IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COATING AND COVERING OF METALLIC SPRINGS; STEEL, IRON, AND OTHER METAL BANDS, FOR THE USE OF ANY KIND OF MACHINERY; DRIVING BANDS 03 STRAP3; RIBS SUITABLE FOR UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS; STAY-BUSKS; AND RIBS FOR STAYS, HATS, BONNETS, REEDS, AND CRINOLINE, AND ARTICLES OF DRESS; AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Mickelthwate, Joseph Peace, and Samuel
Johnstone Hobson, all of Sheffield, in the County of York, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COATING AND COVERING OF METALLIC
SPRINGS; STEEL, IRON, AND OTHER METAL BANDS, FOR THE USE OF ANY KIND
OF MACHINERY; DRIVING BANDS 03 STRAP3; RIBS SUITABLE FOR UMBRELLAS
AND PARASOLS; STAY-BUSKS; AND RIBS FOR STAYS, HATS, BONNETS, REEDS,
AND CRINOLINE, AND ARTICLES OF DRESS; AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES"
Sealed the 29th November 1859, and dated the 30th. May 1859.
D
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Mickelthwate,
Joseph Peace, and Samuel Johnstone Hobson, at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 30th May 1859.
We, ARTHUR MICKELTHWATE, JOSEPH PEACE, and SAMUEL JOHNSTONE
HOBSON, all of Sheffield, in the County of York, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COATING AND COVERING
OP METALLIC SPRINGS: STEEL, IRON, AND OTHER METAL BANDS, FOR THE USE OF
ANY KIND OF MACHINERY; DRIVING BANDS OR STRAPS: RIBS SUITABLE FUR UM-
BRELLAS AND PARASOLS: STAY-BUSKS; AND RIBS FOR STAYS, HATS, BONNETS, REEDS,
AND CRINOLINE, AND ARTICLES OF DRESS; AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in covering or coating ribs for umbrellas and

page_text: parasols, and springs and other articles of ladies' dresses, driving bands, and
other such like articles, where the metal is required to be protected from
damp, also as a nou-conductor of lightning, with gutta percha and other
substances, and is effected in the following manner:-The lengths of metallic
springs are warmed to enable the gutta percha to enable the gutta percha to
adhere more firmly; they are then drawn through the gutta percha, and
passed through guages or rollers to give them a surface resembling whale-
bone. Papier-maché, paper pulp, vulcanized india-rubber, or other adhesive
substance may also be used in lieu of or in combination with gutta percha, or
even a thick coating of varnish may be used, the object being to protect the
metal from the action of the atmosphere, at the same time rendering it a non-
conductor of lightning. In some cases flock, shoddy, or velvet pile may be
mixed with the gutta percha, or added to its surface after it is placed upon
the metal, and before the gutta percha has time to cool, when it is again
passed through another set of rollers for the purpose of pressing and fixing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Arthur Mickelthwate, Joseph Peace, and Samuel John-
stone Hobson, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th November
1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ARTHUR
MICKELTH WATE, JOSEPH PEACE, and SAMUEL JOHNSTONE HOBSON, all of Shef-
field, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Arthur Mickelthwate, Joseph Peace,and Samuel Johnstone Hobson, Her
special licence that we, the said Arthur Mickelthwate, Joseph Peace, and
Samuel Johnstone Hobson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Arthur Mickelthwate, Joseph Peace, and Samuel
Johnstone Hobson, our 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

page_text: THE COATING AND COVERING OF METALLIC SPRINGS: STEEL, IRON. AND OTHER METAL
BANDS, FOR THE USE OF ANY KIND OF MACHINERY: DRIVING BANDS OR STRAP3;
RIBS SUITABLE FOR UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS: STAY-BUSKS: AND RIBS FOR STAYS.
HATS, BONNETS. REEDS, AND CRINOLINE, AND ARTICLES OF DRESS: AND OTHER
USEFUL PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Arthur Mickelthwaite, Joseph Peace, and Samuel Johnstone Hobson, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE. that we, the said Arthur Mickelthwate, Joseph Pence,
and Samuel Johnstone Hobson, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say:-
This Invention consists in covering or coating ribs for umbrellas and
parasols, and springs and other articles of ladies' dresses, driving bands, and
other such like articles where the metal is required to be protected from
damp, also as a non-conductor of lightening, with gutta percha and other
substances. The lengths of the metallic springs are warmed, to enable the
gutta percha to adhere more firmly; they are then drawn through the gutta
percha, and passed through gauges or rollers to give them a surface resembling
whalebone. Papier-maché, paper pulp, or vulcanized india-rubber, or other
adhesive substance may also be used in lieu of or in combination with gutta
percha, or even a thick coating of varnish or paint may be used, the object
being to protect the metal from the action of the atmosphere, at the same
time rendering it a non-conductor of lightning. Leather may, in like manner,
be fastened on the steel by gutta percha or other adhesive substance, for the
purpose of attaching itself to drums, spindles, and other parts of driving
machinery. In some cases flock, shoddy, or velvet pile may be mixed with
the gutta percha, or added to its surface after it is placed upon the metal, and
before the gutta percha has time to cool, when it is again passed through
another set of rollers for the purpose of pressing and fixing.
Having now fully described the nature and object of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we would remark, in
conclusion, that what we claim as our Invention, intended to be secured to

page_text: us by the herein in part recited Letters Patent, is, the covering of metal
springs and other metallic bands and substances, in the manner and for the
purposes herein fully described and set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Arthur Mickelthwate, Joseph Peace,
and Samuel Johnstone Hobson, have hereunto set our hands and
seals, the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
JOHN FRITH,
9, New George Street,
Sheffield.
ARTHUR MICKELTHWATE. (L.S.)
JOSEPH PEACE.
S. J. HOBSON.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)