IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING AND COMBINED ROLLING AND DRAWING WIRE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Walton, of the Haughton Dale Mills,
Denton, in the County of Lancaster, Wire Card Manufacturer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING AND COMBINED ROLLING AND
DRAWING WIRE."
Scaled the 1st April 1873, and dated the 28th January 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Walton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
.28th January 1873.
I, WILLIAM WALTON, of the Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, in the
County of Lancaster, Wire Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING AND COMBINED
ROLLING AND DRAWING WIRE," to be as follows :—

page_text: One mode of performing my Invention consists in making curved or
angular chamfers in the edges of two rollers, and in applying a third
plain roller to close the space left by the chamfers in the two other
rollers.
The round or other shaped wire to be rolled is fed into the space left 5
by the three rollers, and is rolled into the section required, namely, with
two curved or flat sides and a flat base, or the third roller may have a
curved or other shaped groove, where it closes the opening left by the
chamfers in the two other rollers.
Another mode of performing my Invention consists in making curved 1
or angular chamfers in the edges of two rollers, and in making a third
roller with its circumference fitting partly into the space left by the
chamfers of the two other rollers, the round or other shaped wire to be
rolled is fed into the space left by the above-named chamfers in the two
rollers and the edge of the third roller, and is compressed into the angular 1
or curved section left by the said space.
My improvements in combined rolling and drawing wire consist in
chamfering the edges of the two rollers as above described, and closing
the space by a stationary roller or suitably shaped block; the round or
other shaped wire to be rolled is fed into the space left between the 2
rollers and block, and is simultaneously rolled and drawn to the section
required.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WALTON, of the Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, in the County of Lan- 3(
caster, Wire Card Manufacturer, send greeting.

page_text: .
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and graut unto me, the said William Walton, Her special licence that I,
the said William Walton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said William Walton, 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, usc, excrcise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ircland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING AND COMBINED
ROLLING AND DRAWING WIRE," upon thc condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Walton, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and scals, 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
Tattan Dedané

page_text: of April, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, No. 1105, to be
used for wire cards or for other purposes.
a, a, are a pair of ordinary flattening or other rollers, in the edges of
which, curved or angular chamfers are made, and is the third roller
which is applied to or pressed against the edges of the rollers a, a, to
close the space left by the chamfers. The round or other shaped wire
to be rolled is fed into the space left by the three rollers, and is rolled
into the section required, namely, with two curved or flat sides and a flat
base, or the third roller may have a curved or other shaped groove,
where it closes the opening left by the chamfers in the two rollers a, as
shown in Fig. 2.
b
Another mode of performing my Invention consists in making curved
or angular chamfers in the edges of two rollers, and in making a third
roller with its circumference fitting partly into the space left by the
chamfers of the two other rollers, as shown in Fig. 3. The round or
other shaped wire to be rolled is fed into the space left by the above-
named chamfers in the two rollers a and the edge of the third roller 6,
and is compressed into the angular or curved section left by the said
space.
Fig. represents a modification of my Invention. In this casc I
mount a disc c on the axle of one of the rollers a; this disc closes the
opening left by the chamfers in the edges of the said rollers, and it is
pressed against the ends of the rollers a by the roller b; this arrangement
produces a wire of the same section as that produced by the combination
of rollers shown in Fig. 1.
My improvements in combined rolling and drawing wire is shown in
Fig. 5, and it consists in chamfering the edges of the two rollers a, as
above described, and closing the space by a stationary roller or suitably
shaped block d. The round or other shaped wire to be rolled is fed into
the space left between the rollers and block, and is simultaneously rolled
and drawn to the section required.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the
manner of performing the same, I declare that I claim,-
First Rolling wire for wire cards or other purposes by the combined
action of three rollers, as shewn and described.

page_text: And, secondly. Manufacturing wire for wire cards and other purposes
by the combined action of rollers and blocks, as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Walton, have hereto sct
my hand and scal, this Twenty-fifth day of July One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.