IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PINS FOR HAIR, DRESS, JEWELLERY, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Spendlove Desborough, of Noble Street, St. Martin's-
le-Grand, in the City of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PINS FOR HAIR, DRESS, JEWELLERY,
AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 18th March 1862, and dated the 21st September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Spendlove Desborough at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st September 1861.
I, SPENDLOVE DESBOROUGH, of Noble Street, St. Martin's-le-Grand, in the
City of London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PINS FOR HAIR, DRESS, JEWELLERY,
AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing hair, dress, or other pins from
spirally-formed wire in place of the plain, indented, or twisted wire hitherto
employed for this purpose. In carrying out my Invention I prefer to give a
spiral form to the wire used in the manufacture of hair, dress, jewellery, or
other pins, according to my Invention, by first coiling the wire around a
mandril of suitable size in a similar manner to that employed in the manu-
facture of coiled wire springs. The wire so coiled is then extended or drawn
out so as to produce an elongated spiral. The wire thus prepared is cut into
suitable lengths, which are then pointed at each end and bent so as to form

page_text: hair pins, similar to those usually employed for this purpose; or the spirally-
formed wire may be employed for the stems of other dress and ornamental
pins, or for the pins of brooches or other ornaments of dress, such pins being
pointed, headed, and made up in like manner to other dress or ornamental
pins.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Spendlove Desborough in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st March 1862."
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SPENDLOVE
DESBOROUGH, of Noble Street, St. Martin's-le-Grand, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Spendlove Desborough, Her special licence that I, the said
Spendlove Desborough, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Spendlove Desborough, 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 PINS FOR
HAIR, DRESS, JEWELLERY, AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Spendlove Desborough, 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 Inven-
tion, 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 Spendlove Desborough, 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 in manufacturing hair, dress, or other pins from
spirally-formed wire in place of the plain indented or twisted wire hitherto

page_text: employed for this purpose. In carrying out my Invention I prefer to give a
spiral form to the wire used in the manufacture of hair, dress, jewellery,
or other pins, according to my Invention, by first coiling the wire, properly
annealed, around a mandril of suitable size, in a similar manner to that
employed in the manufacture of coiled wire springs. The wire so coiled is
then extended or drawn out so as to produce an elongated spiral. The wire
thus prepared is cut into suitable lengths, which are then pointed at each end
and bent so as to form hair pins, similar to those usually employed for this
purpose; or the spirally-formed wire may be employed for the stems of other
dress and ornamental pins, or for the pins of brooches or other ornaments of
dress, such pins being pointed, headed, and made up in like manner to other
dress or ornamental pins.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into practice I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a length of wire after being coiled around a suitably sized
rod or mandril in a lathe or by other suitable apparatus; and Figure 2 shews
a side and edge view of a hair pin made from such wire after it has been
extended or drawn out to give it a spiral form throughout its length, according
to my Invention; Figures 3 and 4 shew a beaded hair pin and a dress pin
made from wire of the same character; and Figure 5 shews the back view of
a brooch with a pin attached thereto formed of spirally-shaped wire, according
to my Invention, such spirally formed pins being equally applicable to other
ornaments of dress or jewellery.
In witness whereof, I, the said Spendlove Desborough have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of March, in the
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
year
Witness,
SPENDLOVE DESBOROUGH. (L.S.)