IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HURDLES AND FENCES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Boydell, of 65, Gloucester Crescent, Regent's
Park, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Boydell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
February 1854.
I, JAMES BOYDELL, of 65, Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HURDLES AND FENCES " to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of improvements in the uprights, and also in the
means of fixing the rods or bars to the uprights of hurdles and fences. The
uprights I make of trough iron inlayed with wood, by which great strength
may be obtained, with lightness; and in order to fix uprights to the land, I
make the feet separate, the upper parts being, by preference, of trough iron
inlayed with wood, though solid iron may be used; the uprights are made with
set-offs, or right angle bends, at their lower ends, and they are fixed to the
feet by nails, rivits, or screw bolts. The rods or bars are fixed to the uprights
by having holes in them corresponding with the distance of the uprights,
through which nails, or rivits, or screw bolts are passed, to retain the parts of
the hurdles or fences together.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Boydell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BOYDELL, of 65, Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park, in the County of Middle-
sex, 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 fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Boydell, Her special licence that I, the said James Boydell,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Boydell, 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 THE MANUFACTURE
OF HURDLES AND FENCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
James Boydell, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Boydell, 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):-
This Invention consists of improvements in the uprights, and also in the
means of fixing the rods or bars to the uprights of hurdles and fences. The
uprights I make of trough iron inlaid with wood, by which great strength may
be obtained, with lightness; and in order to fix uprights to the land, I make
the feet separate, the upper parts being, by preference, of trough iron inlaid
with wood, though solid iron may be used. The uprights are made with set-
offs, or right angle bends, at their lower ends, and they are fixed to the feet
by nails, rivits, or screw bolts.
The rods or bars are fixed to the uprights, by having holes in them corre-
sponding with the distance of the uprights, through which nails, rivits, or
screw bolts are passed to retain the parts of the hurdles or fences together.

page_text: us stated the nature of my said invention, I WI
describe the means of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
proceed to
Figure 1 shows a side elevation, and Figure 2, an edge view of hurdles
or fencing, constructed according to my Invention. In the construction of
the uprights, I employ trough iron filled with wood, and the horizontal bars I
prefer to be of twisted bars of iron, thin, as compared with their width, as
was described in the Specification of a Patent granted to me on the Twenty-
first of February, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. The uprights
a, a, of trough iron are closed over at their upper ends, and they are made
separate from their feet, and fixed thereto by rivits, screws, and nuts, or other-
wise; for this purpose, the lengths of trough iron for uprights being cut, the
upper end of each is to be bent over and closed, and the lower end is to be
formed or forged, suitably for fixing to or in separate feet 6; and this may be
done, as shewn at Figures 1 and 2, by riviting, or by screws and nuts; or, as
shown at Figure 3, where the lower end is formed into a spike suitable for
passing through an opening in the foot and into the ground, the hollows of
the uprights a, a, are to be filled with wood, and the horizontal bars are to be
fixed thereto, as is shewn, or by other convenient means.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would have it
understood, that what I claim is, the making of the uprights of hurdles of
trough iron filled with wood, and fifting to separate feet, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Boydell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE.
JAMES BOYDELL. (L.S.)