IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BULLION WIRE AND METALLIC FINE-DRAWN WIRE
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Romer, of Shipbourne, in the County of
Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
BULLION WIRE AND METALLIC FINE-DRAWN WIRE."
Sealed the 27th May 1863, and dated the 1st December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Romer at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st
December 1862.
I, JOSEPH ROMER, of Shipbourne, in the County of Kent, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
BULLION WIRE AND METALLIC FINE-DRAWN WIRE," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing bullion and other wire, either of
gold, silver, silver gilt, copper gilt, steel, iron, and other inetals, by drawing
them through or between diamonds, rubies, sapphires, topazes, chrysolites,
garnets, or any other oriental or hard stones.
I propose to fix or bed the stones in holders, in such manner that the stones
shall be held in a position very near each other, according to the required
thickness of wire to be drawn. These holders are firmly secured on a frame
or table, and the wire is to be drawn through or between them, whereby it
will acquire the form of the facets or surfaces of the stones held therein. By
these means I can manufacture flat or plate wire, flat and half round wire, or
wire of a square, pentagonal, polygonal, or other section, by subjecting it to

page_text: the operation of drawing between the corresponding indented surfaces of the
stones.
The wire is then suitable to the manufacture of epaulettes, and other orna-
mental portions of military or naval accoutrements, and to a variety of other
useful purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Romer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ROMER, of Shipbourne, in the County of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the. First, day of December, 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 Joseph Romer, Her special licence, that I, the said Joseph Romer, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Romer, 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 MANU-
FACTURE OF BULLION WIRE AND METALLIC FINE-DRAWN WIRE," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Romer, 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 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 Joseph Romer, 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 :-
This Invention consists in manufacturing bullion and other wire, either of
gold, silver, silver gilt, copper gilt, steel, iron, and other metals or alloys, by
drawing them through or between diamonds, rubies, sapphires, topazes,
chrysolites, garnets, or any other oriental or hard stones.

page_text: I fix or bed the stones in holders of metal or other suitable substance, and
when the wire is to be drawn between stones, the holders are to be regulated
in position by any convenient regulating arrangement of screws, slides, or other
well known methods, according to the thickness of wire to be drawn. These
holders are firmly secured on a frame or table, and the wire is to be drawn
through or between them, whereby it will acquire the form of the holes, facets,
or surfaces of the stones held therein.
By these means I manufacture flat or plate wire, flat and half round
wire, or wire of a square, pentagonal, polygonal, or other section, except
circular or round wire, by subjecting it to the operation of drawing between the
corresponding surfaces of the stones.
The wire is then suitable to the manufacture of epaulettes, and other orna-
mental portions of military or naval accoutrements, and to a variety of other
useful purposes.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark in conclusion that what I
claim as my Invention intended to be secured to me by the herein in part
recited Letters Patent is, the improved method of manufacturing bullion wire
and metallic fine drawn wire, other than round wire, substantially in the
manner herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Romer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of May, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three.
5 Witness,
ALEXR. PRINCE,
Office for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
JOSEPH ROMER. (L.S.)