A New or Improved Device for Spreading Paste and like Substances.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Spreading Paste and like Substances.
I, HORATIO LINCOLN MILLER, of 66, Grafton Street, Worcester, Massachusetts,
in the United States of America, Bookkeeper, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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Various appliances have been in use for the purpose of spreading adhesive
mucilage, paste, and the like, and these in almost every instance have been made
of bristles, sponge, soft rubber, and other flexible materials, which not only
spread the mucilage or paste in uneven and excessive quantities, but on acount
of the flexible or uncontrolled nature of the materials used, the mucilage, paste,
or similar preparation will frequently be spread by these appliances beyond the
desired line of application, so that papers, photos, pictures, and other valuable
mountings etc., are often spoiled or soiled beyond reparation.
Recognizing the necessity for a device more capable of control and more
positive in operation, I have produced a dauber, which overcomes all the defects
of the too flexible daubers, and will not only spread the adhesive material evenly
and in the desired quantity, removing all lumps or substances foreign thereto,
but by its use, the adhesive material may be spread to an exact line or mark in
sufficient quantities only, and without fear of soiling portions of the mountings
which are desired to be kept clean, and will thus in a neat and cleanly manner
perform the desired work.
It is well known that after a short time an accumulation of adhesive material
upon daubers of the older types, renders them so stiff and inoperative, that soak-
ing and washing must be resorted to in order to again render them flexible or
fit for use, always necessitating delay, and in many instances constituting an
undesirable operation, and one detrimental to the life of the dauber, while if
upon my dauber small quantities of the adhesive material should dry, or accumu-
late upon its sides, such accumulation may almost instantly be removed by
gently rubbing. upon a small piece of sand paper.
In accordance with my invention, my improved device may be formed of any
substance which will not be attacked by the glue, paste, or other substance to be
distributed or applied, and which should possess a considerable degree of
rigidity (although it may be very slightly flexible), at the head or working
portion, which in accordance with my invention presents a plurality of plane
working surfaces with clearly defined edges, to facilitate an accurate and delicate
application, and preferably angularly disposed with relation to each other.
Hard rubber may be used to advantage as the material from which to form the
device, and as a convenient shape, the head or working portion may be wedge-
like having two plane working surfaces diverging from a common working
edge or nose, rearwardly on each side of a longitudinal axis, along which the

page_text: material of the device may be extended to form a handle, or a suitable handle
may be attached or provided in any other convenient way.
Dated this 14th day of November 1898.
A New or Improved Device for Spreading Paste and like Substances.
I, HORATIO LINCOLN MILLER, of 66, Grafton Street, Worcester, Massachusetts,
in the United States of America, Bookkeeper, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Various appliances have been in use for the purpose of spreading glue, paste,
and the like, and these in almost every instance have been made of bristles,
sponge, soft rubber, and other flexible materials, which not only spread the glue
or paste in uneven and excessive quantities, but on account of the flexible or
uncontrolled nature of the materials used, the glue, paste, or similar preparation
will frequently be spread by these appliances beyond the desired line of applica-
tion, so that papers, photos, pictures, and other valuable mountings, etc. are
often spoiled or soiled beyond reparation.
Recognizing the necessity for a device more capable of control and more
positive in operation, I have produced a dauber, which overcomes all. the defects
of the too flexible daubers, and will not only spread the adhesive material evenly
and in the desired quantity, removing all lumps or substances foreign thereto,
but by its use, the adhesive material may be spread to an exact line or mark in
sufficient quantities only, and without fear of soiling portions of the mountings
which are desired to be kept clean, and will thus in a neat and cleanly manner
perform the desired work.
It is well known that after a short time an accumulation of adhesive material
upon daubers of the old types, renders them so stiff and inoperative, that soak-
ing and washing must be resorted to in order to again render them flexible or
fit for use, always necessitating delay, and in many instances constituting an
undesirable operation, and one detrimental to the life of the dauber, while if
upon my dauber small quantities of the adhesive material should dry, or accumu-
late upon its sides, such accumulation may almost instantly be removed by
gently rubbing upon a small piece of sand paper.
In accordance with my invention, my improved device may be formed of any
substance which will not be attacked by the glue, paste, or other substance to be
distributed or applied, and which should possess a considerable degree of
rigidity (although it may be very slightly flexible), at the head or working
portion, which in accordance with my invention presents a plurality of plane
working surfaces with clearly defined edges, to facilitate an accurate and delicate
application, and preferably angularly disposed with relation to each other.
Hard rubber may be used to advantage as the material from which to form the
device, and as a convenient shape, the head or working portion may be wedge-
like having two plane working surfaces diverging from a common working
edge or nose, rearwardly on each side of a longitudinal axis, along which the
material of the device may be extended to form a handle, or a suitable handle
may be attached or provided in any other convenient way.

page_text: Wood also is a suitable substance of which to make the dauber, or if desired,
wood with a facing of rubber or similar flexible material at the working portion.
Figure 1 illustrates in perspective a dauber in the construction of which my
invention has been embodied.
Figure 2 is a view in side elevation of a similar dauber; and
Figure 3 is a plan view of the dauber shown in Figure 2.
In the drawings the head or working portion is designated by the reference
letter a, the letters b, c designating respectively the edges of the plane faces d
by means of which the adhesive material is applied to the surface desired, and e
designates the “ nose or edge common to the planes d.
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In Figures and 3, the faces are designated by the reference letter f, and
are plated with rubber, the nose 9 being slightly flexible preferably.
The handle h may be of any convenient shape, integral with the head, or joined
thereto in any suitable manner.
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:
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(1) A device for applying glue, paste or similar substances, comprising a
wedge-like head or working portion having plane faces to receive the substance,
and by which said substance may be applied.
(2) A device for applying glue, paste or similar substances, comprising a
wedge-like head or working portion having plane faces to receive the substance,
and by which said substance may be applied, and a handle portion extended
rearwardly from said head portion.
(3) A device for applying glue, paste or similar substances comprising a
wedge-like head or working portion having plane faces to receive the substance
and by which said substance may be applied, said head presenting a flexible nose
at the juncture of said plane faces.
(4) A device for applying glue, paste or similar substances, comprising a
wedge-like head or working portion having plane faces to receive the substance,
and by which said substance may be applied, said faces being formed of rubber
or like flexible material.
(5) The device illustrated in the drawings, constructed substantially in the
manner, and for the purpose set forth
ed this 8th day of August 1899
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech. E.,
Chartered Patent Agent, 70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Associate Agent.
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech. E.,
Chartered Patent Agent, 70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Associate Agent.