COVERING BUCKLES, SADDLE-TREES, TURRETS, HOOKS, AND OTHER METALLIO TRIMMINGS FOR CARRIAGES AND HARNESS WITH A COATING OF VULCANIZED OR HARD RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA, OR OTHER GUM
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the "International Patent
Office," No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer, for the Invention of "COVERING
BUCKLES, SADDLE-TREES, TURRETS, HOOKS, AND OTHER METALLIO TRIMMINGS
FOR CARRIAGES AND HARNESS WITH A COATING OF VULCANIZED OR HARD
RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA, OR OTHER GUM."-A communication from abroad
by Andrew Albright, of Dryden, in the State of New York, United
Sealed the 28th April 1868, and dated the 16th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th November 1867.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Consulting Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "COVERING BUCKLES, SADDLE-TREES, TURRETS, HOOKS, AND OTHER METALLIC
TRIMMINGS FOR CARRIAGES AND HARNESS WITH A COATING OF VULCANIZED OR HARD
RUBBER; GUTTA PERCHA, OR OTHER GUM," a communication, to be as follows:-
The said Invention consists in protecting the various metallic trimmings
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page_text: used upon carriages and harness from rust and tarnishing by covering their
surfaces with a coating of vulcanized caoutchouc, or hard rubber,gutta percha,
or prepared gum. There are various modes in which the rubber or other
material may be applied to the metal. I will describe one simple mode which
has been successfully practised. The buckle or other article to be covered is
first enveloped with a coating of rubber or rubber paste, and is then enclosed
in a suitable two-part flask; the said flask is then put into a boiler or "vulca-
nator" and "vulcanized" to the required degree of hardness in the manner
in which vulcanizing is usually practised. When gutta percha or other
material is used instead of the rubber the mode of application is somewhat
similar.
In the Drawing accompanying this Specification Figure 1 shows a sectional
view of a flask or mould X containing a buckle A enclosed in its coating c of
rubber or rubber paste; Figure 2 shows a section of a saddle-tree, in which e
indicates the metal, and i the vulcanized rubber coating; Figure 3 represents
a finished buckle.
Articles protected in this manner can neither be injured by rust or tarnished
by exposure to the vapors of a stable, and have a very ornamental appearance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8, Southampton
Buildings,Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Robert Lake, Her special licence that I,the said William Robert
Lake, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Robert Lake, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,

page_text: use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "COVERING
BUCKLES, SADDLE-TREES, TURRETS, HOOKS, AND OTHER METALLIC TRIMMINGS POR
CARRIAGES AND HARNESS WITH A COATING OF VULCANIZED OR HARD RUBBER, GUTTA
PERCHA, OR OTHER GUM," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Robert Lake, 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 William Robert Lake, 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 fol-
lowing statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings
forming a part of this Specification:-
The said Invention consists in protecting the various metallic trimmings
used upon carriages and harness from rust and tarnishing by covering their
surfaces with a coating of vulcanized caoutchouc or hard rubber, gutta percha,
or prepared gum. There are various modes in which the rubber or other
material may be applied to the metal; I will describe one simple mode which
has been successfully practised. The buckle or other article to be covered is first
enveloped with a coating of rubber or rubber paste, and is then enclosed in a
suitable two-part flask; the said flask is then put into a boiler or "vulcanator"
and "vulcanised" to the required degree of hardness in the manner in which
vulcanising is usually practised. When gutta percha or other material is used
instead of the rubber the mode of application is somewhat similar.
In the Drawing accompanying this Specification, Figure 1 shows a sectional
view of a flask or mould ✗ containing a buckle A enclosed in its coating c of
rubber or rubber paste; Figure 2 shews a section of a saddle-tree, in which e
indicates the metal, aud i the vulcanized rubber coating; Figure 3 represents
a finished buckle.
Articles protected in this manner can neither be injured by rust or tarnished
by exposure to the vapors of a stable, and have a very ornamental appearance
Having thus fully described the said Invention, ascommunicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, and shown how the same may be conveniently and
advantageously carried into practice, I claim, applying to buckles, saddle-
trees, turrets, hooks, and other metallic trimmings for carriages and harness

page_text: a coating of vulcanized or hard rubber or other gum, substantially as and for
the purposes specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
year of
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE. (L.B.)
Witness,
THO. N. PALMER,
Clerk to Messrs. Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
8, Southampton Buildings, W.C.