IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINING METALLIC WIRES WITH TEXTILE MATERIALS OR FABRICS FOR FORMING WIRE RIBBON.
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Hall, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster,
Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINING METALLIC
WIRES WITH TEXTILE MATERIALS OR FABRICS FOR FORMING WIRE RIBBON.'
Sealed the 13th July 1855, and dated the 17th January 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Hall at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th January 1855.
I, EDWARD HALL, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COM-
BINING METALLIC WIRES WITH TEXTILE MATERIALS OR FABRICS FOR FORMING
WIRE RIBEON" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in combining a required number of wires with one
or more thicknesses of cotton or other woven fabric or fibrous material, and
cementing the same together with suitable adhesive substance; the whole is
then submitted to pressure, and severed into required widths. An apparatus I
employ for this purpose. consists of two or more heated rollers furnished with
grooves for the reception of the wires which proceed from a creel simultane-
ously with the cloth or fibrous material to which the adhesive substance is
applied,, after which the material passes between knives or cutters, and is there
severed into the required widths...

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Hall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th July 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HALL, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Hall, Her especial licence that I, the said Edward Hall, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
Hall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agreo
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 COMBINING
METAL WIRES WITH TEXTILE MATERIALS OR FABRICS FOR FORMING WIRE RIBBON,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Hall, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is 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 Edward Hall, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawing (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in combining a required number of wires with one or
more thicknesses of cotton or other woven fabric or fibrous material, and
cementing the same together with a suitable adhesive substance. The plan I
prefer adopting is, to cause two pieces of calico, or other cloth of convenient
width, to pass between rollers, the wires at the same time being drawn from a
creel so as to become enclosed between the two, previously to which, however,
à coating of size or other glutinous matter is applied to the woven fabric.
The united pieces of cloth with the encased wires then pass onward over a
heated surface, and are then severed by cutters into desired widths.
In order, however, fully to illustrate my Invention, I have appended to this
my Specification a Drawing, shewing a suitable arrangement of macliinery in
sectional view.

page_text: The two pieces of cloth are represented at a, b, proceeding from rollers
placed in any convenient situation; the wires are shewn at c passing from a
créel or other such apparatus, and they may be covered in the usual manner
or used plain. Upon the framework are mounted two rollers d, formed with
grooves corresponding to the distances apart at which the wires are intended
to be attached; these rollers may be turned by a hand winch or by a suitable
application of motive power. At e is a steam chest, to be heated by ordinary
means; and at f, two cutting rollers, similar to those used in the paper manu-
facture. g are two rollers driven from those shewn at d, and at the same speed
as regards their surfaces; these serve to draw forward the material after it has
left the rollers d. Upon a standard of the framework is a trough h, contain-
ing size or other adhesive substance, which is conveyed to the cloth a by means
of a roller i, covered with felt, and caused to rotate by wheelwork or other
connexion with one of the rollers d. Upon rotatory motion being applied to
the machine, the two pieces of cloth and the wires are drawn forward, and are
pressed together by the rollers d, the grooves of which, as before mentioned,
are at the correct distances apart to receive the wires, from thence passing
over the steam chest e, the size becomes dried, and the wires are thus cemented
between the two cloths; after which, being drawn forward by the rollers 9. the
whole is severed into the required widths by the cutters f, and delivered into
any required receptacle by the rollers
g.
I have above described a certain arrangement of machinery; I desire it to be
understood, however, that I do not confine myself thereto, as it will be evident
that many forms of apparatus may be employed to accomplish the object in
view; I have also mentioned the use of two pieces of cloth, but one only may
be adopted, and, if desired, paper or other fibrous material may take the place
of the second.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I claim, as secured to me under the above in part recited Letters Patent,
the production of "ribbon wire," by cementing wires with one or more thick-
nesses of woven fabric or fibrous material.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Hall, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
EDWARD HALL. (L.S.)