IMPROVED WIRE WORK SCREENS to bo
Year: 1884

page_text: I, WILLIAM JAMES GREEN Builder of 36 Friars Street Sudbury Suffolk do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED WIRE WORK SCREENS to
bo as follows:-
'It consists of one long piece of wire as shown on drawing with a loop formed at
end to start with and finished in same manner.
The length of wire is then brought up and down as shown at whatever distance
required. And as the wire is brought up and down, the cross or binding wire is
worked in, same is commenced by taking a pieco of wire, and doubling it in halves
forming a loop where doubled and giving the wire a few twists so as to bring said
loop out sufficiently far to attach. The two halves of wire are then passed one
over and the other under the long wires and as shown Fig & are twisto I once or as
fineness of screen may require twice or three times or not at all and same process
repeated until other side is reached when the wires are twisted a few times as at
begining before loop is formed, the loop is then made, and a fow turns given to
secure it. It is now ready for galvanising if so treated, and is easily fixed by
means of the loops formed by long wire as it is passed up and down, and the loops
of binding or cross wires.
Dated this 6th day of November 1884.

page_text: I, WILLIAM JAMES GREEN Builder of 36 Friars Street Sudbury Suffolk do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED WIRE WORK SCREENS
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
'and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The wire work of screen, or sieve, or any other article for which this improved
kind of wire work would be adapted is arranged in the following manner or
manners.
It consists, firstly or generally of one long piece of wire, as shown on drawing
Fig 1, on the end of which at starting is formed a loop Fig 1 A, The length of wire
is then brought up and down at whatever distance required until desired width is
attained, which proceeding will leave a loop at each end of long wires Fig 1 B's As
these continuous wires are brought up and down, the cross or binding wires are
worked in, in following manner (If for a screen, or any other article of similar
nature where the cross wires are placed at a greater distance apart than the upright
or contrary wires and known generally by the name of straight wired) by taking
n piece of wire the required length, and doubling it in halves, the doubled end is
then twisted for a short way so as to form one strand this strand is then turned
back a short distance, and again twisted, leaving a loop at end Fig 1 D & Fig 2A,
and same is made long enough to allow it to come beyond contrary or upright wire
for fixing purposes, or if for lighter work by simply doubling the wire leaving
sufficient to form loop as before and giving it a few twists so as to bring said loop
sufficiently far to attach to frame work, The two halves, or ends (of preceeding
case as well) are then passed one over and the other under the long wires, as shown
Fig 2 B, and are twisted once or twice or three times, or more, or not at all, as
fineness of screen or other article may require but simply passed under and over,
and same process is repeated until other side is reached, when a loop of similar
description as that formed to start with is made both with cross or binding wires
and finishing end of long or contrary wire or if for lighter work still the binding
or cross wire, may be a single one with a similar loop formed at end to start with
and passed round. first long wire, then brought up to next wire, at whatever
distance required, and passed round that and so on until other side is reached, when
it is finished off with similar loop to that commenced with.
The screen or whatever article it may be is now formed, and is roady for
galvanising if so treated, and for which this manner of making wire work
independent of framework is specially designed.
If the improved wire work is for what is termed diamond work, for sives, or
any other purpose, it is formed by commencing with long or continuous wire
exactly as before but the cross wires in this instance placed closer and differently
arranged, They are commenced by cutting the wires the required length, and
forming a loop of same description as for straight wired at both ends, or loop may
be made by turning round end so as to form a hook or loop to which is administered
a blow with hammer which will flatten the wire, and in that manner render the
loops or hooks stronger and unlikely to bend back, these are then arranged as and
at the distance required and the long or continuous wire is brought under and over

page_text: these wires, as in the manner of ordinary diamond work, until other side is reached,
which is then terminated by a loop in end of long or continuous wire as in case of
straight wired work.
Or in this and all preceeding cases the long or continuous wire might be dispensed
with, and substituted by single wires the required length with a loop formed at
each end, as in cross or binding wire all of which descriptions are easily fixed by
means of loops formed by long and cross wires, The wire work for sieves that aro
round or of any shape that require to be fixed to rims are bent up at sides to proper
shape before being galvanised.
And altho I have devised and explained many means of attaining the same end,
yet I do not confine my claim to the exact minutia described but claim also to
vary the different combinations before enumerated, and also if desirable to use any
general or public means now in use in combination with my improvements as
before specified.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1st For the invention of the loops for fixing purposes formed by long or
continuous wire or loops formed at ends of single wires.
2nd For the loops formed at ends of various cross or binding wires.
3rd For the principal of making wirework with loops all round for fixing
purposes apart from framework so as to enable it to be galvanised.
Dated this 8th day of January 1885.