IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH CABLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Hancock, of the West Ham Gutta Percha
Company, West Street, Smithheld, in the City of London, for the
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LETTERS PATENT to Charles Hancock, of the West Ham Gutta Percha
Company, West Street, Smithheld, in the City of London, for the
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
CABLES."
Company, West Street, Smithheld, in the City of London, for the
Invention of
ROVEMENTS IN THE MANCY
MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRICS TELEGRAPH
CABLES."
Sealed the 3rd December 1858, and dated the 5th June 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Hancock at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
June 1858.
I, CHARLES HANCOCK, of the West Ham Gutta Percha Company, West
Street, Smithfield, in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
CABLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the protecting the insulated wire or wires of
submarine and other telegraph cables by encircling or encasing the same in
a rope or other covering manufactured from animal hair, generally giving the
preference to horschair. The principal advantages resulting from the use of
hair for this purpose arise from its peculiar properties of being impervious to

page_text: water, secure from the ravages of the worm, free from the rust and decay
incidental to metal wires, very light in weight, and its great strength and
toughness.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Hancock in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th December 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HANCOCK, of the West Ham Gutta Percha Company, West Street, Smithfield,
in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of June, 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 me, the said
Charles Hancock, Ier special licence that I, the said Charles Hancock, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Hancock, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH CABLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Hancock, 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 Charles Hancock, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the protecting the insulated wire or wires of
submarine or other telegraph cables by encircling or encasing the same in
a rope or other covering manufactured from animal hair, generally giving the
preference to horsehair.
This rope or covering may be made either by

page_text: twisting or braiding, or by any of the means ordinarily adopted in the manu-
facture of such or similar ropes or coverings. The principal advantages
resulting from the use of hair for this purpose arise from its peculiar pro-
perties of being impervious to water, secure from the ravages of the worm,
free from the rust and decay incidental to metal wires, very light in weight,
and its great strength and toughness.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Hancock, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
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Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Jun..
Office for Patents,
CHARLES HANCOCK. (L.S.)
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.