IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COPPER, BRASS, AND METAL TUBES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Everitt, of Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Tube Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COPPER, BRASS, AND METAL
TUBES."
Sealed the 28th October 1868, and dated the 1st May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Everitt at the Olice of the Commissioners, of Patents, with. his
Petition, on the 1st May 1868. .
I, WILLIAM EDWARD EVERITT, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Tube Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COPPER, BRASS, AND
METAL TUBES," to be as follows, that is to say :-
I take a solid copper rod, ingot, or lump, as the case may be, and
bore, drill, or punch a hole through it of any desired diameter; I then
roll out this solid tube in a heated state upon a plug and rod between
grooved rollers to any desired length, the process of rolling, drawing

page_text: the tube off the plug; I then anneal the tube and further produce it to
the required extent by the operation of drawing upon a draw bench.
For brass and other metal tubes I cast a thick solid tube instead of
boring as before mentioned, and then proceed in the manner above
described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Everitt in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 31st October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD EVERITT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Tube
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first
year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Edward Everitt, Her special license
that I, the said William Edward Everitt, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Everitt, 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 COPPER, BRASS, AND METAL TUBES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Everitt,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 ŸE, that I, the said William Edward Everitt, 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 :-

page_text: I take a solid copper rod, ingot, or lump, as the case may be, and
bore, drill, or punch a hole through it of any desired diameter; I then
roll out this solid tube in a heated state upon a plug and rod between
grooved rollers to any desired length, the process of rolling drawing
the tube off the plug; I then anneal the tube and further produce it to
the required extent by the operation of drawing upon a draw bench.
For brass and other metal tubes I cast a thick solid tube instead of
boring as before mentioned, and then proceed in the manner above
described.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, I claim,
the improvements in the manufacture of copper, brass, and metal tubes,
as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Everitt, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
WILLIAM EDWARD EVERITT. (L.S.)