IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EYELETS OR CIRCLETS, AND RINGS OR WASHERS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREWITH, AND ALSO OF SHIP AND SAIL THIMBLES, AND HOLLOW RINGS FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CURTAINS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1880

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LETTERS PATENT to William Bodill, of Birmingham, in the County of. Warwick,
for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EYELETS OR
CIRCLETS, AND RINGS OR WASHERS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREWITH, AND ALSO
OF SHIP AND SAIL THIMBLES, AND HOLLOW RINGS FOR THE SUSPENSION OF
CURTAINS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Bodill in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
January 1881.
WILLIAM BODILL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EYELETS OR CIRCLETS, AND RINGS OR WASHERS TO BE
EMPLOYED THEREWITH, AND ALSO OF SHIP AND SAIL THIMBLES, AND HOLLOW
RINGS FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CURTAINS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
My said Invention consists in improvements in the manufacture of ship or sail
thimbles, and circlets or eyelets, and rings or washers for sails, sacking, grummets,
bands, and other purposes, and also in the manufacture of hollow rings to be
employed for the suspension of curtains and other similar purposes.
"
Instead of forming the said articles of brass or copper, or a mixture of copper
and spelter, as has hitherto been the case, I. manufacture them from sheets of
Bessemer steel or Bessemer metal," whereby a considerable economy is effected,
whilst at the same time the manufactured articles are stronger and more durable.
Although any suitable method and apparatus may be employed for manufacturing
eyelets in accordance with this Invention, 1 prefer to cut and raise them from the
sheets of metal by means of a pair of press tools into a cup form, they are then
annealed and the outer edge is turned down into the required position by stamping,
after which the centre is pierced. The washers or rings for eyelets I cut out and
raise by means of suitable and known tools, and they are then partially closed by
turning down the outer edge. For the purposes of manufacturing the other articles
herein before mentioned I employ any suitable and known methods and apparatus,
as will be well understood.
The size and shape of the said articles can be varied according to the purposes
for which they are required.
The said articles can be afterwards japanned, tinned, galvanized, electro-brassed,
nickel plated, or otherwise coated for the purposes of ornament, or as a protection
from rust; however, in the case of circlets or eyelets I prefer to galvanize or tin
the metal after such articles are formed, but previous to the last process of stamping,
as by so doing a better surface is obtained, the pores of the metal being closed by
the said stamping, but in some cases the galvanizing or tinning is done after
stamping.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention and the
manner in which it is to be performed, I would observe in conclusion that what I
consider novel and original, and therefore claim as constituting the Invention
secured to me by the said hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,
The manufacture of eyelets or circlets, and rings or washers to be employed
therewith, and also of ship and sail thimbles and hollow rings from sheets of
Bessemer steel or "Bessemer metal," substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bodill, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this First day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty one