IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ROLLING WIRE RODS AND WIRE
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bedson, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Manager of Iron Works, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ROLLING WIRE RODS AND WIRE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bedson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th September
1864.
I, GEORGE BEDSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager of
Iron Works, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR ROLLING WIRE RODS AND WIRE," to be
as follows:-
My Invention refers to improvements upon a Patent granted to me, dated
July 2nd, 1862, No. 1935.
The first improvement I propose relates to the guides which are placed
between the rollers, and consists in forming the said guides in two or more.
portions which open to receive the rod, and then contract to the necessary
gauge so as to prevent the rod or wire from turning in the guides. Also in
reference to the said guides, I propose to form perforations in them for the
purpose of allowing scale or detached pieces of metal to fall through.

page_text: Also I propose to form the guides in two or more parts, whereby they may
be removed for the purpose of adapting others.
Also I confine the tops or other sides of the said guides by clips, springs, or
other binding apparatus which will give way should an undue obstruction take
place.
According to the arrangement specified under my former Patent aforesaid
the whole operation of reducing the wire was performed continuously in one
machine; I now propose in some cases to reduce the metal to a certain extent,
and then to pass it through scrapers, and after that to finish the drawing
down with rollers, the whole being effected continuously while the metal is
hot; or I effect the first reduction, dress off the scale or other roughness
by hand or otherwise, and then heat the metal again for being further
reduced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Bedson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th
March 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BEDSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager of Iron Works,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Bedson, Her special license that 1, the said George Bedson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Bedson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, .an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING
WIRE RODS AND WIRE," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said
George Bedson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Bedson, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
My Invention refers to improvements upon a Patent granted to me, and
dated Second July, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, No. 1935.
The first improvement I propose relates to the guides which are placed
between two pairs of the rollers, and which receive the rod or wire so as to
conduct it from one pair of such rollers to another pair, and consists, firstly, in
forming perforations in the said guides for the purpose of allowing scales or
detached pieces of metal to fall through.
Secondly, in forming the guides in two or more portions, whereby they may
be readily removed for the purpose of adapting others.
Thirdly, in confining the tops or other sides of the said guides by clips,
springs, or other binding apparatus which will give way should an undue
obstruction take place.
Fourthly, in performing the rolling described under my former Patent
aforesaid in two or more operations instead of continuously in one machine,
and effecting a scraping of the metal between such rolling operations.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 represent my improved guide
detached in side view; Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 8 an end view thereof;
Fig. 4 represents two pairs of rollers mounted according to my former improve-
ments aforesaid, with the guide adapted between them, this last-mentioned
Fig. being upon a smaller scale than the others.
The bracket which carries the guide is shown at a attached to the roller
framework b. Upon this bracket is placed one half c of the guide, the other
half d being adapted to the top thereof, and the two portions are held together
by clamps e, which have a bearing at their lower ends against the bracket a,
and project over the top guide d at their upper ends, the whole being
clamped together by wedges f. The upper and lower portions c, d, of the
guide are furnished with apertures g, h, which pass through them in a vertical
direction, and at i, k, are openings in a horizontal direction, the bracket a
being formed with spaces at those situations so as to leave the openings i, k,
free. The guide has been described as formed in two parts c, d, placed the
one above the other, but each of these parts is also formed in two portions,
the dotted angular lines l, m, shewing their junction, and each top part is held
down by the clamps e and wedges fabove mentioned. During the operation
of rolling any scale or detached pieces of metal will be at liberty to pass away
through the openings g, h, i, k, and should any undue obstruction take place,

page_text: then the clamps e, or one of them, will give way and release the top guide, and
an inferior part only of the machine will be broken. When it is desired to
remove a guide for the purpose of renewal or for adapting another form or
size, the clamps c are taken off, the part d* may then be lifted from the other
part d, which may subsequently be removed by sliding it in the first instance
away from the rollers, and the same removal may be effected in reference to
the lower portions of the guide. It is for this reason that the angular
junctions l, m, are adopted. The guides are prevented from moving longi-
tudinally by lugs o projecting into recesses formed in the bracket a.
.
According to the arrangement specified under my former Patent aforesaid
the whole operation of rolling from the billet to the finished wire was per-
formed continuously in one machine; according to my present Invention I
reduce the metal partially by causing it to pass through a portion of the whole
şeries of rollers, at the termination of which portion I apply scrapers, through
which, the wire passes before it enters the first of the remaining rollers, which
then finish the drawing down. This may be done continuously while the metal
is hot; or I effect the first reduction above mentioned, dress off the scale or
other roughness by hand or otherwise, and then heat the metal again for being
further reduced.
..
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be under-
stood that I claim as secured to me under the above in part recited Letters
Patent,―
Firstly, forming perforations in the guides for the passage of scale or other
detached particles of metal.
Secondly, forming the guides in two or more portions for facility of removal.
Thirdly, forming the guides in two or more portions, which are held together
by clamps, springs, or other binding apparatus which will yield to undue
pressure.
Fourthly, performing the operation of such rolling as that above referred to
at two operations, with an intermediate operation of scraping.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bedson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
GEORGE BEDSON. (L.s.)