IMPROVEMENTS' IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RODS, WIRE, NAILS, AND Tubes
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Parkes and Henry Parkes, of Birming-
ham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS' IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RODS,
WIRE, NAILS, AND Tubes."**
Sealed the 16th March 1858 and dated the 1st January 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Parkes and
Henry Parkes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 1st January 1858.
We, ALEXANDER PARKES and HENRY PARKES, of Birmingham, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE.
OF RODS, WIRE, NAILS, AND TUBES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of rods,
wire, nails, and tubes. For these purposes copper, or copper and its alloys,
with zinc, are combined with such a quantity of phosphorous, or with the
metal manganese as will admit of the compound being rolled and worked.hot
or cold into rods, wire, nails, and tubes, using about eight ounces or less of
phosphorous or metal manganese in each hundred lbs. of the compound.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Parkes and Henry Parkes in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 22nd June 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALEXANDER
PARKES and HENRY PARKES, of Birmingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most. Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Alexander Parkes and Henry Parkes, Her special licence that we, the
said Alexander Parkes and Henry Parkes, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Alexander Parkes and Henry Parkes,
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF RODS, WIRE, NAILS, AND TUBES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Alexander Parkes and Henry Parkes, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Parkes, on behalf of myself
and the said Henry Parkes, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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:
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of rods,
wire, nails, and tubes. For these purposes copper, or copper and its alloys,
with zinc, are combined with such a quantity of phosphorous, or with the
metal manganese, as will admit of the compound being rolled and worked
hot or cold into rods, wire, nails, and tubes, using about eight ounces or less
of phosphorous or metal manganese, in each hundred lbs. of the compound.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, we will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: In the Specification of a Patent granted to us, and dated the 2nd day of
December, 1857, we have described the use of phosphorous in producing
compound metals when copper, or copper and alloys, with zinc, are manu-
factured. Now, our present improvements consist in applying such compound
metals when drawing wire and tubes, and also when rolling or forming nail
metal and rods. For the purpose of drawing into tubes or wire, we prefer
that the proportion of phosphorous should be somewhat less than what was
described in our said former Specification, but this is not essential, as tubes
and wire may be drawn from such compound metals when using the same or
even a larger proportion than what is recommended by us as being the best
for sheathing metal, whether of copper and phosphorous, or copper and zinc
with phosphorous.
The compound metal, whether containing phosphorous or when containing
metal manganese, as described in our former Patent, is cast into ingots, and
the manufacture of it into tubes and wire is in each case performed in like
manner to what has been practised when making tubes and wire of copper, or
copper alloyed with zinc.
When making nail metal or rods, the compound metals are manufactured
as described in our said former Specification, and the making of nails and rods
is in each case to be performed in like manner to what has heretofore been
the practice, by casting or making nails from sheets or rods of copper, or of
copper and its alloys with zinc."
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Parkes, bave hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
year of our
Witness,
GEO. PITT.
ALEXANDER PARKES. (L.S.)