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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Ivo on April 01, 2008, 02:50:20 PM
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Does anyone recognise a pepper n salt? There is a little rubber stopper underneath marked
SUBA-SEAL
PAT NO.469982 31
Not sure if it refers to UK or US patent....
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Probably UK, number doesn't seem right for US. Too old to check via online DB. Suba-Seal the trademark seems to belong to William Freeman Ltd of Barnsley, Yorkshire,
"Class 21:Small domestic utensils and containers (not of precious metal or coated therewith); kneeling pads for domestic use; draining boards and hot water bottles."
There are other rubber applications, mostly by the same company. First filled as a trademark in 1966 and still current
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US pat no 469982 refers to a buckle (filed 1891) so not that, Ivo.
Incidentally, has anyone else found this yet? Google patent search http://www.google.com/patents seems to be mainly US patents at the moment and still in beta, but could be useful. :)
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... Suba-Seal the trademark seems to belong to William Freeman Ltd of Barnsley, Yorkshire,
"Class 21:Small domestic utensils and containers (not of precious metal or coated therewith); kneeling pads for domestic use; draining boards and hot water bottles."
There are other rubber applications, mostly by the same company. First filed as a trademark in 1966 and still current.
A Barnsley glassworks, perhaps? Unfortunately the finish is not what you would expect from a Barnsley manufactory. Looks to me possibly early Habitat (founded by Terence Conran in 1964, specialising in simple uncluttered design with a very tight control on costs).
Bernard C. 8)
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Probably assembled and packed in the UK. I recall having a wooden S+P with a Suba-seal seal in the late 1970s. I reckon you are looking at 1970s possibly 1980s. I suspect the seal is a red herring re place of glass origin.
You can search both the UK and US government patent and trademark bases, but only as far back as they are digitised. When I was abstracting patents in the 1980s the US ones were all in the 1,000,000s
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Glass-Study is including all Class 56 patent abstracts from 1855-1900.
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which won't be much use for little rubber seals. Much better than the plastic ones that superseded them. I reckon Ivo's S+P dates to between about 1965 and 1985, purely on the basis of the seal
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One is in reasonable nick, the other is brown and crumbly so probably toward the earlier years. And the design leans on Wirkkala, so sixties would be feasible.
@ Bernard: unsure of how to read you ; what finish would you expect from a Barnsley glassworks - top or crap?
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... the other is brown and crumbly ...
Salt corrosion.
... Bernard: unsure of how to read you ; what finish would you expect from a Barnsley glassworks - top or crap?
Top.
Bernard C. 8)