AN. IMPROVED MODE OF JOINTING OR CONNECTING TELEGRAPH WIRES, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO JOINTING OR CONNECTING SIGNAL WIRES, FENCING WIRES, AND OTHER" WIRES OR RODS
Year: 1861

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Potter at the Office;
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th December
1861.
I, JOHN POTTER, of Leeds, in the County of York, a Partner in the Firm'
of Henry Joseph Morton & Co., of the same Place, Wire Fencing Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN.
IMPROVED MODE OF JOINTING OR CONNECTING TELEGRAPH WIRES, WHICH IS ALSO
APPLICABLE TO JOINTING OR CONNECTING SIGNAL WIRES, FENCING WIRES, AND OTHER"
WIRES OR RODS," to be as follows:-
Each of the wires to be jointed or connected is passed through a
separate"
conical-shaped ferule, and a rivet head is then formed at the end of each wire,
which will prevent the wires from being drawn back out of their ferules. One"
of the ferules has a male screw, which is hollowed to admit of the wire passing"

page_text: thro' it and the other ferule has a female screw. Behind the thread of the
female screw and within the ferule is a chamber or socket to admit of the
rivet heads of both the wires. The two ferules when screwed together form
a close joint, and by reason of the rivet heads forming a kind of collar upon
their respective wires, when the ferules are screwed together the revit heads
of the wires within the socket are pressed or drawn into contact, and form
thereby a continuous length of wire or strand.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by
the said John Potter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
POTTER, of Leeds, in the County of York, a Partner in the Firm of Henry
Joseph Morton and Company, of the same Place, Wire Fencing Manufac
turers, 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 sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Potter, Her special license that I, the said John Potter, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Potter, 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 MODE OP
JOINTING OR CONNECTING TELEGRAPH WIRES, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO JOINTING
OR CONNECTING SIGNAL WIRES, FENCING WIRES, AND OTHER WIRES OR RODS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John- Potter, by an instru-
ment, 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 John Potter, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following

page_text: statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):
:
In carrying out my Invention of an improved mode of jointing or con-
necting telegraph wires, the wires to be jointed or connected are passed
through separate conical-shaped ferules or blocks, and a rivet; head is then
formed at the end of each of the wires. This will prevent..the wires from
being drawn back out of the ferules or blocks: Both the ferules or; blocks
are hollowed to admit. of the wire passing through, and one of them is pro
vided with a male screw, the other with a female screw, into which, the male
screw enters., Behind the thread of the female screw and within the ferule
is a chamber or socket to admit the rivet heads of both the wires. When the
two ferules or blocks are screwed together the rivet heads of the wires within
the socket are pressed or drawn into contact, thereby forming a continuous
length of wire or strand, whilst the ferules or blocks themselves form a close
fitting joint, as shewn in the accompanying Drawing, in which are shewn
various views of different plans for carrying out my Invention.
Figure 1 is an external side view of one of my improved modes of con-
necting telegraph or other wires; Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the
same, shewing the rivet heads at the ends of the two wires; Figure 3, the
two parts of the ferule or block separated, but 'ready to be screwed up into
place.
A, A, are the wires or rods, which require to be connected, and the ends of
which pass through the ferules or blocks B and B. A male screw is made
on the forward end of the ferule or block B, and a female screw is cut.or
tapped in the ferule or block B¹. When the two parts B and B are screwed
The wires.
up, a chamber C is formed behind the threads of the screws.
which are passed through their respective ferules have rivet heads formed at
the ends of each in any convenient manner, and these rivet heads lie in the
chamber C of the blocks B and B', which are then screwed up, and the two
ends of the wires will thereby be connected, and at the same time will form a
close joint.
As a modification of the above mode of construction the rivet heads may be
dispensed with, and the ends of the wires simply upset or bulged out to such
an extent as will prevent them from being drawn out through the ferules or
blocks B, B. Figure 4 is a side view, and Figure 5 a longitudinal section,
shewing this mode of constructing the parts. Figure 6 represents the two
parts B, B, detached or separated; but ready to be united by screwing them
up as in the former Figures. On referring to Figure 5 it will be seen that
the ends of the wires are swelled out, and the holes or openings in the blocks

page_text: 'B, B', are made conical, so that the swelled out ends of the wires will fit
therein, and upon screwing up the blocks B, B', the conical ends of the wires
will be brought into contact, as shewn in the Figure.
Having now described my Invention of an improved mode of jointing or
connecting telegraph wires, and having explained the manner of carrying the
same into effect, I would observe that this mode of jointing or connecting
wires is also applicable to jointing or connecting signal wires, fencing wires,
and other wires or rods, I do not therefore mean or intend to limit myself to
jointing or connecting telegraphic wires; 'I therefore claim as the Invention
'secured to me by Letters Patent, as aforesaid, the mode herein set forth of
connecting or jointing wires or metal rods.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Potter, have hereunto set mý
hand and seal, this Sixth day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two.
Signed and sealed by the said John
Potter, in the presence of
J. B. WILKINSON,
27, East Parade, Leeds.
JOHN POTTER. (L.S.).