IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON GATES AND FENCES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Peyton, of the Bordesley Works, Birmingham,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON GATES
AND FENCES"
Sealed the 29th May 1855, and dated the 2nd April 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Peyton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
April 1855.
I, RICHARD PEYTON, of the Bordesley Works, Birmingham, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
IRON GATES AND FENCES" to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object means of manufacturing iron gates and
fences with ornamental parts more conveniently and at less cost than by the
means now in use; and the Invention consists of casting the ornamental
portions in malleable cast iron, and rendering the same malleable, as is well
understood; or by casting such parts in ordinary cast iron and annealing the
same, as is well.understood; and combining such ornamental castings with the
parts of the wrought or cast iron frames of gates and fences by further metal
castings to attach the parts together, or by rivets, or by passing parts of the
framing through loops or openings in the ornamental castings.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Peyton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
PEYTON, of the Bordesley Works, Birmingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Peyton, Her special licence that I, the said Richard Peyton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Richard Peyton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 MANUFACTURE OF IRON GATES AND FENCES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Richard Peyton, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, 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 Richard Peytou, 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):-
The Invention has for its object means of manufacturing iron gates and
fences with ornamental parts more conveniently and at less cost than by the
means now in use; and the Invention consists of casting the ornamental
portions in malleable cast iron, and rendering the same malleable, as is well
understood; or by casting such parts in ordinary cast iron and annealing the
same, as is well understood, and combining such ornamental castings with the
parts of the wrought or cast iron frames of gates and fences by further metal
castings to attach the parts together.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
In constructing a gate or fences, or a portion of a fence, the wrought-iron
bars or rods to compose it are to be placed together into the form desired, and

page_text: where the parts come together, a mould, by preference of sand or loam, is made
so as to produce a casting of iron thereon, either of a plain or ornamental
character.
I would remark that the process of casting iron on wrought iron for various
purposes is well understood, and, separately, is not claimed by me as of my
Invention; but my improvements consist of employing such process for the
purposes of constructing gates or fences partly of wrought iron, in place of the
means at present employed, for connecting the separate parts of a gate or fence
made partly of wrought iron. For making these cast-iron connections I either
employ malleable cast iron or ordinary cast iron. If I use malleable cast
iron, then I cause such connections to be rendered malleable in the ordinary
mauner, as is well understood, when using malleable cast iron for the purposes;
and when I employ ordinary cast iron for the castings I cause the same to be
annealed, as is well understood. In place of making the castings in conjunc-
tion with the wrought-iron parts of a gate, or of a fencing, or part of a fencing,
I make the castings of the forms desired first, so that they may receive the
ends and other parts of the wrought-iron rods or bars into them, and then,
having framed the parts together, I run in fluid cast iron into the spaces
between the wrought iron and the connecting pieces of cast iron. In these
cases also I render the cast connections malleable, or anneal them, according
as they are formed malleable or ordinary cast iron. By these means not
only may wrought-iron fencesbe made more cheaply, but a greater opportunity
is afforded the manufacturer for obtaining ornamental gates and fences at a
comparatively cheap cost.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Peyton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
RICHARD PEYTON. (L.S.)