THE BETTER UTILIZATION OF BESSEMER STEEL RAIL TYDS MHROUGH THEIR CONVERSION INTO STRIPS AND HOOPS."
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Cooke, of Spring Wood House, Grimes-
thorpe, near Sheffield, in the County of York, Manufacturer, for
the Invention of "THE BETTER UTILIZATION OF BESSEMER STEEL RAIL
TYDS MHROUGH THEIR CONVERSION INTO STRIPS AND HOOPS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Cooke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th October 1873.
I, HENRY COOKE, of Spring Wood House, Grimesthorpe, near Sheffield,
in the County of York, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
my said Invention of "THE BETTER UTILIZATION OF BESSEMER STEEL RAIL
ENDS THROUGH THEIR CONVERSION INTO STRIPS AND HOOPs," to be as follows :—
The Invention is designed for the purpose of utilizing the scrap or
ends of Bessemer steel rails by rolling them in flat sections of various
Olengths and widths.

page_text: The improvements consist in taking the ends of the steel rails cut off
or severed from the determined length of rail under manufacture direct
or on reheating to the rolling mill, where after passing through the rolls
of the same they become converted into lengths or strips of hoop metal
to be subsequently employed for the purposes of binding bales of cotton,
woollen or other goods, and also hoops for barrels, butts, tubs, and the
like.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Cooke in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 16th April 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
Cooke, of Spring Wood House, Grimesthorpe, near Sheffield, in the
County of York, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henry Cooke, Her special licence that. I, the
said Henry Cooke, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Henry Cooke, 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, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "THE BETTER UTILIZATION OF BESSEMER
STEEL RAIL ENDS THROUGH THEIR CONVERSION INTO STRIPS AND HOOPS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Cooke, 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 Henry Cooke, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
The Invention is designed for the purpose of utilizing the scrap of all
descriptions of Bessemer steel, such as blooms, ingot ends, rail ends, or
the like.
The improvements consist first in rolling the blooms, ingot ends, rail
ends, or other similar Bessemer steel scrap into billets or bars, after
which direct or on reheating passing such billets or bars between the
rollers of a rolling mill, the action of which converts them into lengths
of hoop metal to be subsequently employed for binding bales of cotton,
woollen or other goods, and also as hoops for encircling barrels, butts,
tubs, and the like.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect, I would wish it to
be distinctly understood in conclusion that I claim the novelty of
utilizing ingot ends, rail ends, or blooms, and every other description of
Bessemer steel scrap by converting the same into hoop metal to be
employed for the purposes of binding bales or boxes of goods or
merchandize, or as hoops for encircling barrels, butts, or tubs, as herein-
before substantially described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Cooke, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
25 Witness,
THOMAS WHEALE,
170, Brunswick Road North,
Sheffield.
HENRY COOKE. (L.S.)