AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SHAPING METALS."
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stephen Barker, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SHAPING METALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stephen Barker
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 12th November 1853.
I, STEPHEN BARKER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SHAPING METALS" to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in making the ornamental metallic wire
used for the edges of plated wares and other purposes by the process
of rolling.
Fig. 1, represents the said wire in section. The said wire
without the shoulder a is usually made by rolling, and the said
wire with the said shoulder a, but without the ornament b, is made
by drawing. By my Invention I make the said wire having both the-

page_text: ornament b, and the shoulder a, by rolling, and I effect this by rolls,
the section of which will be understood by Fig. 2. The ornament b
may be varied, and my Invention is applicable to wire of all sizes.
Fig. 3, shews the ornamental wire in plan; and Fig. 4, is an edge
view
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Stephen Barker in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
STEPHEN BARKER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, send greeting:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the

page_text: year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Stephen Barker, Her special
licence that I, the said Stephen Barker, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Stephen Barker, my execu-
tors, 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 IMPROVEMENT
OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SHAPING METALS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Stephen Barker, 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 Stephen Barker, 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 thereof (that is to say):
My Invention consists in making the ornamental metallic wire used
for the edges of plated wares and other purposes by the process of
rolling. Figure 1, represents in plan a portion of the said wire; and
Figure 2, represents an end view of the same. The ornament upon
the said wire may be varied, and the said wire may be made of different
sizes. In the ordinary methods of manufacturing the said wire the
part a, having the ornament thereon, but without the shoulder b, is
made by rolling, or the said wire without the said ornament, but with
the shoulder b, is made by the process of drawing. My Invention
consists in making the said wire complete, that is to say, having both
the ornament and the shoulder b, by rolling, and I effect this by rolls,
having the form represented in elevation in Figure 3, in which said
Figure the spaces marked a, b, between the rolls correspond to the
parts a, b, of the wire, Figure 2, that is to say,.a plane or wedge-shaped

page_text: or other suitably formed bar or strip of metal on being passed between
the rolls, Figure 3, at the points marked a, b, will be shaped or formed
into a wire of the shape represented in Figures 1 and 2. In Figure 3
I have represented a pair of rolls suitable for manufacturing three
different sizes of the wire, Figures 1 and 2, but the rolls may be
constructed singly, that is to say, suitable only for the production of one
size of the said wire, or the said rolls may be constructed to make two
or more wires of the same or different patterns, and of the same or
different sizes. I sometimes modify my Invention by making grooves
in the upper roll at the several places indicated by dotted lines, and
marked c, in which case the collars or shoulders d, d, d, of the lower
roll must be somewhat less in diameter than is represented, and the
parts e, e, of the upper roll somewhat greater in diameter than repre-
sented. In this modification the shoulder of the wire b, Figure 2,
is formed by the metal entering the recesses c, c, of the upper roll, but
I prefer carrying my Invention into effect according to the method
herein first described.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the precise methods herein described, as the
same may be varied without departing from the nature of my said
Invention; but I claim as my Invention making the ornamental
metallic wire herein described and represented, and used for the
manufacture of plated wares and other purposes, by the process of
rolling, as herein described and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stephen Barker, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four."
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
STEPHEN BARKER. (L.S.)