IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING WIRE FABRICS FOR BLINDS, AND OTHER USES
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH,
HILL, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Wire Worker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of May, in the eighth year of Her reign, did, for.
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph
Hill, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Hill, my exors, admors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Hill, my exors, adñors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully,
night make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the, Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING
WIRE FABRICS FOR BLINDS, AND OTHER USES;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso, that I, the said Joseph Hill, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the,
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery, within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto bad, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance, with the said proviso, I, the, said
Joseph Hill, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say:-
My Invention consists, first, of, so operating on woven wire fabrics as to
produce them in a corrugated form, in order to obtain greater stiffness, and
thus to render wire woven fabrics more useful in the making of blinds, and for
other uses.
And, secondly, my Invention consists of submitting woven wire fabrics to a
process of embossing, so as to produce ornamental patterns thereon thus
rendering woven wire fabrics more suitable for the making of ornamental
blinds, and for other uses. And in order that my Invention may be most
fully understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the
means pursued by me.
And, first, as to the manufacture of corrugated woven wire fabrics I cause
woven wire fabrics to be passed between grooved iron rollers, so as to produce
the pattern of corrugation I desire to make. The corrugations I usually make
from half an inch to three-eights of an inch, which I have found to give the
desired stiffness for the purposes of making blinds and other uses, but I do not
confine myself to such dimensions of corrugations. And in order to carry out
the second part of my Invention, I make a metal die of brass or other suitable
material having the ornamental pattern formed thereon in relief, preferring
that no part thereof shall be capable of producing greater relief than to the
extent of one-eighth of an inch; over this I spread a sheet (of about a quarter of
an inch thick of what is called " Vulcanized India-rubber" sold by Messieurs
Macintosh and Company, and then by means of a powerful screw press I cause
the woven wire fabric to be pressed on to the convex die or mould, and I thus
produce the desired embossing of woven wire fabrics, and such embossed wire
fabrics will be found very useful in making ornamented' wire blinds, and for
other purposes; and it will be found that there is great advantage in thus
using vulcanized-india-rubber, as it saves the making of a counter die, and
the same sheet of india-rubber may, as it is plain, be used with different dies.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I would wish it to be understood, that I do not
confine myself to the details herein given, provided the peculiar character of
either part of my Invention be retained; -but what I claim is,-
First, the manufacture of corrugated woven wire fabrics for making blinds
and other uses.
And, secondly, I claim the manufacture of embossed wire fabrics with orna-
mented patterns or devices thereon for making blinds and other uses. And I

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirty-first day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1845, the aforesaid Joseph Hill came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and forty-five.