Drawings on cover of U.S. patent 1,144,078, (duckpin) "Bowling Pin" in which "a band of rubber or other resilient material 11" is placed "in an annular peripheral groove or channel 10". Patent may be related to "rubber band duckpins". See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckpin_bowling" class="extiw" title="w:Duckpin bowling">w:Duckpin bowling</a>
<br>Yellow shading was added to version 2 to emphasize the "band of rubber or other resilient material 11"
The United States of America, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office publishing the June 22, 1915 patent of R. E. Stanley.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US1144078A">https://patents.google.com/patent/US1144078A</a> (Google patents)