IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS TO BE APPLIED TO GIRTHS, BELTS, AND BANDAGES, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC BANDS
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, STEPHEN
PERRY, of Woodlands Place, Saint John's Wood, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, and THOMAS BARNABAS DAFT, of Birmingham, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventeenth day of March, in the eighth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Stephen Perry aud Thomas Barnabas Daft, our exors, adñiors, and assigns,
1er especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the
said Stephen Perry and Thomas Barnabas Daft, our exors, admirs, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Stephen Perry and Thomas Barnabas
Daft, our exors, adñiors, 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
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS TO BE APPLIED TO GIRTHS, BELTS, AND BANDAGES,
AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC BANDS;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that we the said Stephen Perry and
Thomas Barnabas Daft, or one of us, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of our said luvention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in ler said Majesty's High Court of Chancery

page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited 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, we, the said
Stephen Perry and Thomas Barnabas Daft, do hereby declare that the nature
of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
are fully described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and
letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists, first, in making the springs to be applied to girths,
belts, and bandages of a certain preparation of india-rubber (caoutchouc).
And, secondly, our Invention consists of improvements in manufacturing
clastic bands, when using a certain preparation of india-rubber (caoutchoue),
applicable for a variety of purposes.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood, and readily carried
into effect, we will proceed to describe the means pursued by us.
It is well known that india-rubber in its natural state becomes hard with
low temperatures, and materially injured by high temperatures, and further,
that if india-rubber be held for some time in a distended state, that it becomes
set and looses its elasticity till heat is applied; but within a few years it has
been discovered that by combining india-rubber with sulphur, and submitting
such combination to high degrees of heat, that the india-rubber becomes more
permanent in its elastic character, and is not affected to any practical extent
by changes of temperature to which this climate is subject, such preparation of
india-rubber being now known under the name of "vulcanized india-rubber,"
and sold by the manufacturers, Messieurs Macintosh, of Manchester, such
manufacture of india-rubber being secured by Letters Patent granted to
Mr. Thomas Hancock in One thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and
we mention these circumstances in order to give the best information to the
manufacturer, and to state that we make no claim to the preparation of the
india-rubber herein mentioned, our Invention consisting of springs of such
preparation of india-rubber applied to the articles herein mentioned, and also
of the peculiar forms of elastic bands made from such manufacture of india-
rubber.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.

page_text: fabric, or be the means of connecting separate parts of girths, belts, and
bandages. The construction of girths, belts, and bandages being very
numerous, though not materially differing from each other, so far as their
requirement for springs or clasticity, it will not be necessary to shew every
arrangement of belt, girth, or bandage which may have springs applied to
them according to our Invention; but it will be sufficient to shew different
means of applying the springs to some classes, and then the person making up
other forins of girths, belts, or bandages than are shown will readily apply the
springs of the prepared india-rubber thereto, according to this part of our
Invention, which consists of applying such springs to girths, belts, or bandages
made of woven or other fabric or leather, and not in the form of the girths,
belts, or bandages.
Figure 1 shows part of a girth having at its ends the prepared india-rubber
strips a, a, as springs intermediate of the girth and the buckles, the strips of
prepared india-rubber being securely retained between surfaces of leather by
stitching.
Figure 2 shews part of a belt for the human form, the two ends of the
woven portion c are connected by straps and backles, with springs a, a, of the
prepared india-rubber.
Figure 3 shews a knee cap or bandage for tlie knee of a horse, the parts of
the straps d, d, of which are connected by springs a, a, as is shewn.
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Figure 4 shows a band to be applied to the waistband of a pair of trousers,
and Fig. 4 a band to be applied to the back of a waistcoat; in such cases we
prefer to enclose the strips of the prepared india-rubber between two surfaces
of woven fabric, and we do so by sewing or otherwise joining the two fabrics
together, with the strips or springs a, a, within, the ends of the strips a, a,
being fastened (when stretched) to the fabric, as is shown, or otherwise.
like manner, bands to form parts of braces, garters, and other articles are
made, having the springs a, a, inserted in the bands or used as connecting
means between parts thereof, as shewn at Figures 5 and 6, and in this manner
may elasticity be given to girths, belts, and bandages made of woven or other
fabrics or leather, notwithstanding they may differ in shape from those shewn
in the Drawing. I would remark, that endless bands, as described in the
second part of our Invention, may be used in place of the strips a, a.
The second part of our Invention consists of manufacturing clastic bands by
forming them endless, either in circles, cylinders, or other figures producing an
endless band, which are applicable to various uses.
Figure 7 shews a circular ring of the prepared india-rubber, and Figure 8
a cylindrical ring; that of Figure 7 is cut out of a sheet of the prepared

page_text: india-rubber, and that at Figure 8 is cut from a tube of the prepared india-
rubber; and Figure 9 is another form of endless band. These endless springs or
elastic bands are suitable for a great variety of purposes, and may be made of
any size and strength, according to the purpose to which they are to be applied.
They may be covered with leather, silk, or other fabric, and used as belts,
bandages, garters, or wristbands, also for going over other bandages to retain
them in their places, in place of using bands of tape or other such means of
fastening, and they will be peculiarly applicable for retaining the paper or
other coverings of jars containing preserves or other articles, and in fact for a
great variety of purposes. And we would state that this part of our Invention
has for its object the making of endless bands of the prepared india-rubber
applicable to the purposes herein-described and other similar purposes.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we would have it understood that we do
not confine ourselves to the details herein described, so long as the peculiar
character of either part of our Invention be retained; but what we claim is,--
First, the applying springs of the preparation of india-rubber herein men-
tioned to girths, belts, and bandages, as herein described.
And, secondly, we claim the making of endless elastic bands of the prepara-
tion of india-rubber herein mentioned, applicable to various purposes, as
herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Stephen Perry and Thomas Barnabas
Daft, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixteenth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of September, m
the year of our Lord 1845, the aforesaid Stephen Perry and Thomas Barnabas
Daft came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord Oue
Load and forty five