IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR METHOD OF APPLYING MAGNETISM FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Penman Lyon, of 52, Ellington Street,
Barnsbury, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR METHOD OF APPLYING MAGNETISM FOR
CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 24th November 1874, and dated the 5th Juné 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Penman Lyon
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at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 5th June 1874.
I, WILLIAM PENMAN LYON, of 52, Ellington Street, Barnsbury, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR METHOD OF APPLYING
MAGNETISM FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object the manufacture of woollen, cotton,
linen, silk, or other fabrics containing the means of producing magnetic
currents, which fabrics may be made into garments or appliances to be
worn about the body; and may also be fitted into chairs, couches, and
other articles; and may be employed for animals and plants.
And my Invention consists in the manufacture of a fabric containing
short magnetised tubes or beads of steel or other suitable metal, which

page_text: tubes may be of any suitable sectional form and thickness and of
various lengths. These tubes are either strung on to the warp or the
weft threads and then woven into the fabric, or they are fixed by hand
on to the fabric after it has been woven.
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The tubes may be of any form in the cross section, so as not to
interfere with their being woven or knitted into the fabric of which
they are to form part. They may also be formed with a longitudinal
slit, if preferred, for greater convenience in threading. The said tubes
may be magnetised as required either before or after weaving them into
the fabric.
In manufacturing the fabric the said tubes are separately strung on
some of the warp threads at suitable intervals apart, and the weaving is
then completed in the ordinary manner.
The threads on which the tubes have been strung may if required be
thickened by means of varnish or gummy material in the interstices
between the tubes, in order that the threads at such parts may be of
equal thickness with the tubes and prevent any obstruction to the
passage of the threads through the healds and the reed.
In some cases the tubes may be strung on some of the weft threads
instead of on warp threads, and in such cases two shuttles may be¨
employed, one for the threads with the tubes on them, and the other for
the remaining threads. The weaving will then be effected by causing
any required number of plain threads to intervene between the threads
with tubes on them. If necessary, these latter threads may be
thickened in the interstices between the tubes. The fabric thus pro-1
duced is light and flexible, and containing magnetic tubes adapted to
convey magnetic currents, and may be made into garments or other
appliances as required. The said tubes may be protected from oxidation
or rust by gilding them, or by coating them with varnish or gummy
material, or covering them with oiled silk or other suitable waterproof
material, or with tin or other foil.
Instead of steel tubes as above stated, a composition may be applied
to the warp or weft threads, consisting of steel or iron filings, or oxide
of steel or iron, or minute portions of these or other magnetisable metals
mixed with a gummy or glutinous substance.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Penman Lyon in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PENMAN LYON, of 52, Ellington Street, Barnsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Penman Lyon, Her special
licence, that I, 'the said William Penman Lyon, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Penman
Lyon, 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 In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR METHOD OF APPLYING
MAGNETISM FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Penman Lyon, 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 William Penman Lyon, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say):-
My Invention of “ Improvements in the Means or Method of Apply-
ing Magnetism for Curative and other Purposes," has for its object the .
manufacture, preparation, or arrangement of woollen, cotton, linen,
silk, felt, or other fabrics (or combinations of such fabrics with or with.

page_text: out other materials), such fabrics containing the means of producing
magnetic currents. These magnetic currents are intended to be pro-
duced in such a manner as to adapt them for the cure of various
ailments and to give them more varying degrees of potency than have
hitherto been attained, in order to suit particular ailments and con-
stitutions.
The modes of incorporating the magnets with the fabrics or
arranging them therein, admit of the magnetising power or influence
being applied either more directly and with more concentrated force to
an effected part, or more diffusively over a larger, surface, as may be
required. The said fabrics may be made or fitted into garments,
trusses, bandages, or other appliances to be worn about the body, and
they may also be made or fitted into gloves, mitts, cuffs, socks, stock-
ings, and other articles of hosiery; and they may also be fitted into
chairs, couches, and other articles; and may be employed for animals and
plants.
And my Invention consists in the manufacture of a fabric containing
short magnetised tubes or beads of steel or other suitable metal, which
tubes or beads may be of any suitable sectional form and thickness and
of various lengths.
Instead of tubes short pieces of wire may be used, such wire being
drawn either round or in other suitable sectional form, or rolled flat,
and the said pieces of wire may be formed with eyes or holes at each end
and also in the middle if required. These tubes, beads, or wires, are
either strung on to the warp or weft threads and then woven into the
fabric, or they are fixed by hand on to the fabric after it has been
woven or otherwise prepared.
The tubes, beads, or wires, may be of any form in the cross section,
so as not to interfere with their being woven, or knitted, or wrought
into, or fixed on to the fabric of which they are to form part; they may
also be formed with a longitudinal slit, if preferred, for greater con-
venience in threading. The said tubes, beads, or wires may be magne-
tised as required either before or after weaving them into or fixing them
on to the fabric.
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In manufacturing the fabric the said tubes, beads, or wires, are
separately strung on some of the warp threads at suitable intervals
apart, and the weaving is then completed in the ordinary manner.

page_text: The threads on which the tubes, beads, or wires have been strung,
may if required be thickened by means of varnish or gummy material
in the interstices between the tubes, beads, or wires, in order that the
threads at such parts may be of equal thickness with the tubes, beads, or
wires, and prevent any obstruction to the passage of the threads through
the healds and the reed.
In some cases the tubes, beads, or wires may be strung on some of
the weft threads instead of on the warp threads, and in such cases two
shuttles may be employed, one for the threads with the tubes on them,
and the other for the remaining threads. The weaving will then be
effected by causing any required number of plain threads to interveno
between the threads with tubes on them. If necessary, these latter
threads may be thickened in the interstices between the tubes.
When wire is used instead of tubes, it may be made of steel or other
suitable metal, either round or rolled flat, or of any other suitable sectional
form, and cut into suitable lengths, each length having an eye at each end
and in the middle, the eyes furnishing a convenient means of stringing
the wires on to the warp or weft threads, or of fixing them by hand on
to the fabric; or they may be without eyes and be fixed on to the fabric
by sewing or stitching or by some kind of glue or cement.
The fabrics containing these tubes or wires will be more or less power-
fully magnetic in proportion to the length or the thickness, or the
quality, temper, or hardness of the steel, or in proportion to the amount
of these qualities combined; and also in proportion to the number of
tubes, beads, or wires which the fabric contains.
If instead of employing a few longer tubes or wires in connection
with the fabric a larger number of short tubes or wires is employed, the.
magnetic currents will then be diffused more widely over the surface to
which the fabric is applied.
The magnetism may also be more widely spread over the surface to
which the fabric is applied by rows of small soft iron beads being made.
to connect the opposite poles of the tubes or wires. By this means
their magnetism may also be preserved, the small iron beads acting as
keepers.
A greatly concentrated magnetic force may be brought to bear
directly on any part of the body whorn there may be main

page_text: And also the adaptation and application of magnetic tubes, beads, or
wires to other articles and uses herein-before referred to.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Penman Lyon, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fourth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
WILLIAM SPENCE,
8, Quality Court,
Chancery Lane.
W. P. LYON. (L.S.)