A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING WIRE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of
April, in the fifty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
William Bell, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Bell, my exors, admors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD
OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING WIRE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Bell,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately 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
William Bell, do hereby declare that my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained

page_text: in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following description
thereof; that is to say:-
I make use of rollers made of iron, steel, or other metals, such as are
applied to flatting or rolling of metals; and in order to obtain the impressions
for rolling the different sorts of wire, I indent my rolls by turning in them
fluted hollows, reeds, or any other required form, as appears in Drawings
annexed, at Letter A, or otherwise I produce the impressions by filing, cutting,
punching, or by casting my rolls with the impressed form upon them from
patterns or moulds made for that purpose. My rollers, being thus prepared,
are put together in a frame, and placed parallel to each other, in the usual way
as they are done for rolling or flatting. I then pass such rolled or flatted
metal, as occasion requires, between the said rollers, as before described; and
by compression I produce the figure, form, and size intended, as at B.
The next part of my process is in dividing or separating the wires from
each other, which I perform by the use of slitters nearly similar to such as are
used for slitting sheet iron into rods; or I can separate them by circular or
lever sheers, or by tools worked in a fly catch, or by rollers inverted, as appears
at D. Letter C represents the wire divided. There are various ways by which
the wires may be separated, as, for instance, Letter E represents a pair of rollers
formed for the purpose of passing the roll'd wire metal through, by which the
wires become divided by breaking them one from the other.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord