IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF **WIRE
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Sohier Bolton, of the Firm of Thomas
Bolton and Sons, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
**WIRE."
Sealed the 30th June 1863, and dated the 2nd January 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Sohier Bolton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 2nd January 1863.
I, ALFRED SOHIER BOLTON, of the Firm of Thomas Bolton and Sons, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF WIRE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in manufacturing wire in manner hereafter described,
that is to say, I take a tube, pipe, or cylinder of copper or copper alloy, and
place therein a core or rod of solid copper or copper alloy, and I manufacture
wire by rolling or drawing the same, or by both rolling and drawing the same,
to the size required. Or I take a core or rod of copper or copper alloy, and
enclose it in two or more tubes, pipes, or cylinders of copper or copper alloy,
and manufacture it into wire as before described, and that at one or more
operations.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Sohier Bolton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd July 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
SOшIER BOLTON, of the Firm of Thomas Bolton and Sons, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty'Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alfred Sohier Bolton, Her special license that I, the said Alfred
Sohier Bolton, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such othersas
I, the said Alfred Sohier Bolton, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WIRE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Alfred Sohier Bolton, 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 Alfred Sohier Bolton, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in manufacturing wire in manner hereafter described
that is to say, I take a tube, pipe, or cylinder of copper or copper alloy, and
place therein a core or rod of solid copper or copper alloy, and I manufacture
wire by rolling or drawing the same, or by both rolling and drawing the same,
to the size required. Or I take a core or rod of copper or copper alloy, and
enclose it in two or more tubes, pipes, or cylinders of copper or copper alloy,
and manufacture it into wire as before described, and that at one or more
operations. In some cases, instead of using the inner pipes or cylinders

page_text: entire, I divide one or more of them in two or more parts, but in all cases the
outer cylinder must be entire.
Figures 1, 2, and 3 are cross sections, shewing the manner in which I com-
bine the core and cylinder; A is the central core; B an inner tube or cylinder
which at Figure 1 is shewn entire, at Figure 2 divided longitudinally into
two parts, a and b, and at Figure 3 into three parts a, b, and c; C is an outer
tube or cylinder.
Wires made in manner before described are particularly applicable for
electric telegraph purposes.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not limit myself to
the employment of any particular number of tubes or cylinders, but I claim
manufacturing wire by rolling or drawing or by both rolling and drawing a core
or rod of copper or copper alloy enclosed in one or more tubes or cylinders of
copper or copper alloy, whether one or more of the inner tubes or cylinders be
divided longitudinally or not, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Sohier Bolton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of June One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.
ALFRED SOHIER BOLTON. (L.S.)