AN IMPROVED COVER OR PROTECTION FOR STEEL AND OTHER METAL SPRINGS, RIBBANDS, AND Hoops.
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
COVER OR PROTECTION FOR STEEL AND OTHER METAL SPRINGS, RIBBANDS, AND
Hoops. A communication from abroad by Eugene Lange, of Paris,
France.
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Sealed the 10th August 1863, and dated the 16th February 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th February 1863.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED COVER OR PROTECTION FOR STEEL AND OTHER METAL SPRINGS,
RIBBANDS, AND Hoops," to be as follows:-
This Invention is intended chiefly to apply to protecting or covering the
metal ribbands used in the manufacture of "crinolines," but it applies to
metal springs, ribbands, and hoops generally. It consists in winding spirally
on such springs, ribbands, or hoops one or more strips of paper stamped,
colored, or plain, or in encasing the springs, ribbands, or hoops in sheaths of
paper or papier mâché.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence, that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "AN IMPROVED COVER OR PROTECTION FOR STEEL AND OTHER METAL
SPRINGS, RIBBANDS, AND HOOPS," (communicated to me from abroad by Eugene
Lange, of Paris, France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
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This Invention is intended chiefly to apply to protecting or covering the
metal ribbands used in the manufacture of "crinolines," but it applies to
metal springs, ribbands, and hoops generally. It consists in winding spirally
on such springs, ribbands, or hoops one or more strips of paper stamped,
colored, or plain, or in encasing the springs, ribban:ls, or hoops in sheaths. of
paper or papier mâché.
The manner in which I prefer to wind the strips of paper on the springs,

page_text: ribbands, or hoops is represented in Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings.
I secure the ends of the ribband or other article a in clips or holders b, c, and
impart rotary motion thereto, and roll spirally on the ribband a strip of
paper d, which is unrolled from a bobbin e; the spirals of the strip of paper
slightly overlap each other. The paper may be wound on the ribband
in a dry state, or the whole, or the overlapping edges only, of its under surface
may be covered with an adhesive substance or composition. The end of the
strip of paper must be secured by glue or otherwise. The paper covering
may, if desired, be coated with a varnish or other coating after being applied
to the ribband. A second covering of paper may be applied in the same
manner, and by preference I wind on the spirals in the reverse direction to or
across the first covering; this second covering should be made to adhere to
the first by an adhesive substance or composition. In place of covering the
spring, ribband, or hoop by winding a strip or strips of paper spirally thereon,
I sometimes encase them in a sheath of paper gummed at its edges, as repre-
sented in Figure 2, or I encase them in a sheath of papier mâché.
Figure 3 is a transverse section of a ribband with its paper covering; this
Figure also shews the manner in which I sometimes stamp or emboss the
paper to give it the appearance of cotton or other textile fabric by means of
cylinders or plates.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, covering or
protecting steel and other metal springs, ribbands, and hoops by winding one
or more strips of paper spirally thereon, or by encasing them in sheaths of
paper or papier mâché.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
R. A. DROOMAN. (L.S.)