IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WIRE CARDS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTER'S PATENT to William Walton, of Haughton Dale Mills,
Denton, near Manchester, Wire Card Manufacturer, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WIRE CARDS."
Sealed the 23rd August 1872, and dated the 13th April 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Walton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th April 1872.
I, WILLIAM WALTON, of Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, near Man-
chester, Wire Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WIRE CARDS,"
to be as follows:-
Wire cards have heretofore been made of round, flat, or triangular
wire.
Now my Invention consists in making wire cards of wire of an
improved section, the peculiarity of which is that it has a flat side,
and two curved sides terminating in a point. This improved wire may
either be rolled or drawn, and it combines the greatest strength, and the
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page_text: best form for operating on the fibrous materials to be carded or cleaned.
The pointed end of the section of the wire first strikes against the cotton
or other fibre and the broad end abuts against the india-rubber cloth or
other material in which the card teeth are set and so prevents undue
elongation of the hole in the same.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Walton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WALTON, of Haughton Dale Mills, Denton, near Manchester, Wire Card
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth 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 me, the said William Walton, Her special licence,
that I, the said William Walton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Walton, 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 the Manu-
FACTURE OF WIRE CARDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said William Walton, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
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 Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters a
Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Walton, 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
following statement (that is to say) :-

page_text: Wire cards have heretofore been made of round, flat, or triangular
wire..
Now my Invention consists in making wire cards of wire of an
improved section, the peculiarity of which is that it has a flat side or
base, and two convex curved sides terminating in a point or edge. This
improved wire may either be rolled or drawn, and it combines the
greatest strength and the best form for operating on the fibrous
materials to be carded or cleaned. The pointed end of the section of the
wire first strikes against the cotton or other fibre, and the broad end
abuts against the india-rubber cloth or other material in which the
card teeth are set, and so prevents undue elongation of the hole in the
same.
The mode of rolling or drawing wire to the section described forms
no part of my present Invention, and I therefore limit my claim to the
use of wire having a flat side or base, and two convex curved sides
terminating in a point or edge for the manufacture of wire cards.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Walton, have hereto set.
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of October One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two.