IMPROVEMENTS IN COATED OR COVERED WIRE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George West Royston Pigott, of Halifax, in the
County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COATED OR
COVERED WIRE."
Sealed the 21st August 1868, and dated the 25th February 1868.
1
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George West Royston
Pigott at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 25th February 1868.
I, GEORGE WEST ROYSTON PIGOTT, of Halifax, in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COATED OR COVERED WIRE," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists,―
Firstly. In coating or covering wire with tin or fusible alloy or with
a precipitation of copper from its solution by electrical or other means,
and then glazing or varnishing the said wire with any suitable solution
or liquor of an adhesive and drying nature, so as to form a fibre thereon,
or in glazing or varnishing it in the simple annealed condition as
wearing wire.

page_text: Secondly. In covering wire prepared by the above glazing processes or
any of them with thread or yarn of cotton, silk, or other fibre, either
alone or in combination, enclosing one or more threads or strands of
fibre placed longitudinally with such wire, by which softness and
botter adhesion of the yarn is given to the said covered or coated wire.
Thirdly. In having the wire drawn of an oval or sectoral form and
coated or covered by any one or more of the above processes, whereby
wire is rendered better adapted for various useful and artistic purposes
than heretofore.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George West Royston Pigott in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 25th August 1868. .
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WEST ROYSTON PIGOTT, of Halifax, in the County of York, send
greeting:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-cight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George West Royston Pigott, Her
special licence that I, the said George West Royston Pigott, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George West
Royston Pigott, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COATED OR COVERED WIRE," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said George West Royston Pigott, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said George West Royston Pigott, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists,-
Firstly. In coating or covering wire with tin or fusible alloy or with
a precipitation of copper from its solution by electrical or other means,
and then glazing or varnishing the said wire with any suitable solution
or liquor of an adhesive and drying nature, so as to form a film thereon,
or in glazing or varnishing it in the simple annealed condition, as
weaving wire.
Secondly. In covering wire prepared by the above glazing processes
or any of them with thread or yarn of cotton, silk, or other fibre, either
alone or in combination, enclosing one or more threads or strands of
fibre placed longitudinally with such wire, by which softness and
better adhesion of the yarn is given to the said covered or coated wire.
Thirdly. In having the wire drawn of an oval or sectoral form and
coated or covered by any one or more of the above processes, whereby
wire is rendered better adapted for various useful and artistic purposes
than heretofore.
In the performing of this my said Invention, or carrying the same into
practical effect, I may adopt any of the ordinary or well-known means
or apparatus, or I may employ any other suitable means or appliances
for the purpose of coating or covering wire with any of the solutions,
liquors, or other matters, or for the formation of the wire, or for effecting
the combination, as herein set forth, as the means or apparatus to be
employed may vary according to particular circumstances and con-
ditions.
Having thus described. the nature and objects of the aforesaid
Invention, I would have it understood that I do not confine or restrict
myself to any particular means or apparatus to be employed, or the
method of effecting the objects and purpose of this Invention, but
claim as the Invention hereby secured to me,-
Firstly. The coating or covering wire with tin, fusible alloy, or
copper, and then glazing or varnishing it with any solution or liquor
of an adhesive and drying nature, or in glazing or varnishing it in its
simple annealed condition with such solution or liquor.

page_text: Secondly. The covering wire prepared by the above or any of the
above processes with yarn of cotton, silk, or other fibre, either alone
or with one or more longitudinal strands of fibre or yarn.
Thirdly. The drawing wire of an oval or sectoral form to be coated
with or by any of the above processes.
In witness whereof, I, the said George West Royston Pigott, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the within-named George
West Royston Pigott, in the
presence of
E. T. HUGHES,
G. W. ROYSTON PIGOTT. (L.S.)
123, Chancery Lane,
London.