IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REEDS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Frederick Bateman, of Low Moor, near Bradford,
in the County of York, Card Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REEDS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 15th October 1878, and dated the 18th April 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Frederick Bateman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th April 1878.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BATEMAN, of Low Moor, near Bradford, in the County of
York, Card Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REEDS FOR
WEAVING."
This Invention consists in the application of hardened and tempered steel wire
(flattened) for the manufacture of reeds (used in weaving).
The steel wire after having been flattened is hardened and tempered in the ordi-
nary manner, then polished, and is ready to be used on the reed-making machine in
the same manner as iron-wire is used on the same machine. There is no novelty in
using steel wire in its ordinary or soft state for such a purpose; but I claim the use of
flattened steel wire, hardened and tempered, for the manufacture of reeds (also the
use of reeds made of hardened and tempered steel wire). The advantages gained
are greater durability, also a slight amount of elasticity, and that finer or thinner
dents can be employed having greater strength and durability than the ordinary
iron or soft steel wire slay, at present in use, thereby allowing more space for the
warp thread between the dents, facilitating greatly the weaving of manufactured
goods.
Steel in its soft and natural state has been used before for the purposes herein
named, but my improvement consists in the use of hardened and tempered steel
for such purposes, which is novel and of great public utility.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Frederick Bateman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th October 1878.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BATEMAN, of Low Moor, near Bradford, in the County of
York, Card Manufacturer. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REEDS FOR
WEAVING."
This Invention consists in the application of hardened and tempered steel wire,
flattened for the manufacture of reeds used in weaving.
The steel wire after having been flattened is hardened and tempered in the ordi-
nary manner, after which it is polished ready to be used by the reed-making
machine for the manufacture of reeds, in the same manner as iron wire is used in
the said machine for the said purpose. There is no novelty in using steel wire in
its ordinary soft or natural state for the purposes herein named, but my improve-
ment consists in the use of flattened steel wire, hardened and tempered for the
manufacture of reeds used for weaving, and the advantages gained by the use of
steel thus manipulated are greater durability, a greater amount of elasticity to the
wire when fixed in the reed, and that finer or thinner dent can be employed,
having greater strength and more durability than when ordinary iron or soft steel
wire is used; thus by the use of hardened steel wire a stronger reed is obtained,
and more space is allowed for the warp between the dents, which greatly facilitates
the weaving of manufactured goods.
Having thus described my Invention I wish it to be distinctly understood that
I do not claim the use of soft steel wire for the purposes herein-before described,
but that what I believe to be novel and original, and clafm as the Invention secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the use of flattened
steel wire that is hardened and tempered for the manufacture of reeds used for
weaving.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Frederick Bateman, have hereunto set
iny hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BATEMAN. (L.S.)
Witness,
JOHN WAUGH,
Engineering and Patent Office,
Bradford,
Yorks.