IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING WIRE AND OTHER RODS OR BARS OF METAL
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bedson, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING
WIRE AND OTHER RODS OR BARS OF METAL."
Sealed the 6th March 1863, and dated the 12th September 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bedson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th September 1862.
I, GEORGE BEDSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ROLLING WIRE AND OTHER RODS OR BARS OF METAL," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in applying "rolls" to a furnace, so that they may.
draw the heated metal from it or through it. When the rods are not of
inconvenient length I place them entirely in the furnace, and their ends are
successively pushed forward, so as to be seized by the "rolls," which then
operate upon them in the usual manner; or, if the rods be of considerable
length, I place them upon a reel at one end of the furnace and the rolls at the
other, through which furnace they are therefore drawn, so that the operations
of heating and rolling are performed simultaneously.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Bedson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th March 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BEDSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Bedson, Her special license that I, the said George Bedson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Georgo
Bedson, 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 ROLLING WIRE
AND OTHER RODS OR BARS OF METAL," upon the condition, amongst others, that
I, the said George Bedson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, 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 samo
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 George Bedson, 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 state-
ment and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in applying rolls to a furnace in such manner that
they may draw the heated metal from it or through it, so that the operations
of heating and rolling are performed simultaneously.
Figs. 1 and 2 represent a furnace and rolls so arranged, the former being
an elevation in section, and the latter a sectional plan view.
The rolls a are displaced alternately at right angles to each other, according
to the Invention for which Letters Patent were granted to me bearing date
July Second, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, No. 1935, and are
supposed to be adapted for rolling wire from puddled bars, but the said "rolls"
inay be of the usual character, if desired, that is, in a series, with their axes
parallel to each other. The fire-bars of the furnace are at b, from whence

page_text: the heat arises and passes over the bed c. The puddled bars or other such
articles, from which the wire rod or bar is to be rolled, are introduced through
the doors d, and placed upon the bed of the furnace, as shewn by the red
lines at e, there they become heated to the required extent, and are then
drawn through a door f, and fed to the first pair of rolls, which seizes them
and passes them onward to the others, so that by the operation of rolling they
are drawn through the furnace, and any required number of puddled bars may
thus successively be operated upon, the attendant pushing them one after
the other to the middle of the furnace, and then drawing them through tho
central door f. In rolling from longer lengths of metal than can be con-
veniently treated as above, I place them on a reel, or otherwise conveniently
dispose them outside the furnace at the back end, and then pass them through
the doorf to the rolls; when, therefore, the rolls are caused to revolve, they
draw the metal through the furnace, and it there becomes heated during its
passage; the said furnace being made of such a length as will impart
sufficient heat, but this may be modified by the speed at which the rolls aro
caused to draw forward the metal.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to bo
understood that I claim as secured to me under the above in part recited
Letters Patent the application of "rolls" to a furnace, so as to draw the
heated metal from it or through it.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bedson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.