AN IMPROVED MATERIAL FOR STUFFING SEATS, CUSHIONS, MATTRASSES, AND ARTICLES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Frederick Henley, of Pimlico, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MATERIAL FOR STUFFING SEATS, CUSHIONS, MATTRASSES, AND
ARTICLES." A communication from abroad by Emile Rousseau, of Paris,
France
Sealed the 2nd January 1866, and dated the 7th July 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Frederick Henley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th July 1865.
I, THOMAS FREDERICK HENLEY, of Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED MATERIAL FOR STUFFING SEATS, CUSHIONS, MATTRASSES, AND OTHER
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This stuffing is applicable in all cases where horsehair, cork, vegetable
and animal fibres have been heretofore employed; it consists of shreds
of vulcanized india-rubber, or of threads of vulcanized india-rubber in a
spiral or vermicular form, and may be used by itself or mixed with
material suitable for a stuffing. The apparatus I prefer to employ for producing
any other

page_text: the india-rubber shreds consists of a pair of rollers of different diameters
driven at the same speed, or of a pair of rollers of the same diameter driven
at different speeds. I produce the spiral threads by causing a block of
rubber to rotate against a fixed blade, or by means of a movable blade
made to act upon a fixed block of rubber. I do not claim the apparatus above
mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Frederick Henley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th January 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
FREDERICK HENLEY, of Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Frederick Henley, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Frederick Henley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Thomas Frederick Henley, 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 "AN
IMPROVED MATERIAL FOR STUFFING SEATS, CUSHIONS, MATTRASSES, AND OTHER
ARTICLES, (communicated to me from abroad by Emile Rousseau, of Paris,
France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Frederick Henley, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Frederick Henley, 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, that is to say:-
.

page_text: This stuffing is applicable in all cases where horsehair, cork, vegetable
and animal fibres have been heretofore employed; it consists of shreds
of vulcanized india-rubber, or of threads of vulcanized india-rubber in a
spiral or vermicular form, and may be used by itself or mixed with any other
material suitable for a stuffing. The apparatus I prefer to employ for pro-
ducing the india-rubber shreds consists of a pair of rollers of different
diameters driven at the same speed, or of a pair of rollers of the same diameter
driven at different speeds. I produce the spiral threads by causing a block of
rubber to rotate against a fixed blade, or by means of a movable blade made
to act upon a fixed block of rubber.
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 the improved
material herein-before described for stuffing seats, cushions, mattrasses, and
other articles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Frederick Henley, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.