CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAKING OR MANUFACTURING OF CABLES, ROPES, WHALE FISHING AND OTHER LINES, LATHE AND RIGGER BANDS, BAGS AND PURSES, PART OF WHICH SAID IMPROVED ARTICLES ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1831

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, İ, ROBERT
WILLIAM SIEVIER, of Southampton Row, in the Parish of St. George,
Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the First day of December, in the third year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me; the said
Robert William Sievier, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Robert William Sievier, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert William Sievier,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein men-
tioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention or discovery of
" CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAKING OR MANUFACTURING OF CABLES, ROPES,
WHALE FISHING AND OTHER LINES, LATHE AND RIGGER BANDS, BAGS AND PURSES,
PART OF WHICH SAID IMPROVED ARTICLES ARE APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL
PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the
said Robert William Sievier, shall cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited

page_text: Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert William Sievier, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the
following description thereof (that is to say):-
My said Invention or Discovery of Certain Improvements in the Making or
Manufacturing of Cables, Ropes, Whale Fishing and other Lines, Lathe and
Rigger Bands, Bags and Purses, consists in the application or employment of
filaments, threads, or strands of caoutchouc or india rubber to or for the
making, manufacturing, or constructing of elastic cables, ropes, whale fishing
and other lines; lathe and rigger bands, bags and purses, such filaments, threads,
or strands of caoutchouc or india rubber previously platted over or covered
with hemp, flax, wool, silk, cotton, catgut, Indian grass, strips of leather, or
other fit and proper materials, part of which articles, when so manufactured,
are applicable to various other useful purposes. As filaments or threads of
india rubber, covered with cotton, silk, and other materials, are now commonly
used in the manufacture of many articles where elasticity is required, and as
such filaments or threads are covered with the different materials by various
kinds of machines applicable to the purpose, it is not necessary for me to
describe any particular machinery by which the filaments, threads, or strands
of india rubber required for the different articles to be manufactured in my
improved manner are to be platted over, intermixed, or covered with the
materials, I therefore shall only state generally that the filaments, threads, or
strands of caoutchouc are prepared by cutting them from any convenient sized
or shaped piece of india rubber into long strips, which are afterwards stretched
to their utmost tension, and wound upon drums, reels, or bobbins, ready to be
platted over or covered by or interwoven with the various materials before
mentioned. This may be done by any proper machinery, such as those used
for making sash lines, braiding, platting, or stay-lace machines, or any other
machinery of the like description which will cover the filaments, threads, or
strands with the different materials in the manner of winding, platting, netting,
knitting, laying, or interweaving, or any such other kind of fabric or manufac-
ture which will allow of the filaments, threads, or strands, when so covered,
stretching or colapsing in their length to the degree of elasticity required,
without injuring their tenacity. The filaments, threads, or strands, after being
prepared by platting over, covering, or intermixing them with any of the
different materials as above described, either singly or mixed, are, for the

page_text: manufacture of any of the various articles above mentioned, to be platted,
netted, knitted, laid, or interwoven one with the other, by any kind of
machinery applicable to the purpose, or they may be used in the same manner
without covering them with any coating of the different materials, the
number of filaments, strands, or threads so to be combined, and the positions
of them, depending upon the different kinds of articles to be manufactured.
For instance, in the manufacture of cables, ropes, and other articles where
great strength and elasticity is required, the filaments may be passed through
different machines, each machine taking the strand or cord of filaments as pre-
pared by the foregoing machine, and platting, netting, knitting, laying, inter-
weaving, or otherwise combining any number of such strands or cords again
into one strand or cord, and so on until the article is composed of, such a
number of filaments, threads, or strands as are necessary for its required
strength.
In order that my improved manufacture of the various articles above
mentioned may be better understood, I shall proceed to describe the prin-
ciple of constructing the same, that is, of the methods or manners in which
the single filaments are combined by laying, interweaving, knitting, or netting,
so as to form the completed article; and I have hereunto annexed several
Diagrams which will serve to illustrate the same, reference being had to the
Figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
Having prepared any number of the filaments or threads of the caoutchouc
or india rubber, they are severally to be coated or covered with any of the
above-named or other proper materials, by means of winding, platting, braid-
ing, knitting, or netting machines, or any other machinery which will cover
them with the different materials, in such a way so as to allow of their stretching
or colapsing in their length.
Fig. 1 of the annexed Diagrams may be considered as an end view or
section of one of these filaments or threads as it would appear when cut
asunder; seven, or any other number that may be thought desirable, of these
filaments, are then taken, and placed as in Fig. 2 and in the side view Fig. 3,
and are covered with a coating of any of the proper materials by means of a
platting, knitting, netting, winding, laying, or other machines, thus forming
a strand or cord which may be used as a sash line, whale fishing or other lines,
lathe or rigger bands, according to the size of the filaments used. These
strands or cords of filaments are also capable of being formed, with others of a
similar description, into a cable, rope, band, or line, in various ways, either.
by placing them together in straight lines, and covering them with a coating
upon the various materials, knitted, netted, or platted, or wound upon them;

