IMPROVEMENTS IN WELDED. W on TARIC AND A Dream USED FOR TELEGRAPHIC AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Johnson, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Wire Drawer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WELDED.
W on TARIC AND A Dream"
Sealed the 5th August 1862, and dated the 11th February 1862..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Johnson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th February 1862.
I, RICHARD JOHNSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Wire
Drawer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WELDED WIRES USED FOR TELEGRAPHIC AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as.
follows:-
My Invention has for its object the strengthening of those joints which are
produced by welding, and the maintenance of a conducting medium should the
welding give way. These advantages I propose to attain by protecting the said.
joints with a metal covering, and this I form by winding wire or other such
material around the joint, so that should the welding break, the said wire will
still constitute a connexion or conducting medium. By subsequently gal-
vanizing the whole becomes soldered together.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Johnson, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
JOHNSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Wire Drawer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Johnson, Her special license that I, the said Richard
Johnson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Richard Johnson, 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 WELDED WIRES USED FOR, TELEGRAPHIC AND. OTHER PURPOSES,"
upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said Richard Johnson, 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
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Johnson, 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 fol-
lowing statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
My Invention has for its object the strengthening of those joints which are
produced by welding, and the maintenance of a continuity should the, welding
give way. These advantages I propose to attain by protecting the said joints
with a metal covering, and this I form by winding wire or other such material
around the joint, so that should the welding break, the said wire will still con-
stitute a connexion or conducting medium. By a subsequent process of
galvanizing the whole becomes soldered together.
In the accompanying Drawing the improvement is illustrated by three
views, Fig. 1 being an external view of the joined wires; Fig. 2 is a section
of the same, and Fig. 3 represents the disposition of the parts when the

page_text: welded joint has given way. The two wires are at a, b, welded together at the
part denoted by the red line. Around this and for some distance on each side
thereof I coil wire as at c, which wire may be round, flat, or of other suitable
form; and, if desired, in order to gain additional strength, I galvanize the
whole by the usual process. By the above-described arrangement the junction
of the wires is materially strengthened, and one object of my Invention is
thereby attained; but supposing that the said wires separate at or near the
welded part, then the protecting wire c will be drawn out in a spiral form as
at Fig. 3, and the continuity will be preserved, so as to afford the conducting
medium required for telegraphic purposes.
My Invention is, however, also applicable to other cases in which welded
wires are used, such, for instance, as wire fencing.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I desire it to be understood
that I claim as secured to me under the above in part recited Letters Patent,
and for the purposes above set forth, the use of wire or other such material
coiled around the joints of wires united by welding.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Johnson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
RICHARD JOHNSON. (L.S.)