IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE AND WIRE RODS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bedson, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Manager of Iron Works, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE AND WIRE RODS."
Séaled the 14th August 1866, and dated the 15th February 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bedson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th February 1866.
I, GEORGE BEDSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Manager of Iron Works, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE AND WIRE RODS," to be
as follows:-
My Invention refers to an improvement upon that machinery for which
Letters Patent have been granted to me, bearing date July 2nd, 1862
(No. 1935) and Sept. 12th, 1862 (No. 2520). As described in the
Specifications of the said Patents the rollers placed with their axes in
pairs at right angles to each other were situate between two side frames or
"housings." According to my present Invention I propose to mount the
said rollers on shafts which extend beyond the frame or "housing," and
the said rollers are therefore on the outside thereof instead of between the
two as above mentioned. The exact position of a roller so as to correspond
with its fellow I adjust by set screws acting laterally.

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 15th August 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BEDSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager of Iron
Works, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
punto me, the said George Bedson, Her special license that I, the said
George Bedson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as 1, the said George 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 'MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE AND WIRE RODS,"
upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said George Bedson,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particu-
larly described 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 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 statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
As
My Invention refers to an improvement upon that machinery for which
Letters Patent have been granted to me, bearing date July Second, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, Number 1935, and September
Twelfth, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, Number 2520.
described in the Specifications of the said Patents the rollers placed with
their axes in pairs at right angles to each other were situate between two
side frames or " housings." According to my present Invention I propose

page_text: to mount the said rollers on shafts which extend beyond the frame or
"housing," and the said rollers are therefore on the outside thereof instead
of between the two as above mentioned. The exact position of a roller
so as to correspond with its fellow I adjust by set screws acting laterally.
The accompanying Drawing represents a top or plan view of the rolling
machine arranged according to my present Invention. The rollers
which are mounted upon the horizontal axes are shewn at a, b, c; the
axes themselves at d, e, f. The vertical axes are at g, h, i, carrying
rollers j, k, l, which act therefore upon the metal at right angles to those
shewn at a, b, c, according to the method described in the Specification of
my former Patents aforesaid. The framework which carries the two sets
of axes is at m, and the standards or "housings" at n, o, and it will be
seen by reference to the Drawing that the two sets of rollers a, b, c and
j, k, l, are on the ends of their axes, which extend beyond the said side
standards or "housings," whereas according to the Specifications of my
former Patents aforesaid the rollers would be situate between the said
standards or "housings" n, o. The several pairs of rollers are geared
together by pinions p, and receive rotatory motion according to my former
Invention by means of an ordinary arrangement of gearing not shewn in
the Drawing. In the standards or " housings" n, o, are mounted blocks 9
capable of sliding therein, and provided with brasses r against which
the axes d, e, f, and g, h, i, run. The blocks are provided with
flanges s, s, which carry set screws u, v, abutting against the standards or
"housings " n, o. When it is desired to adjust a pair of rollers so that the
gro..ve in one shall coincide with the groove in the other, one pair of set
screws is loosened, and the the axis d, together with its roller a, may be
forced forward and fixed in position by the other set screws v. The several
pairs of rollers are adjusted towards each other by screws w passing through
the standards or "housings," and acting against the blocks q. As the
several pairs of rollers and their axes are at right angles to each other the
set screws u, v, only shew as connected to the horizontal shafts, and the
screws w are only seen in connexion with the vertical shafts, but both
series of rollers a, b, c, and j, k, l, are provided with the double
adjustment.
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 be
understood that I claim as secured to me under the above in part recited
Letters Patent, and in reference to such rolling machines as aforesaid,

page_text: firstly, placing the rollers on the outside of the standards or "housings;
secondly, the adjustment of the rollers as illustrated by the set screws u; v.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bedson; have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, in the year of
F
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.