page_text: or, instead of being placed straight against each other, they may be platted,
knitted, or netted, laced, or interwoven one with the other, as in Figs. 9, 10,
11, and 12; or so connected together as to render an external casing or coat-
ing unnecessary. Figs. 4 and 5 shews seven of the strands or cords of fila-
ments as formed in Figs. 2 and 3, which may be connected together by a coating
of single filaments, as shewn in side view, Fig. 6; or they may be covered
by strands or cords of a greater number of filaments, or of cords or strands of
the different materials above mentioned, or any other description of coating
which will allow of the free action of the elasticity of the india rubber. The
interstices or space between the strands must be filled up with any suitable
sized filaments or strands, prepared as above as shown in Fig. 5.
Fig. 7. is a transfer section of seven of the strands or cords as found in
Figs. 4 and 5, connected together in like manner, so as to constitute a large
rope or cable.
Fig. 8 shews the spaces between the cords or strands filled up as described
in Fig. 5.
Figs. 9, 10, and 11 are representations of bands or cords, either round or
flat, formed of a number of filaments, strands, or cords, connected together by
platting or interweaving one with the other, so as to allow of the band stretch-
ing and colapsing.
Fig. 12 is a section of a rope or cord composed wholly of filaments, as at
Fig. 1, without being previously combined as above described, which may be
covered as above stated.
My improved bags and purses are composed of knitting or network, made
of strands or cords of the filaments prepared as above described, and which is.
capable of being made into purses, or bags by hand; or the filaments, strands,
or cords, prepared as above described, may be knitted, netted, or platted into
purses or bags by machinery or by hand. As there are so many description of
bags to which these improvements in the construction may be applicable, it is
not necessary to state further than that in any case where elasticity may be
required the bag or purse may be made wholly of the above materials, or only
parts used; for instance, in making carpet travelling bags, I should only from the
ends or edges of the bag of the elastic material, covered, when stretched to its
utmost extension, with leather or other suitable substance which will be capable
on colapsing of drawing up the leather or other covering into puckers or
gathers, so as to allow of the bag enlarging very considerably when any extra
quantity of articles are put into it.
Having thus described the process, and the kind of machinery which may be
used for platting over, covering, or intermixing the filaments, threads, or

page_text: strands of caoutchouc or india rubber with hemp, flax, silk, wool, cotton, cat-
gut, Indian grass, strips of leather, or any other fit and proper material, and
also some of the modes or meshes of combining such filaments, covered as
above described, for the constructing or manufacturing of cables, ropes, whale
fishing and other lines, lathe and rigger bands, bags or purses, I desire it to
be particularly understood that I do not wish to intend to claim as my
Invention any part of such machinery used for so platting over, covering,
or intermixing the said filaments, threads, or strands of india rubber, as it is
well known and in common use, and as any kind or construction of machinery
capable of covering them by knitting, netting, platting, or interweaving, will
answer the purpose desired. Neither do I intend to claim the machinery, or
confine myself to the manner or mode of combining such filaments, threads,
or strands of india rubber to produce the articles above mentioned, as I am
aware there are many other ways of manufacturing cables, ropes, whale fishing
and other lines, lathe rigger bands, bags and purses, from filaments of caout-
chouc prepared as above described. But I wish it to be understood that I do
claim as my Invention the application of filaments, threads, or strands of india
rubber in the making or manufacturing of cables, ropes, whale fishing and other
lines, lathe and rigger bands, bags and purses, in the manner herein particularly
described; and I verily believe that this my Specification does in all and every
respect comply with the proviso contained in the above-mentioned Letters
Patent.