AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC STRIPS OR BANDS APPLICABLE TO LADIES' SKIRTS
Year: 1859

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 METALLIC
STRIPS OR BANDS APPLICABLE TO LADIES' SKIRTS."-A communication from
abroad by William Sparks Thomson, of New York, in the United States
of America.
Sealed the 6th March 1860, and dated the 7th September 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition on the
7th September 1859.
I, 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 METALLIC
STRIPS OR BANDS APPLICABLE TO LADIES' SKIRTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a mode of imparting the requisite clasticity to steel
and other metal strips or bands, (which are intended to be used in the manu-
facture of hooped skirts) with the employment of less weight of metal than
heretofore. To this end, instead of rolling the metal into flat strips, it is now
proposed to corrugate the strips, in the direction of their length, by the appli-
eation of either a pressing, rolling, or drawing process, the operating surfaces
being shaped to correspond to the ridges and furrows required to be produced
in the metal to be operated upon.

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 7th March 1860.
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 Seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third 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 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 IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC STRIPS OR BANDS APPLICABLE TO
LADIES' SKIRTS," being a communication from abroad by William Sparks
Thomson, of New York, in the United States of America, 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 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 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, reference being had to the Diagram herein-after referred
to, and the letters marked thereon (that is to say,
In the manufacture of hooped skirt or crinoline steel or other metal bands
it is important to obtain the requisite amount of resilient action by the use of
a minimum weight of metal. Hitherto this action has been regulated by
means of the thickness of the bands, but the disadvantages of this plan are
obvious, for hoops formed of light bands are very liable to get out of shape,
and when made of thicker bands are liable to snap if subjected to undue
compression. Now the object of the Invention communicated to me by my

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foreign correspondent, is to increase the resilient action of the metallic hoops,
of ladies' skirts without adding to, but rather diminishing the weight of the
metal heretofore used in manufacturing the same. To this end, instead of
rolling the metal into flat strips, it is now proposed to corrugate the strips in
the direction of their length, after the manner shown in the
marginal Drawing, where A represents in plan view, and B
in edge view a piece of a hooped skirt metal band magnified
to six diameters. This corrugating of the metal may be
effected by the use of suitably shaped dies applied to a fly or
stamping press, or by grooved rollers up to which the strips
of plain metal are to be fed, or between which they are
drawn, the rollers in the latter case receiving motion from
the drag of the metal; or, lastly, by being drawn between
fixed dies after the manner of wire drawing, the operating
surfaces being shaped to correspond to the ridges and furrows
required to be produced in the metal to be operated upon.
An advantage consequent on the corrugating of the metal is that sufficient
elasticity may be imparted to iron and brass strips or bands to admit of their
being used as an efficient substitute for steel.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "An Improved Manu-
facture of Metallic Strips or Bands applicable to Ladies' Skirts," as commu-
nicated to me from abroad, 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 metallic strips or bands in the manner.
and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Seventh day of March in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.'
Witness,
T. NOLAN,
66, Chancery Lane.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)