AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF HURDLES AND GATES
Year: 1854

page_text: Sealed the 28th April 1854, and dated the 21st February 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Boydell at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st February
1854.
I, JAMES BOYDELL, of 65, Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park, do hereby
declare the nature of the said. Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF HURDLES AND GATES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of obtaining greater strength in the manufacture of
hurdles and gates, by using twisted bars or rods. For which purpose the rods
or bars immediately they come from the rolls are
each held at one end, and
then by a suitable handle or lever the rods or bars are twisted in their length,
by which greater strength is obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Boydell, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th
August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BOYDELL, of 65, Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of February, in the year
of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Boydell, Her special licence that I, the said James Boydell,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Boydell, my exccutors, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF HURDLES AND GATES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
James Boydell, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Boydell, 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):-
This Invention consists of obtaining greater strength in the manufacture of
hurdles and gates by using twisted bars or rods. For which purpose the rods
each held at one end, and
or bars immediately they come from the rolls are
then by a suitable handle or lever the rods or bars are twisted in their length,
by which greater strength is obtained.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
In carrying out my Invention I manufacture rods of twisted iron by causing
iron rods as they come from the rollers by which they are rolled, and when
still retaining their heat, to be twisted; by which means the process of re-

page_text: heating is avoided, the cost saved, and thus the manufacture of twisted rods
of iron suitable for the making hurdles and gates is improved. For this pur-
pose, as the rods are coming from the rollers at the last time of rolling, they
are taken hold of by a lever or handle, and twisted.
Figure 1 shows a side view of a hurdle constructed with horizontal twisted
bars, according to my Invention.
Figure 2 is an edge view thereof; Figure 3 shows a side view of a gate
constructed with horizontal rods of twisted iron, according to my Invention.
a, a, are the horizontal bars of twisted iron of the hardle and gate, each of
which consists of a bar of iron, which is thin as compared with its width, and
stiffness is obtained by twisting the same, as is shewn. I perform the twisting,
as before stated, as the bars come from the rolls, and whilst hot. The twisted
rods are most suitable for horizontal bars of hurdles or gates; and they are
fixed to the uprights b, b, as shewn, or in any convenient manner, and such
twisted rods may be used for the uprights, though it is considered that they
are best suited for the horizontal rods. What I claim is, the manufacture of
twisted iron rods by twisting iron as the same comes from the rollers, and the
making of hurdles and gates, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Boydell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
JAMES FOX,
Smethwick.
JAMES BOYDELL. (L.S.)