IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PAPER WEIGHTS, BOXES, AND OTHER ARTICLES, SO AS TO IMITATE ROULEAUS or COIN
Year: 1872

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Denton Abel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th December 1872.-A communication from abroad by Anne
Amelie Lucas, of Paris, France.
I, CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 20, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
PAPER WEIGHTS, BOXES, AND OTHER ARTICLES, SO AS TO IMITATE ROULEAUS or
COIN," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a method of constructing imitation rouleaus
of coin, and of combining such imitation rouleaus together so as to form
paper weights, and to ornament boxes and other articles. For this
purpose sheet brass or other suitable metal which may be silvered, gilt,
or bronzed, is passed through rollers so as to give it a grooved surface,
the projecting ribs between the grooves being of breadth equivalent to
the thickness of the coin to be imitated, and milled when necessary.
Strips of the sheet so prepared are cut of breadth equivalent to the
length of the rouleau, and of length corresponding to a little less than
its circumference. These strips are bent into a cylindrical form leaving
a longitudinal slot on one side, and at each end of the cylinder so formed

page_text: is inserted a cylindrical piece of wood, the pieces of wood being so short
that a considerable cavity is left in the cylinder between them. Or
instead of using two pieces of wood, one at each end of the cylinder, one
piece may be employed the whole length of the cylinder with a gap cut
out of its middle. Six of the cylinders so formed are grouped round a
seventh short cylinder of wood within a cylindrical mould, all the six
outer cylinders being so placed that the open slots in their circum-
ferences are presented towards the centre of the group.
In the
interstices between the central cylinder and those surrounding it are
inserted small cylindrical rods, which are afterwards to be removed.
The cylinders being thus grouped within the mould, melted lead is
poured into the middle of the group until it fills all the void spaces in
the cylinders; the lead when it sets forms a solid junction of all the
cylinders together and serves to load the group so as to make it available
as a paper weight. The small rods are withdrawn after the lead has set,
and the open space in the centre above the level of the lead is filled with
another short cylinder of wood, glued or otherwise secured to the lead.
The tops of all the cylinders and their lower ends have glued to them
discs of thin metal, stamped so as to imitate the coin which it is
intended to represent, and silvered, gilt, or bronzed accordingly.
Groups of imitation rouleaus formed and combined as above described
may be employed to ornament the sides of boxes and other articles,
presenting their impressed ends to view; or separate imitation rouleaus
may be attached to the sides of boxes and other articles so as to present
their cylindrical peripheries to view, and thus may be represented a very
large mass of coin. For ornamenting exteriors of articles in this manner
no lead need be used, the sheet metal being bent round cylindrical
wooden cores which can be attached by gluing or otherwise to the
articles to which they are applied.