IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF SUBSTITUTES FOR PASTE WAFERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I, EDWIN MANSFIELD, of Barton Arcade Manchester; Chartered Accountant, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF SUBSTITUTES FOR PASTE WAFERS," to be as follows :—
The object of the improvements is to form a convenient substitute for ordinary
paste wafers, which shall be simple & cheap.
To accomplish this & to effect my improvements, I prepare sheets of paper, cloth,
or other textile fabric of suitable texture and size, by covering the same on both
sides with a coating of gum, starch, paste, or other adhesive substance, and then,
by the aid of a press and dies, or by rollers, or by hand punch, cut the same into
discs of the desired form for wafers or substitutes therefor. Or the discs may be
gummed after being cut, but not by preference.
These forms may be either circular, oval, triangular, or any other geometrical
figure, or may be ornamental or irregular in form, as well as being plain or
coloured, with or without designs thereon.
I am well aware that paper discs or wafers have been manufactured as legal
seals, crests &c, having one side thereof prepared with gum; but that is entirely
different to this my present invention, which consists in preparing such discs with
gum, or other adhesive substance, on both sides, so that they may be used for
sealing letters, fastening documents together, and other purposes for which the
ordinary paste wafer is at present employed.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.

page_text: I, EDWIN MANSFIELD, of Barton Arcade, Manchester; Chartered Accountant, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF SUBSTITUTES FOR PASTE WAFERS," 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 the improvements is to form a convenient substitute for ordinary
paste wafers, which shall be simple and cheap.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I prepare sheets of paper,
cloth, or other textile fabric, of suitable texture and size, by covering the same on
both sides with a coating of gum, starch, paste, or other adhesive substance, and
then, by the aid of a press and dies, or by rollers, or by hand punch, cut the same
into discs of the desired form for wafers or substitutes therefor. Or the discs may
be gummed after being cut, but not by preference.
These forms may be either circular, oval, triangular, or any other geometrical
figure, or may be ornamental or irregular in form, as well as being plain or
coloured, with or without designs thereon.
I am well aware that paper discs or wafers have been manufactured as legal
seals, crests &c, having one side thereof prepared with gum, but that is entirely
different to this my present invention, which consists in preparing such discs with
gum, or other adhesive substance, on both sides, so that they may be used for
sealing letters, fastening documents together, and other purposes for which the
ordinary paste wafer is at present employed.
Variations in detail of preparation may be adopted without departing from the
peculiar character of the invention, and the discs of paper may not be completely
cut assunder by the dies or punches, but may be left connected together by narrow
strips of the paper or fabric used so as to form sheets of such discs, for convenience
of package and sale. And although ordinary paper is by preference used as being
suitable and economical, prepared paper, such as vegetable parchment, may be
employed, as well as cloth, or other textile fabrics.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The employment of paper, or preparations thereof or cloth or other textile
fabrics, for the manufacture of substitutes for paste wafers, whether in isolated
discs or slightly connected together in sheets, in manner substantially as described.
2. The manufacture of substitutes for paste wafers, from paper or preparations
thereof, or from cloth, or other textile fabrics which have previously been coated
on both sides with gum, starch, paste, or other adhesive substance, substantially as
described.
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WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester.