A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION CERTAIN KINDS OF ROLLS OR CYLINDERS, AND DIES OR SURFACES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Wilson, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Engineer, and John Hadley, of Birmingham aforesaid, Engi-
neer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Wilson and John
Hadley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 15th June 1854.
We, THOMAS WILSON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Engineer,
and JOHN HADLEY, of Birmingham aforesaid, Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING
CERTAIN KINDS OF ROLLS OR CYLINDERS, AND DIES OR SURFACES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists of a method of constructing ornamental steel rolls
to be used for ornamenting metallic surfaces, and such other purposes as the
same may be applicable to, which said method is also applicable to the pro-
duction of ornamental plane surfaces or dies. Instead of forming the said
ornamental surfaces by engraving on the surface of the rolls and dies, we form
the figures or patterns separately, and attach the same to the said rolls or dies
by screwing the same thereto, or otherwise. By this method of constructing
the said cylinders and dies any injury to the same can be readily repaired by
the removal of the injured part and substitution of a fresh portion.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Wilson and John Hadley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th December 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
WILSON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Engineer, and JOHN
HADLEY, of Birmingham aforesaid, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Wilson and John Hadley, Her special licence that we, the said
Thomas Wilson and John Hadley, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Thomas Wilson and John Hadley, our
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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING
CERTAIN KINDS OF ROLLS OR CYLINDERS, AND DIES OR SURFACES," upon the condi-
tion (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Wilson and John Hadley, by
an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us, 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 we, the said Thomas Wilson and John Hadley, do
hereby declare the nature of the 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, that is to say:--
Our Invention consists of a method of constructing ornamental steel rolls
or cylinders, to be used for ornamenting inetallic surfaces, and for such
other purposes as the same are or may be applicable to, which said method
is also applicable to the production of ornamental, plane, and other sur-
faces or dies. Instead of forming the ornamental surfaces of rolls and dies
by cutting or engraving the pattern or design on the same, as is commonly
practised, we form the figures or patterns separately, and attach the same to

page_text: the said rolls or dies by screwing the same thereto, or otherwise fastening
the same.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation a roll or cylinder constructed accord-
ing to our Invention, the said roll or cylinder having a series of holes made
in its cylindrical surface, and steel ornaments a, a, a, inserted in the said
holes. Figure 2 represents a transverse vertical section of the roll, Figure 1,
and illustrates the manner in which the ornaments a, a, a, are inserted by
means of their stems b, b, in the cylindrical surface of the roll. Figure 3
represents in side elevation another roll or cylinder constructed according
to our Invention.
Instead of inserting the ornaments a, a, a, in a solid
roll, as in Figures 1 and 2, we insert them in rings c, c, Figure 3, and
place the said rings side by side on the cylinder indicated by dotted
lines in the said Figure 3, the said rings being held between cheeks e, f,
and bound by the screw nut on the axis d. Where the pattern to be
produced is such that it can readily be cut on the edge of one of the rings,
we prefer to make the ornaments on the edge of the said rings, instead of
inserting them therein. Figure 4 represents a transverse vertical section of
a roll, on which the projecting ornaments i, i, are produced, by engraving or
sinking the intermediate portions of the ring k. Any desirable number of the
rings may be placed upon a roll or axis and secured in the manner herein-
before explained. Figure 5 represents in plan, and Figure 6 in vertical
section, a die constructed according to our Invention. A series of holes n, n,
are made in the die m, and ornaments o, o, are inserted therein, by screwing
or otherwise. Figure 7 represents in plan, and Figure 8 in vertical longi-
tudinal section, another die constructed according to our Invention, which said
die is made up of the strips p, p, on the upper edges of which the ornaments
are made, by engraving or otherwise. The said strips p, p, are placed in the
and bound together by screws r. By constructing rolls or cylinders,
and dies or surfaces, according to our Invention, any injury to the same can
readily be repaired by removal of the injured part and substitution of a fresh
portion.
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Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not limit
ourselves to the precise methods herein described, as the same may be varied
5 without departing from the nature of our said Invention; but we claim as
our Invention, making ornamental rolls or cylinders and dies or surfaces
of steel, to be used for ornamenting metallic surfaces, and such other purposes
as the same are or may be applicable to, by forming the same in portions and

page_text: combining the same together in the manner herein described and illus-
trated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Wilson and John Hadley,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
THOMAS WILSON. (L.B.)
(L.B.)
JOHN HADLEY.