AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLAT STEEL WIRE USED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF THE RIBS AND STRETCHERS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Fox, of Deepcar Works, Sheffield, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLAT STEEL
WIRE USED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF THE RIBS AND STRETCHERS OF
UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS."
Sealed the 17th November 1857, and dated the 22nd May 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Fox at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd May 1857.
I, SAMUEL Fox, of Deepcar Works, Sheffield, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLAT STEEL
WIRE USED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF THE RIBS AND STRETCHERS OF UMBRELLAS
AND PARASOLS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
flat steel wire used for the manufacture of the ribs and stretchers of umbrellas
and parasols. For this purpose, in place of continuing to draw the flat steel
wire, as heretofore, to the desired degree of thinness, the flat wire, after being
drawn through suitable dies to nearly the required section, is completed by
being rolled between rollers; by which process of manufacture it is found that'
less waste takes place when bending such flat wire into a hollow or trough-
like form, suitable for the ribs and stretchers of umbrellas and parasols.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Fox in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
Fox, of Deepcar Works, Sheffield, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Fox, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Fox, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Fox, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF FLAT STEEL WIRE USED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF THE RIBS AND
STRETCHERS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Samuel Fox, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Fox, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
flat steel wire used for the manufacture of the ribs and stretchers of umbrellas,
and parasols. For this purpose, in place of continuing to draw the flat steel
wire, as heretofore, to the desired degree of thinness, the flat wire, after being
drawn through suitable dies to nearly the required section, is completed by
being rolled between rollers; by which process of manufacture it is found that
less waste takes place when bending such flat wire into a hollow or trough-
like form, suitable for the ribs and stretchers of umbrellas and parasols.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same :-

page_text: The workman will, as heretofore, proceed with the process of drawing and
annealing the flat wire till he has nearly brought it to the size desired; then
having annealed the wire (after the last drawing) he will, in place of again
drawing the wire in succession through a further series of dies, finish the wire
by passing it between a pair of smooth hard rolls once or more times. And
although the process may be varied, it is preferred to continue the drawing
process up to within four sizes of the intended finished wire, and then having
annealed the wire after the last drawing, to complete the process by passing
the wire through between hard and smooth rolls, as above stated.
What I claim is the rolling of wire after it has been drawn flat, so as to
render it more suitable for the manufacture of the ribs and stretchers of
umbrellas and parasols.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Fox, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
FRED HARRIS.
SAM FOX. (L.S.)