A MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR WORKING AND BINDING OF WIRE, AND MAKING OF MOULDS USED BY PAPER MANUFACTURERS, AND FOR THE MORE CORRECT AND EXPEDITIOUS METHOD OF WORKING AND BINDING OF WIRE FOR MAKING OF SIVES, SCREENS, MEAT SAFES, &c.
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
MOSELEY ELLIOT, of Chesham, in the County of Bucks, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-seventh day of June, in the thirty-third year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, His especial licence that I,
the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE OR
ENGINE FOR WORKING AND BINDING OF WIRE, AND MAKING OF MOULDS USED BY
PAPER MANUFACTURERS, AND FOR THE MORE CORRECT AND EXPEDITIOUS METHOD OF
WORKING AND BINDING OF WIRE FOR MAKING OF SIVES, SCREENS, MEAT SAFES, &c. ;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said Joseph Moseley Elliot, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of the said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Moseley Elliot, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a
Machine or Engine for Working and Binding of Wire, and Making of

page_text: · Moulds used by Paper Manufacturers, and for the more Correct and Expe-
dditious Method of Working and Binding of Wire for Making of Sives,
Screens, Meat Safes, &c., is described in the plan and description thereof
hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, have hereunto 5
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
JOSEPH MOSELEY ELLIOT. (L.8.)
A DESCRIPTION of a MACHINE or ENGINE for the Purpose of making Paper
Moulds, Meat Safes. Window Safes, Sives, Gravel Screens, &c., the
Invention of Joseph Moseley Elliot, of Jarmans, near Chesham, in the
County of Bucks.-See the annexed Figures.
Fig. 1st, represented by A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, is a frame of wood standing
upon six legs, A, H, being the two legs in front, the others not visible in this
point of view; the part B, C, D, E, F, G, reclining in about an angle of
45 degrees, similar to a writing desk or bureau. I, K, is a rack of brass,
having a number of teeth upon the upper edge from one end to the other,
moving from right to left alternately between the pieces of brass L, M, N, by
means of the handle O fix'd on the axis P', at the further end of which is a
wheel with 7 teeth, which teeth take alternately into the teeth R, S, of the
rack, which produces the direct & retrograde motions above mentioned. On
the frame T, U, V, W, is fixed a number of jacks, viz., 48, marked 5, 6, 7, 8,
(tho only 4 are in the Drawing, they being sufficient for explanation,) each
placed at the distance of one inch from each other, which jacks have each a
wheel on its axis of 20 teeth, which wheels are acted upon and put in motion
by the wrack before mentioned, but so constructed that their motion shall
cause a direct motion in the jacks, tho the motions of the wheels are direct
and retrograde alternately, answering to the motion of the wrack which moves
them. See it further explained in Fig. 3 upon a larger scale, where A, B,
represents a part of the wrack, C the wheel of 20 teeth, tho' only 6 are drawn,
they being sufficient for explanation. D, a part of one of the jacks; E, a
click; F, a spring. Now it is easy to conceive, that when the wrack moves
in the direction of the dart G, the wheel will move in the direction of the
dart H, so that the spring F will get into the dotter situation on the other
sile as at C, but when the wrack moves back, viz., in the direction of the
dart I, the wheel will move contrary to the direction of the dart H, and con-
sequently carry the piece D with it, till the click E falls into a notch at the
top of tho picce D, which will always have a direct motion.

page_text: Fig. 4 is one of the jacks upon a large scale. A, B, C, is a frame of brass
fixed to the wooden frame T, U, V, W, by the screw at D, E, F, an axis of
brass, having a hole from end to end; to the end E is made fast the frame of the
jack G, H, I, K, which contain the three pullics L, M, N; the pullies L & M
contain the wire made use of in the moulds, and the center pulley contains
the silken thread wound round it in a contrary direction to the wires, which
thread is made to pass through the hole in the brass axis, to the end of which
silk is suspended a weight to give the wires a proper degree of tension, as
may be seen at Fig. 2nd, where is a view of two of the weights; it is to be
observed, that there is applyd a weight and line to every jack. 5, s, are two
small pullies to keep the wires at proper distance. T, the hook marked T,
Fig. 2d. U, the forked piece to graw the wires over the hook by pressing
down the handle a, Fig. the 1st & 2d. The mechanism is easily under-
stood by the levers represented by the dots, Fig. 1st, which are under the
body of the machine; a, the wheel; e, the click; & f, the spring.
Fig. 5 & 6 are end views of two different situations of the piece repre-
sented by a in Figure the first & 2d; 6 is the center of motion in all the
Figures; the black dot near the top is the hole which is represented by the
dotted line a, c, in Figure the first, which hole is a lodgment for the streight,
or what is called the laying wire, of the moulds, &c. d, Fig. 5, is a valve of
brass kept close to the wooden frame c, by means of the spring c. Fig. 6 is
the valve open, letting out the wire; the rack, the jacks, the fork marked u
in Fig. 4th, and the pieces, Fig. 5, are all put in motion by the handle at O.
I have given a Drawing of no more than 4 of the jacks, tho' 48 is the number,
they being of sufficient extent for the largest sized paper.
JOSE DIL MOSELEY ELLIOT