IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAGES FOR BIRDS; SQUIRRELS, AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAGES FOR BIRDS;
SQUIRRELS, AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Sealed the 1st March 1870, and dated the 15th September 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Mohr and
Samuel Edmonds Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 15th September 1869.
We, CHARLES MOHR and SAMUEL EDMONDS SMITH, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAGES FOR
BIRDS, SQUIRRELS, AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object the better securing of the wires in
the bands or hoops of bird and other cages. We form the band of a
strip of metal, which is first doubled, then pierced through the double
near the loop or doubled edge at suitable distances to receive the wire,

page_text: after which the free edges of the band are opened out and then folded
back from the centre, forming this section
or any other suitable
one, by which a flange or more than one flange is produced as at (a),
through which the wires are inserted as at (6), solder is then run into
the flange at (c), thus filling the doubled part of the band and sur-
rounding each wire and firmly securing the whole together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th March 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
MOHR and SAMUEL EDMONDS SMITH, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith,
Her special licence that we, the said Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds
Smith, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Charles Mohr and Samuel Edmonds Smith, 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
THE MANUFACTURE OF CAGES FOR BIRDS, SQUIRRELS, AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Charles Mohr and
Samuel Edmonds Smith, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, 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

page_text: 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 Charles Mohr and Samuel
Edmonds Smith, 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, reference being
had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures
marked thereon, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object the better securing of the wires in
the bands or hoops of bird and other cages. We form the band of a
strip of metal, which is first doubled, then pierced through the double
near the loop or doubled edge at suitable distances to receive the wire,
after which the free edges of the band are opened out and then folded
back from the centre, forming this section
or any other suitable
one, by which a flange or more than one flange is produced as at (a),
through which the wires are inserted as at (6), solder is then run into
the flange at (c), thus filling the double part of the band and sur-
rounding each wire and firmly securing the whole together.
We will now proceed to describe our Invention more fully in detail by
aid of the accompanying Drawings.
We form the band or hoop of a strip of metal, such as Figure 1, which
shews a portion only of such strip; the strip is first doubled, as shown
in Figure 2, then pierced through the double, as represented in Figure 3,
with a series of holes (a) near the loop or doubled edge at suitable
distances for the purpose of receiving the wires. The free edges of the
band are then opened out by means of a suitable tool so as to present the
form of Figure 4, after which operation the opened out edges (6) are
folded back from the centre by means of suitable rolls or tools, so as to
produce the form shewn in Figure 5 or any other similar one, by which
a flange or more than one flange is produced as at (c); the wires are
inserted through the holes (a) of the flange (c), as indicated by the
dotted lines of the section Figure 5, solder is then run into the flange
at (e) or at the entrance of the wire in the flange (c) of the hoop or
5 band, thus filling the doubled part of the band and surrounding cach

page_text: wire and firmly securing the whole together; Figure 6 represents a
portion of a curved band or hoop applicable for circular cages, whilst
the straight band Figure 5 may as well be used in the formation of
square or polygonal sided cages.
Having thus described the object and nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, we claim
without limiting ourselves to these precise details, the "Improvements
in the Manufacture of Cages for Birds, Squirrels, and other Animals,"
substantially in manner as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles Mohr and Samuel
Edmonds Smith, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy.
CHARLES MOHR.
(L.S.)
SAMUEL EDMONDS SMITH. (L.S.)
CHARLES MOHR.
(L.S.)
SAMUEL EDMONDS SMITH. (L.S.)