AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PULLEY RODS FOR CURTAINS COMMONLY CALLED FRENCH PULLEY RODS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Walter Winfield, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Merchant and Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PULLEY RODS
FOR CURTAINS COMMONLY CALLED FRENCH PULLEY RODS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Walter Winfield
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th October 1861.
I, ROBERT WALTER WINFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Merchant and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PULLEY
RODS FOR CURTAINS, COMMONLY CALLED FRENCH PULLEY RODS," to be as follows:-
In the ordinary manufacture of pulley rods for curtains, commonly called
French pulley rods, the said pulley rods are made of rods of iron cased with
brass, the ends of the said pulley rods being made of brass.
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My Invention consists in making the said pulley rods of tubes of wrought
iron without any casing of brass. I make the ends of the said pulley rods
of the kind of iron commonly called malleable iron, that is, of annealed cast
iron. Pulley rods made according to my Invention are light and strong; they
may be lacquered or bronzed, or otherwise ornamented or finished.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Walter Winfield in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 24th April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
WALTER WINFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant and
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, 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 Robert Walter Winfield, Her special licence that I, the said
Robert Walter Winfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Robert Walter Winfield, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
PULLEY RODS FOR CURTAINS, COMMONLY CALLED FRENCH PULLEY RODS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Walter Winfield, 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 Robert Walter Winfield, 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:
In the ordinary manufacture of pulley rods for curtains commonly called
French pulley rods, the said pulley rods are made partly of brass, and partly
of iron or wood; the ends of the pulley rods in which the pulleys or rollers
work being made of brass, and the cylindrical rod being made of iron with a
casing of brass or of wood.
In manufacturing pulley rods for curtains, or French pulley rods according
to my Invention, I employ only iron.. I make the ends of the pulley rod, that
is to say, those parts of the pulley rod in which the pulleys or rollers work, of

page_text: the kind of iron commonly called malleable iron, or the kind of cast iron
which can be annealed or made malleable by being heated in contact with
powdered hematite or peroxide of iron.
I make the rod or cylindrical portion of the pulley rod of a tube or hollow
cylinder of wrought iron without any casing of brass. I connect the tubular
portion or rod with the ends in the ordinary manner, that is to say, by a
transverse pin and solder. The pulleys or rollers are fixed in the pulley rod
ends in the usual manner.
Pulley rods made according to my Invention, may be lacquered or bronzed,
or otherwise ornamented or finished.
Pulley rods made according to my Invention are both light and strong,
and are economical in manufacture.
The hollow cylinders or tubes of wrought iron, and the cast malleable iron
pulley rod ends which I employ, are made by the ordinary well-known processes
which constitute no part of my Invention, and I therefore do not consider it
necessary to describe the said processes.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim as
my said Invention the improvement or improvements in the manufacture of
pulley rods for curtains, commonly called French pulley rods herein-before
described, that is to say, making the said pulley rods partly of wrought iron,
and partly of malleable cast iron as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Walter Winfield, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
ROBERT WALTER WINFIELD. (L.S.)
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw.