AN. IMPROVED MODE. OF ANNEALING GAUZE WIRE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
and Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, for the
Invention of "AN. IMPROVED MODE. OF ANNEALING GAUZE WIRE."-A
communication from abroad by Jean Delage and Alfred Boudinot,,
of Angoulême, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 9th March 1869, and dated the 11th September 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas Hughes:
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 11th September 1868.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent
Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF ANNEALING GAUZE WIRE," a
communication to me from abroad by Jean Delage and Alfred Boudinot,
of Angoulême, in the Empire of France, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the mode of annealing
gauze wire used for manufacturing paper and other purposes, and consists
in causing the wire to pass over a heated cylinder, by which means it is
more evenly and thoroughly annealed than heretofore.

page_text: If the gauze wire is in piece one end is fastened to a hollow cylinder of
metal or wood, around which it passes and is thence conducted over the
annealing cylinder and again around a third cylinder corresponding to
the one first mentioned, to which the other end of the said gauze wire is
fastened. The two cylinders to which the wire is secured revolve in
bearings on a suitable frame, motion being imparted to them by hand
or otherwise, by which means the wire is passed at the required speed
over the annealing cylinder according to the amount of tempering
required. The said annealing cylinder revolves on and is supported by
three or more rollers revolving in bearings on the frame above mentioned,
and has tubes passing through it which may either be perforated or
supplied with burners and are in communication with a reservoir of gas,
spirit, or hydrocarbon oil, the gas or vapour being ignited as it issues
from the burners within the cylinder and impinges against the inside
of the said cylinder, thereby causing the gauze wire passing around the
outside thereof to be evenly and thoroughly heated or annealed.
If the gauze wire is endless it is not secured to the two cylinders, as
before stated, but merely passed around them and the annealing cylinder,
it being also supported from above by rollers revolving in bearings on
the upper part of the frame above mentioned, the other details of the
process being the same as before.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 10th March 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 123,
Chancery Lane, London, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomas Hughes,
Her special licence that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said

page_text: Edward Thomas Hughes, 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 "AN IMPROVED MODE OF ANNEALING GAUZE WIRE," a
communication to me from abroad by Jean Delage and Alfred Boudinot,
of Angoulême, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, 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 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 Edward Thomas Hughes, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters of reference thereon (that is
to say):
:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the mode of annealing
gauze wire used in the manufacture of paper and for other purposes, and
consists in causing the wire to pass over a heated cylinder, by which
means it is more evenly and thoroughly annealed than heretofore.
If the gauze wire is in a short length one end is fastened at G to a
hollow cylinder B of metal or wood, around which it passes and is thence
conducted over the annealing cylinder C and again around a third
cylinder B corresponding to the one first mentioned, to which the
other end of the said gauze wire is fastened at G as before. The two
cylinders B, B, to which the wire is secured revolve in bearings on a
suitable frame A, motion being imparted to them by hand or otherwise,
by which means the wire is passed at the required speed over tho
annealing cylinder C according to the amount of tempering required.
The said annealing cylinder revolves on and is supported by three or
more rollers D revolving in bearings E on the frame A above mentioned,
and has tubes E passing through it, which may either be perforated or
supplied with burners and arc in communication with a reservoir of gas,

page_text: spirit, or hydrocarbon oil, the gas or vapour being ignited as it issues
from the burners within the cylinder C and impinges against the inside
of the said cylinder, thereby causing the wire gauze passing around the
outside thereof to be evenly and thoroughly heated or annealed.
If the gauze wire is endless it is not secured to the two cylinders B, 5
as before stated, but merely passed around them and the annealing
cylinder, it being also supported from above by the rollers F revolving
in bearings on the upper part of the frame A, the other details of the
process being the same as before.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of the said Inven- 1
tion, I claim, the improved mode of annealing gauze wire, as herein
described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty- 1
nine.