CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FENCINGS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Denis Daniel Buhler, of Paris, in the Empire of
France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FENCINGS."
Sealed the 3rd November 1855, and dated the 27th June 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Denis Daniel Buhler at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th June 1855.
I, DENIS DANIEL BUHLER, of Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South
Street, Finsbury, London, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FENCINGS" to be as follows,
that is to say
My improvements relate to apparatus or means for forming or pressing wire
or bands of iron or other metal into certain designs suitable for the construc-
tion of fences and for other purposes.
The apparatus employed is represented in Figure 1. G is a bed plate or
mould on which the grooves forming the design are made. At one end is
placed a bearing, to which is attached by means of a stud pin the lever A,
having dies or projections corresponding to the design on the bed plate G.
Rivet holes are formed in the same manner as represented in the Drawing:
The band D is placed on the top of the mould, & the lever is brought.down

page_text: by the handle C by any mechanical means, such as cams, &c. The pressure
given to it will cause the iron-band to assume the shape of the mould.
B, Figure 2, represents fencing. constructed by the above means. Figures
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9 represent different designs made according to my Invention.
The same object is accomplished by means of rollers or corrugated cylinders
F, E, worked by steam or other power, suitable designs being made on their
circumference.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Denis Daniel Buhler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th December 1855. **
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE... PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DENIS
DANIEL BUHLER, of Paris, in the Empire of France, and of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, send greeting
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WHEREAS Her most, Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our, Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, "Her heirs and successors; give and grant, unto me,
the said Denis Daniel Buhler, Her spécial license that I, the said Denis
Daniel Bubler, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Denis Daniel Buhler, my executors, administrators, and, assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others from time to time and at
all times "tliercafter during the ferm 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS, IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FENCINGS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said, Denis Daniels Buhler, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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, Denis Daniel Buhler; 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, reference being had to the. Drawing: hereto, annexed, and
to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say

page_text: This Invention consists in improved apparatus for forming or pressing iron
wire or bands of iron or other suitable metal into fencings, plain or ornamental,
suitable for parks, gardens, churches, cemeteries, &c. &c.
Figures 1 and 2 represent sections of the apparatus employed. It consists
of a frame or mould A, composed of steel or wrought iron, with angular or
other suitably shaped grooves B made in it. It is provided at one end with
a bearing C, in which works the lever die D, composed of the same metal as
the mould. On this lever are formed projecting dies E and pins F, which
exactly fit the grooves and holes of the mould underneath. At the short end
of the lever D is a counterpoise weight G; at the opposite end of the lever
is a handle, or it may be worked by cams, &c. H represents the wire or iron
band, the part I shewing the form it assumes after passing through the
apparatus. Figure 3 is a view of a portion of fencing constructed in this
manner.
Figure 2 shews another mode of accomplishing the same object. In this
instance the apparatus consists of two steel or wrought-iron rollers; upon the
circumference of one are grooves or indentations, according to the design
required, and on the other corresponding projections or dies. Between these
rollers the wire or iron band is fed, when the rollers, being turned round
by any suitable power, gives the wire or iron band a corresponding shape or
configuration, and which ornamental bands when secured together form a
light, elegant, and substantial fencing, suitable for purposes before mentioned.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have, it understood that what I
claim is, the apparatus or means for the construction of fencings of wire or
bands of iron or other metal, as herein-before described, and referred to in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Denis Daniel Buhler, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-five.
BÜHLER. (L.S.)