IMPROVEMENTS IN SMITHS' AND BELLOWS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Collingwood Onions, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Smiths' Bellows and Patent Portable Forge Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SMITHS' AND
BELLOWS."
Sealed the 12th December 1868, and dated the 16th June 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Collingwood Onions
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th June 1863.
I, JOHN COLLINGWOOD ONIONS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Smiths' Bellows and Patent Portable Forge Manufacturer, do, hereby declaro
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SMITHS' AND OTHER
BELLOWS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing the ". cope" or front of bellows of
iron or other metal, in fixing it rigidly by screws or otherwise to the middle
board, and in connecting it by flexible joints to the two outer boards.
My Invention further consists in connecting the blast pipe to the cope by
means of screws, bolts, or otherwise in such manner that when required. the
blast pipe can be readily removed. When for packing, I reverse the blast pipe
and place it inside the bellows, whereby much space is economized.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Collingwood Onions in the Great Seal Patent Office.
on the 16th December 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
COLLINGWOOD ONIONS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Smiths'
Bellows and Patent Portable Forge Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Collingwood Onions, Her special licence that I, the said John
Collingwood Onions, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said John Collingwood Onions, 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: "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN SMITHS' AND OTHER BELLOWS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Collingwood Onions, my executors or adminis
trators, by an instrument in writing under my; or their, or one of their
bands and seals, 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 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 John Collingwood Onions, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in constructing the "cope" or front of smiths' and
other bellows of iron or other metal.
My Invention further consists in connecting the blast pipe to the cope by.
means of screws, bolts, or otherwise in such manner that when required the-
blast pipe can be readily removed. When, for packing, I reverse the blast.
pipe and insert it inside the bellows, whereby much space is economised.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view of a pair of bellows,
shewing the manner in which I prefer to connect the blast pipe to the cope. A

page_text: is the front of the cope; B is the blast pipe; a, a, are screws passing through
lugs or projections on the back end of the pipe into the cope A, whereby the
pipe and cope are firmly connected.
When for packing, I reverse the pipe, that is to say, I take out the screws a,
place the pipe inside the bellows, as represented in Figure 2, and reinsert the
screws, as shewn; and in order that the gudgeons 6 and lifting hook c may
not come in contact with and injure the leather of other bellows, I make the
gudgeons and lifting hook to unscrew, and pack them inside the pipe.
Figure 3 is a section on a larger scale of part of the bellows represented in
Figures 1 and 2, with the pipe B placed inside, and shewing the internal
arrangement of the bellows.
Figure 4 is a view of the back end of the blast pipe detached, and Figure 5
is a front view of the bellows with the blast pipe removed.
Figure 6 represents part of a pair of bellows with the cope A made entirely
of metal.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my "Improve-
ments in Smiths' and other Bellows,"
First, constructing the cope or front of iron or other metal, as herein-before
described.
Second, connecting the blast pipe to the cope by means of screws, bolts, or
otherwise in such manner that, when required, the blast pipe can be readily
removed and replaced, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Collingwood Onions, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.
JOHN C. UNIONS. (L.S.)