AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF CONDUCTING " A communication WIRE FOR FLORIC TELEORAN
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughts-
man, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF CONDUCTING
" A communication
WIRE FOR FLORIC TELEORAN
"
A communication
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th December 1854.
1, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF CONDUCTING
WIRE FOR ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS" to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to produce a conducting wire which shall
have the strength of iron and the conducting power of copper. For this
pur-
pose, iron and copper wires are combined together, by twisting or otherwise,
and thus a cable or compound wire is produced, which is then to be coated
with any suitable insulating material; or, instead of effecting this object by
using copper wire, iron wire may be used as a core, and coated with copper
by the electrotype process, or other known means.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 11th June 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year of our
Lord. One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special license that I, the said Alfred Vincent
Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, usc,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MANU-
FACTURE OF CONDUCTING WIRE FOR ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS," being a communication
from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, 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
tlie 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 Vincent Newton, 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 (that is to say):-
The object of this Invention, as communicated to me by my foreign corre-
spondent, is to produce a wire for the transmission of electric currents, which
wire shall possess the strength of iron and the conducting power of copper.
For this purpose, iron wire of any suitable gauge or strength is provided, and
by the aid of the electrotype process it is coated with copper. A bath com-
posed of an alkaline solution of copper is prepared to receive the iron wire,
which being wound upon a reel is guided into and passed slowly through the
bath, traversing in its course over and under guide rollers, so as to present a
large quantity of the wire to the action of a limited quantity of the copper
solution. The proper connections between the electrodes in the bath and the

page_text: galvanic battery being made in the usual way, a deposit of copper on the iron
wire will take place, and as this coating of copper is obtained, the wire is drawn
slowly out of the bath and cleansed by hand, or by being passed through a
water bath, and afterwards through some absorbent material, which will remove
all moisture from the wire; or the moisture may be driven off by the applica-
tion of heat. It will thus be seen that the coating of the wire will be a
continuous operation, and it will be understood that the speed at which the
wire travels through the bath must be regulated according to the thickness of
copper coating required to be given to the wire.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "An Improved
Manufacture of Conducting Wire for Electric Telegraphs," as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent, and explained the manner of carrying the
same into effect, I wish it to be understood that, under the above in part
recited Letters Patent, I claim the manufacture of electric telegraph wires, as
above set forth, whereby wires combining great strength and a high con-
ducting power are obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, the Eleventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)