A NEW OR IMPROVED MANORACORD OF ROPPO CARNE LIEDS TWINS AND MIZI-RANDINGUFACTURE OF ROPES, CORDS, LINES, TWINES, AND MILL-BANDINGS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Turner Wright, of Birmingham, in, the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, and Edwin Payton Wright. of Birmingham,
aforesaid, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
MANORACORD OF ROPPO CARNE LIEDS TWINS AND MIZI-RANDING"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Turner Wright and
Edwin Payton Wright at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 12th December 1856.
We, JOHN TURNER WRIGHT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, and EDWIN PAYTON WRIGHT, of Birmingham, aforesaid, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature. of the Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF ROPES, CORDS, LINES, TWINES, AND MILL-BANDINGS," to
be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in making the threads and strands of which the said
ropes, cords, lines, twines, and mill-bandings are composed in the following
manner. We take a wire, of iron or other metal or alloy, and coil around the
said wire hemp or other fibrous substance, the said hemp or fibrous substance
having been previously twisted into a thread, the said hemp or fibrous
substance covering the wire and lying thereon in a helical or corkscrew-like
direction. The threads thus made we combine into strands, and the strands
into ropes, cords, lines, twines, and mill-bandings, in the usual manner.
We

page_text: do not limit ourselves to the use of any particular number of hemp or fibrous
threads for covering the wire, nor to the use of a single wire, as two or more
wires may be enveloped in the same covering of hemp or fibrous threads. The
essence of our Invention consists in making ropes, cords, lines, twines, and
mill-bandings by combining together threads, each of which said threads is
composed of a wire or wires covered with hemp or other fibrous substance,
the said hemp or other fibrous substance having been twisted into a
thread or line before being coiled in a helical direction around the wire or
wires.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Turner Wright and Edwin Payton Wright in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th June 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JOHN
TURNER WRIGHT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
and EDWIN PAYTON WRIGHT, of Birmingham, aforesaid, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Iler heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Turner Wright and Edwin Payton Wright. Her special licence that
we, the said John Turner Wright and Edwin Payton Wright. our executors.
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we. the said John Turner Wright
and Edwin Payton Wright, our 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 "A NEW
OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF ROPES, CORDS, LINES, TWINES, AND MILL-BANDINGS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Turner Wright
and Edwin Payton Wright, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of
one of us or them, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Turner Wright and Edwin
Payton Wright, 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:
The
Our Invention consisis in making the threads and strands of which ropes,
cords, lines, twines, and. mill-bandings are composed in the following manner :-
We take a wire, of iron or other metal or metallic alloy, and we coil around
the said wire hemp or other fibrous substance, which said hemp or fibrous
substance has been twisted into a thread previous to being coiled around
the wire. The said thread of hemp or other fibrous substance completely
covers the wire lying thereon in a helical or corkscrew-like form.
covered wires or threads thus made are combined into strands, and the
strands into ropes. cords. lines, twines. and mill-bandings. in the usual manner.
Instead of covering the wire with a single thread of hemp or other fibrous
substance, two or more of the hemp or fibrous threads may be employed for
covering the wire, which said hemp or fibrous ihreads lie parallel side by side
on the wire. We do not limit ourselves to the use of a single covering or
layer of hemp or other fibrous substance upon the wire. as two or more layers
may be employed, neither do we limit ourselves to the covering of single wires
with hemp or other fibrous substance, as two or more wires may be enveloped
in the same covering of hemp or other fibrous thread or threads.
The wire which we prefer to employ in carrying our Invention into effect is
iron wire, of a cylindrical figure; but we do not limit ourselves to the said
wire, as wire of any metal or alloy having the requisite tenacity and flexibility
may be employed; or wire covered with any metallic or other covering for the
purpose of preserving it. or wire having other than a cylindrical figure, may be
employed.
We do not think it necessary to describe the machinery by which the wire
may be covered, as the machinery commonly used, and the construction of
which is well known, and which machinery is employed for covering wire for
various purposes, may be employed for covering wire in carrying our Invention
into effect. Neither do we think it necessary to explain the methods by which
wire or wires covered with hemp or fibrous threads may be made into ropes,
cords, lines, twines, and mill-bandings, as the methods ordinarily employed for
making ropes, cords, lines, twines, and mill-bandings of hemp or other fibrous
threads may be employed.
Ilaving now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not
limit ourselves to the precise details herein described, as the same inay be

page_text: varied without departing from the nature of our said Invention; but we claim
as our Invention the new or improved manufacture of ropes, cords, lines,
twines, and mill-bandings herein-before described; that is to say, making ropes.
cords, lines, twines, and mill-bandings by combining together threads, each of
which said threads is composed of a wire or wires covered with hemp or other
fibrous substance, the said hemp or other fibrous substance having been twisted
into a thread or threads before being coiled in a helical direction around the
wire or wires.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Turner Wright and Edwin Payton'
Wright, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.