IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTABLE MAGNETS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philip William Seymour, of Hallsville Road,
Canning Town; in the County of Essex, for the Invention of
" IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTABLE MAGNETS TO BE EMPLOYED
FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 18th May 1872, and dated the 30th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philip William
Seymour at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 30th January 1872.
I, PHILIP WILLIAM SEYMOUR, of Hallsville Road, Canning Town,
in the County of Essex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTABLE MAGNETS
TO BE EMPLOYED FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
:-
Heretofore solid inflexible magnets have been employed for curative
and other purposes, but such magnets are difficult of application to
various parts of the body; an attempt was afterwards made to construct.
a flexible magnet, consisting of steel or iron filings amalgamated with

page_text: india-rubber or other flexible gum or material, but this latter application
has been found heavy and to be easily injured by the influence of
oxidation.
Now according to my Invention I construct a portable magnet which
shall at the same time be flexible and protected from oxidation, by
employing thin strips or small chains of steel or iron embedded in or
covered by a coating of india-rubber or other flexible and protecting
material. These strips or chains of iron or steel are by preference
magnetised in any of the ordinary modes after they are covered with
the protecting material.
譬
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Philip William Seymour in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 30th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIP
WILLIAM SEYMOUR, of Hallsville Road, Canning Town, in the County
óf Essex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of January, 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 Philip William Seymour, Her special
licence that I, the said Philip William Seymour, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Philip William
Seymour, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 CONSTRUCTION OF PORTABLE MAGNETS TO BE EMPLOYED
FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Philip William Seymour, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said

page_text: flexible protecting material. In constructing these magnets I prefer to
use that description of steel ordinarily known as "crinoline steel,"
which by means of a press and suitably shaped die or by other suitable
means is cut to the desired shape and size, but other descriptions of
steel may be employed, whilst, if desired, iron may be substituted for
steel, but in this latter case the iron will require to be case-hardened. I
by preference embed or cover these pieces or strips, or chains, or links
of steel or iron in vulcanised india-rubber, but other suitable flexible
protecting material. may be employed, and I magnetise such pieces of
iron or steel by any of the ordinary modes after they are covered with
the protecting material.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the construction of portable magnets for curative and
other purposes, by employing thin strips or small chains of steel or iron
embedded in or covered by a coating of india-rubber or other flexible
and protecting material in manner substantially as herein shown and
described..
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip William Seymour, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
P. W. SEYMOUR. (L.S.)