AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ANVILS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Wright, of Dudley, in the County of Worcester,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ANVILS."
Sealed the 11th November 1859, and dated the 2nd September 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd September 1859.
I, PETER WRIGHT, of Dudley, in the County of Worcester, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ANVILS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to unite the two halves of an anvil without
resorting to the process of welding the said halves together, as described in the
Specification of a Patent granted to me bearing date the Twentieth day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, &
numbered 13,902.
In carrying my Invention into effect, I form the top half or part of the anvil
with a shank on its under side, the said shank being of the same or nearly the
same diameter throughout. After having "steeled " the said top half or part
of the anvil I place it upon the lower half, the shank on the under side of the
upper half, entering a hole or recess of corresponding form and size in the

page_text: . lower half. I then pass a pin or cotter transversely through the lower half
and the shank of the upper half, so as firmly to unite the two halves together.
The bottom half of the anvil may be made of cast iron or malleable iron, or
other suitable metal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
February 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, PETER
WRIGHT, of Dudley, in the County of Worcester, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Peter Wright, Her special licence that I, the said Peter Wright, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter
Wright, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ANVILS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Peter Wright, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Wright, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of my Invention is to unite the two halves of an anvil without
resorting to the process of welding the said halves together.
In carrying my Invention into effect, I make the top part or half of the
anvil in one solid piece. To the under side of the said top part of the anvil I
.

page_text: attach a shank, having the same or nearly the same diameter throughout.
The said shank is made by preference by stamping in a die. The flange,
which is made on the upper end of the shank, is of the exact size of the
middle part of the anvil, and constitutes the said middle part when it is united
to the under side of the top part of the anvil. The said top part of the anvil
and the shank are raised to a welding heat and are placed in a die, the top
half of the anvil being placed upon the flange of the shank. By the action of
a steam or other large hammer the said top part of the anvil and the flange
of the shank are welded together. The top part of the anvil is then steeled
and made ready for fitting the bottom part.
Figure 1, of the accompanying Drawing, represents the top half of the anvil
marked a, after the shank 6 has been welded to it and prepared for fitting the
bottom or corresponding part of the anvil. Figure 2, represents the bottom
or corresponding part marked c, of the anvil, having a hole or socket d, made
therein, the said hole or socket d being made accurately to fit the shank b.
The two parts a and c of the anvil are united by the former being placed
upon the latter, the shank 6 entering the hole or recess d. A pin, cotter, or
rivet is passed transversely through a hole in the part c of the anvil and a
hole in the shank b, and the upper and lower halves of the anvil are thus hel
securely together. The head of the said pin, cotter, or rivet is marked e, in
Figure 4, which said Figure represents a finished anvil mounted upon a stand,
as hercin-after explained. After the top, Figure 1, and the bottom, Figure 2,
have been secured together in the manner already described, the anvil is com-
plete; but I sometimes mount the bottom half of the anvil upon a stand, as
represented in Figure 3. The bottom half c and the stand f, are by
preference cast in one piece, but the stand f may be made separately of cast
or wrought iron, and secured by rivetting or otherwise to the bottom half c.
Figure 4 represents a portable anvil and stand complete.
Although I prefer to make the shank b cylindrical, yet I do not confine
myself to that form, as the said shank may be made so as to be square,
elliptical, or polygonal in section. Neither do I confine myself to auy
particular shape in the stand f, as the said stand may be varied in shape and
still answer the same purpose.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same may
be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention.
But I claim as my Invention the improvement or improvements in the
manufacture of anvils herein-before described and illustrated in the accom-

page_text: panying Drawing, that is to say, joining together the upper and lower
halves of anvils by means of a shank on the under side of the upper half
entering a hole or recess in the lower half, and securing the two halves
together by means of a pin, cotter, or rivet passed transversely through the
lower half and the said shank.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Wright, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-first day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
PETER WRIGHT. (L.S.)