National Museum of American History
Patent Model for the Manufacture of Rubber Fabrics
Goodyear, Charles · ca 1844
In 1844 Charles Goodyear of New York, New York received a patent for a machine used for the manufacturing of corrugated or shirred rubber fabrics. Rubber strips were sandwiched between fabric, stretched and pressed between two rollers, one calendared, creating a rubber impregnated cloth.
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