Everything about Elastic Band totally explained
A
rubber band (in some regions known as a
binder,
elastic band,
lackey band, "laggy band" or
gumband) is a short length of
rubber and
latex formed in the shape of a loop.
Such bands are typically used to hold multiple objects together.
The rubber band was patented in
England on
March 17,
1845 by
Stephen Perry.
Manufacturing
The manufacturing process involves extruding the rubber into a long
tube to provide its general shape, putting the tubes on mandrels and curing the rubber with heat, and then slicing it along the width of the tube into little bands.
While other rubber products may use
synthetic rubber, rubber bands are still primarily manufactured using
natural rubber because of its superior elasticity.
The modern rubber band is different from its ancestor at the time of patenting by Stephen Perry in that rubber is now
vulcanized. The vulcanization process makes the rubber more durable and elastic, and therefore makes the rubber band more useful.
Rubber Band Sizes
Measuring
A rubber band has three basic
dimensions:
Length,
width, and
thickness. (See picture.)
A rubber band's length is half its
circumference. Its thickness is the distance from the inner circle to the outer circle.
Lay a rubber band down so that it makes a
square.
The band's width is the height of that band or the square's intersection from the derivative case.
If one imagines a long tube of rubber before it's sliced into rubber bands, the band's width is how far apart the slices are cut.
Rubber Band Size Numbers
A rubber band is given a [quasi-]standard number based on its dimensions.
Generally, rubber bands are numbered from small to large, width first.
Thus, rubber bands numbered 8-19 are all 1/16
inches wide, with length going from 7/8 inches to 3 1/2 inches.
Rubber band numbers 30-34 are for width of 1/8 inches, going again from shorter to longer.
For even longer bands, the numbering starts over for numbers above 100, again starting at width 1/16 inches.
The origin of these size numbers isn't clear and there appears to be some conflict in the "standard" numbers.
For example, one distributor has a size 117 being 1/16 inch wide and a size 127 being 1/8 inch wide.
However, an OfficeMax size 117 is 1/8 inch wide.
A manufacturer has a size 117A (1/16 inch wide) and a 117B (1/8 inch wide).
Another distributor calls them 7AA (1/16 inch wide) and 7A (1/8 inch wide) (but labels them as specialty bands).
| Rubber Band Sizes |
| Size |
Length (in) |
Width (in) |
Thickness (in) |
| 10 |
1.25 |
1/16 |
1/32 |
| 12 |
1.75 |
1/16 |
1/32 |
| 14 |
2 |
1/16 |
1/32 |
| 31 |
2.5 |
1/8 |
1/32 |
| 32 |
3 |
1/8 |
1/32 |
| 33 |
3.5 |
1/8 |
1/32 |
| 61 |
2 |
1/4 |
1/32 |
| 62 |
2.5 |
1/4 |
1/32 |
| 63 |
3 |
1/4 |
1/32 |
| 64 |
3.5 |
1/4 |
1/32 |
| 117 |
7 |
1/16 |
1/32 |
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