Augustine Sackett

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Augustine Sackett (born March 24, 1841 in Connecticut , † May 10, 1914 ) was an American entrepreneur and inventor.

Private life

Sackett was born to Homer Sacket and Flora Skiff. In 1850, according to the census, he lived with his parents in Warren . During the American Civil War he served as an assistant engineer in the Navy. In the 1870 census he was registered as a paper manufacturer in Lee . On June 8, 1871, he married Charlotte Georgiana Rice (* 1848) in their parent town Lee, where her father Abner Rice (1820-1908) was the school director. The family later moved to New York with their two daughters Edith and Margaret , where Augustine Sackett's widow continued to live after his death.

plant

Sackett received his technical training at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . During the industrial boom in the USA between 1870 and 1890, Sackett was an inventor and entrepreneur. In 1894, he was granted the patent for an Inside Wall Covering panel , which consisted of several layers of cardboard and plaster. After a number of entrepreneurial setbacks, success was evident in the construction of several plants, in which the production numbers of plasterboard with the dimensions 32 × 36 inches were increased from 225,000 in 1889 to over 7 million in 1909. Augustine Sackett later became director at US-Gypsum, which had taken over the production facilities.

The patent specification

United States Patent Office: Inventor: Augustine Sackett. Interior wall coverings, Pat. No. 520,123, patented May 22, 1894. The contents of the invention is the production of sheets for covering of domestic interior walls to replace the current use of wooden boards with-applied plaster . The plaster of paris is spread out on a thin layer of paper and so many layers are arranged on top of each other that a board of the required thickness can be produced.

literature

  • David Jenkins: The History of BPB Industries. BPB Industries, London 1973, ISBN 0-9502572-0-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on The Sackett Family Association
personal data
SURNAME Sackett, Augustine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1914