IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ANVILS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Wright and Owen Wright, of Dudley, in the
County of Worcester, Anvil Makers, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ANVILS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Wright and Owen
Wright at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th February
1882.
EDWIN WRIGHT and OWEN WRIGHT of Dudley in the County of Worcester
Anvil Makers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ANVILS."
This Invention consists in making anvils in one solid pieco so as to avoid the
usual welding or joining of the parts and the operation is as follows:-We take a
piece of iron and by means of dies and swage tools form it into a suitable shape
under a steam or other hammer, that is to say, we hollow out the two ends and
flatten the part required to form the top, leaving the bottom part to be formed
afterwards. It is then reheated and by means of top and bottom dies it is made into
the required shape for an anvil ready for steeling the face in the usual way.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edwin Wright and Owen Wright in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd August 1882.
EDWIN WRIGHT and OWEN WRIGHT of Dudley in the County of Worcester
Anvil Makers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ANVILS."
This Invention consists in making wrought iron anvils in one solid piece without
weld or joint of any kind. The usual mode of making such anvils is to build
them up
from a number of pieces of iron welded together to form the shape
required or by another method forging the anvil in two halves and welding those
two parts together. These joints and welds are always liable to give way when
the anvil is in use.
The process we adopt in carrying out our Invention is as follows-
We take a bloom of iron in a heated state and by means of dies and tools under
a steam or other power hammer shape the iron into the form shewn at (Figure 1)
that is to say, we hollow out the two ends (a and b) of the block and flatten the
part, c, which is destined to form the top of the anvil-leaving the bottom, d, to
be formed afterwards by similar means. The iron is then reheated and placed
between a pair of dies shewn in (Figure 2) by which under the hammer it is
formed into the perfect shape of a finished anvil ready for the operation of
_steeling the face-Or by another process we take a bloom of iron and shape it in
dies into the forin seen at (Figure 3), e, representing the top of the anvil and
f the long body-We then reheat the iron and shape the bottom part f. in dies
to the form required for the bottom of the anvil after which the whole is finished
between dies of the form shewn in (Figure 2).
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be carried out we would remark that we do not limit ourselves
to the precise details of manufacture or forms of tools employed which we have
herein specified as variations may be made without departing from the main
principles of the Invention but that which we claim is
The improvements in the manufacture of wrought iron anvils by making them
in one solid piece without weld or joint substantially as herein more fully set forth
and specified.
In witness whereof we the said Edwin Wright and Owen Wright have
hereunto set our hands and seals this Twenty eighth day of July in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.