubber surface.
According to my invention I take any convenient length of vulcanized or unvul-
canized india rubber thread or cord of the desired thickness and I cover the surface
thereof with india rubber varnish or solution and by preference I place this thread
so varnished in a basin or other suitable vessel of water, which will prevent the same
from adhering together in a mass.
One end of the thread (thus varnished) I take from the vessel of water and draw it
through a glass or other suitable tube which is provided with a perforated point or
nozzle sufficiently large to allow the thread to pass through it freely.

page_text: I now take the pouch or other article of india rubber (or with an india rubber
surface) in the unvulcanized state and holding the glass tube in the hand I press
the end of the varnished thread into contact with the india rubber surface to which
it firmly adheres and I then by means of the glass tube trace over the letter word or
other device which is thus formed and caused to adhere to the india rubber surface,
the varnished thread passing freely through the tube as it is moved.
The tube may
be moved by hand or by suitable mechanism.
When the letter, word or other device is completed I cut off the thread and the
pouch or other article with the raised letters or other device adhering thereto is then
vulcanized in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be perfornied I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements in lettering or ornamenting tobacco pouches and other articles
of india rubber or having an india rubber surface by the application thereto of raised
letters, words or ornamental designs substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described.
Dad thin 10th d... of M. 1900
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.