IMPROVEMENTS IN AND MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE FOR MAKING, WIRE CARDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1872

page_text: LËTTERS · PATENT to William Walton, of Haughton Dale Mills,
Denton, near Manchester, Wire Card Manufacturer, and John
Thomas Fallows, of the same place, Sub-Manager, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE FOR MAKING,
WIRE CARDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Walton and
John Thomas Fallows at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 5th April 1872.
We, WILLIAM WALTON, of Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, near Man-
chester, Wire Card Manufacturer, and JOHN THOMAS FALLOWS, of the
same place, Sub-Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE FOR
MAKING WIRE CARDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists, first, in rolling two round wires in the same
groove or in recesses formed in the circumferences of rollers in order to
produce at one operation two angle or other shaped wires of the required

page_text: section; our Invention consists also in making grooves or recesses of an
angular or curved form in the circumferences of one or both of the
compressing rollers, the section of the grooves or recesses corresponding
to the shape of the two angle or other shaped wires required, so that
when the round wires are compressed in passing between the rollers
each wire assumes the shape of half of the groove or recess. These rolled
wires are particularly adapted for making wire cards, but may be used
for other purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Walton and John Thomas Fallows in the 1
Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
WALTON, of Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, near Manchester, Wire Card
Manufacturer, and JOHN THOMAS FALLOWS, of the same place, Sub-
Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said William Walton and John Thomas Fallows,
Her special licence that we, the said William Walton and John Thomas
Fallows, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said William Walton and John Thomas Fallows, our 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
AND MACHINERY FOR ROLLING WIRE FOR MAKING WIRE CARDS, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William
Walton and John Thomas Fallows, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or 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,

page_text: 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 we, the said William Walton and John Thomas
Fallows, do hereby declare the nature of our 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) :-
.
Our Invention consists, first, in rolling two round or other shaped
wires in the same groove or in recesses formed in the circumferences of
rollers, in order to produce at one operation two angle or other shaped
wires of the required section; our Invention consists also in making
grooves or recesses of an angular or curved form in the circumference
of one or both of the compressing rollers, the section of the grooves or
recesses corresponding to the shape of the two angle or other shaped
wires required, so that when the round or other shaped wires are com-
pressed in passing between the rollers each wire assumes the shape of
half of the groove or recess.
These rolled wires are particularly adapted
for making wire cards, but they may be used for other purposes.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation we will proceed to describe the means pursued
by us.
In rolling wire according to our improved method we employ a pair
of rollers similar to those employed in flattening wire for making the
dents of reeds, but instead of making the circumferences of these rollers
perfectly plain we cause grooves or recesses to be turned or otherwise
formed in them, which grooves or recesses are of the required shape and
size to convert the two wires passing between the rollers into two wires
having two flat or curved sides and a flat base.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents an elevation of a
pair of ordinary flattening rollers, and Fig. 2 a side view of the same.
In these views a, a, are the flattening rollers, and b, b, the standards in
which they revolve. Between the standards 6 is fixed a slotted plate c,
to support the apparatus by which the two wires are guided between
the rollers; this apparatus consists of a tube d which is screwed and
secured to the plate c by the nut e, and within the tube d is the guide f;
consisting of two semi-cylindrical pieces of brass or other material, in

page_text: which are semi-oval or other shaped grooves to form the guide for the
two wires which in passing between the rollers a, a, are compressed and
flattened to the required shape. The ends of the guide are tapered so
as to guide the wires into the nip of the rollers a, a, as shewn in Fig. 2,
but we wish to observe that any other form of guide may be used.
After the wires have been compressed they are wound on reels in the
usual manner.
The circumference of the rollers a, a, are provided
with grooves or recesses of the curved shapes required to form the two
wires passing between them into the section shewn on a magnified scale
in Fig. 3, that is to say, each wire has a flat base and two curved sides,
or the grooves or recesses in the rollers may be angular, as shewn in
Fig. 4, to produce two wires each with a flat base and with two flat
sides.
Instead of making curved or angular grooves or recesses in both the
rollers a, a, as above described, our Invention may be modified by
making the grooves or recesses in one roller only and leaving the other
plain, as shewn in Fig. 5.
Wires rolled in the manner described may be used for various
purposes, but they are particularly suitable for being made into cards
for carding cotton and other fibrous substances, as the base of the wire
when set in the india-rubber cloth or other material of which the card
clothing is made forms a good abutment to resist the pressure on the
point of the wire, and the point and edge of the wire being hardened
by the operation of rolling is found much more durable and does not
require to be ground or set so frequently as wire cards of the usual
construction.
Our Invention is applicable to rolling iron, steel, brass, or other metal
wires or rods of various dimensions.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described a
convenient manner of performing the same, we wish it to be under.
stood that we do not limit ourselves to the details given, as the same
may be varied or modified; and we claim as our improvement in rolling.
wire the passing of two wires together between compressing rollers so
as to compress and form at one operation two wires of the desired
section; we also claim as our improvements in machinery for rolling.
wire making grooves in one or both of the compressing rollers for the

page_text: purpose described, and the guide for other equivalent for guiding the
wires to the groove of the compressing rollers.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Walton and John Thomas
Fallows, have hereto set our hands and seals, this First day of
October One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. ⠀.
WILLIAM WALTON.
(L.S.)
JOHN THOMAS FALLOWS. (L.S.)