CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC WEBBING."
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Nathaniel Jones Amies, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Smallware Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC WEBBING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Nathaniel Jones Amies at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st May 1868.
I, NATHANIEL JONES AMIES, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Smallware Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC WEBBING," to be
as follows:-
The Invention relates to the manufacture of a fabric consisting of a com-
bination of india-rubber and fibrous material, and termed elastic webbing, the
usual method of making such fabric being by governing. elastic strands or
threads with silk, cotton, or worsted, and interweaving them by means of a
braiding machine.
My Invention consists in the employment and use of a tape, band, or flat
length of india-rubber, instead of a number of strands, and covering such flat
length with silk, worsted, cotton, or other fibrous material by means of a
circular braiding machine, such being a moro economical method.
The mode of manufacturing may be concisely detailed as follows:-The

page_text: tape or width of india-rubber is to be passed up the centre of the braiding
machine in the same way as the strands of the same material in manufac-
turing an elastic cord on a circular braid machine, and if the india-rubber is
what is called vulcanized, it must be coated with a solution of india-rubber or
any other suitable adhesive liquid, either before or in process of covering, by
dipping and running it through the solution at a sufficient distance from the
point of platting for any excess of liquid to run off, or by wiping it with
stationary bars or revolving rollers to prevent the solution running through
the fabric when platted; it is then braided or platted over with threads by
means of the braiding spindle, and passed through heated calender rollers to
be flattened ready for use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Nathaniel Jones Amies in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NATHANIEL
JONES AMIES, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Smallware Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of May, 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 Nathaniel Jones Amies, Her special license that I, the said
Nathaniel Jones Amics, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Nathaniel Jones Amies, my 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC WEBBING," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Nathaniel Jones Amies, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
their, or one of their bands 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Nathaniel Jones Amics, 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 (that is to say):
The Invention relates to the manufacture of a fabric consisting of a
combination of india-rubber and fibrous materials, and termed elastic webbing,
the usual method of making such fabric being by covering elastic strands or
threads with silk, cotton, or worsted, and interweaving them by means of a
braiding machine.
My Invention consists in the employment and use of a tape, band, or flat
length of india-rubber, instead of a number of strands, and covering such
flat length with silk, worsted, cotton, or other fibrous materials, by means of
a circular braiding machine, such being a more economical method.
The mode of manufacturing may be concisely detailed as follows:-The
tape or width of india-rubber is to be passed up the centre of the braiding
machine in the same way as the strands of the same material in manu-
facturing an elastic cord on a circular braid machine, and if the india-rubber is
what is called vulcanized, it must be coated with a solution of india-rubber or
any other suitable adhesive liquid, either before or in process of covering, by
dipping and running it through the solution at a sufficient distance from the
point of platting for any excess of liquid to run off, or by wiping it with
stationary bars or revolving rollers to prevent the solution running through
the fabric when platted; it is then braided or platted over with threads by
means of the braiding spindle, and passed through heated calender rollers to
be flattened ready for use.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the employment and use of a tape, band, or flat length
of india-rubber covered with silk, worsted, cotton, or other fibrous materials
to be employed as elastic webbing, as herein-before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nathaniel Jones Amies, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
NATH JONES AMIES. (L.s.)