AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WIRE LATTICEWORK
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Bellamy, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Wireworker,, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WIRE LATTICEWORK."
Sealed the 16th March 1860, and dated the 7th January 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Bellamy at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
January 1860.
I, THOMAS BELLAMY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Wire-
worker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WIRE LATTICEWORK," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the use of double or treble wires in the manu-
facture of latticework where a single wire is used in the ordinary manufacture.
In carrying my Invention into effect I take wires, either plain or corrugated,
and form latticework therewith by crossing and interlacing them in any
desired pattern, only instead of crossing and interlacing single wires I employ
double or treble wires, the said double or treble wires being placed parallel
to one another, and in the plane of the latticework; the double or treble
wires may lie close together or may be slightly separated. Latticework con-
structed according to my Invention does not require to be tied or twisted

page_text: at the intersections of the wires; it is very strong and is ornamental in
appearance. My Invention is applicable to latticework made of wire having
a circular or other cross section, or of plain, twisted, or corrugated wire.
:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Bellamy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
July 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BELLANY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Wireworker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Bellamy, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Bellamy,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Bellamy, 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 WIRE LATTICEWORK," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Thomas Bellamy, 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 Thomas Bellamy, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the use of double or treble wires, either twisted or
corrugated, in the manufacture of latticework as hereinafter described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, in place of single wires as used in
the ordinary manufacture...

page_text: In carrying my Invention into effect, I take twisted or corrugated wires, and
form latticework therewith, by crossing and interlacing them in any desired
pattern by the method commonly employed in making latticework, only instead
of crossing and interlacing single wires, I employ double or treble wires placed
parallel or nearly parallel to one another, and in the plane of the lattico-
work. The double or treble wires may lie close together, or may be slightly
separated.
In the Figures of the accompanying Drawing I have represented portions
of latticework made of various patterns according to my Invention, the said
latticework being made of double, twisted, or corrugated wires. In Figure 1
the double wires are marked a, and are crossed and interlaced into the lozenge-
shaped pattern represented, the wires being made to lie close together;
Figure 2 represents a portion of one of the wires a separately; Figure 3
represents another piece of latticework of the same pattern as Figure 1,
excepting that the double wires b are crossed and interlaced closer together
for the purpose of making a smaller pattern as represented. In Figure 3-the
double wires bare slightly separated from one another; Figure 4 represents
another piece of latticework made according to my Invention of double wires,
the said wires being so crossed and interlaced as to form a pattern having
rectangular openings of the shape represented. In the said Figure 4 the
pattern is formed by double wires c, and double cross wires d, the cross wires d
having the positions with respect to each other represented; Figure 5
represents another piece of latticework made according to any Invention, the
pattern being formed of double wires e, e, and cross double wires marked f,
the said wires f having the corrugated form best seen in the separate view on
a larger scale in Figure 6. After the latticework has been manufactured in
the manner before described I galvanize or japan the said latticework, that is,
coat it with zinc or japan by the ordinary processes, by which said galvanizing
or japanning the double or treble wires are joined together where they are in
contact with one another, the said wires being also joined where they interlace
or cross one another. By corrugated wire I mean wire having an undulating or
wave-like figure in one plane, and by twisted wire I mean either wire which
has the figure produced by first coiling it into a helical or corkscrew liko
form, and afterwards pulling out or elongating the coil until the wire is nearly
straightened; or a compound wire made by twisting two single wires together
after the manner in which the strands of a rope are twisted together. When
I make twisted wire by twisting two wires together the compound or twisted
wire produced is used in place of a single wire in practising my Invention.

page_text: The corrugated wire which I employ is corrugated by the machine which is
. commonly employed for corrugating wire; the said machine is well known
and commonly used, and I therefore do not think it necessary to describe it.
Latticework made. of double or treble wires according to my Invention may
be of any desired ornamental pattern, and the said wires may have a circular
or other cross section. Latticework constructed according to my Invention
does not require to be tied or twisted or laced at the intersections of the wires;
it is very strong and is ornamental in appearance.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
-myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated, 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 wiro
Jatticework herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing, that is to say, manufacturing the said latticework of double or
treble wires, either twisted or corrugated, in place of the single wires usually
employed in manufacturing latticework.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bellamy, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
THOMAS BELLAMY. (L.S.)