IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL METALLIC TUBES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jerome Valentine Jones and George James
Williams, both of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
ORNAMENTAL METALLIC TUBES."
Sealed the 25th September 1868, and dated the 3rd April 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jerome Valentine Jones
and George James Williams at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 3rd April 1868.
We, JEROME VALENTINE JONES and GEORGE JAMES WILLIAMS, both
of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL METALLIC TUBES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists, firstly, of the following improvements in the
manufacture of open jointed ornamental tubes.

page_text: In making the said tubes according to our Invention we take a plain
strip of sheet brass or other sheet metal of the required length and
width, and we pass it through a pair of ornamental rolls so as to indent
or impress upon the said strip the ornamental pattern upon the said
rolls; for example, in preparing or ornamenting the said strip for the
manufacture of a tube having a twisted or fluted convex pattern or
ornament upon it one of the rolls has upon its surface a series of pro-
jections, and the other roll has upon its surface a series of depressions
of a corresponding figure by passing the plain strip of sheet brass or
other metal through such rolls a series of raised flutes or twists arc
impressed or indented upon it. The strip thus ornamented is bent into
an open jointed tube in the manner commonly practised in the manu-
facture of ordinary open jointed tubes and an ornamental open jointed
tube thereby made.
Tubes made according to our Invention may be ornamented with any
desired pattern or design.
Ornamental open jointed tubes made according to our Invention are
applicable to the manufacture of fenders, bedsteads, and metallic
furniture. The said tubes. may also be used for beadings for various
articles and for various other purposes. where ornamental open jointed
tubes may be used.
Our Invention consists, secondly, of the following improvements in the
manufacture of open jointed ornamental cased tubes, that is, tubes
made of a thin outer brass or other tube with an internal support or
foundation of slicet iron.
In making open jointed ornamental cased tubes according to our
Invention we take a thin strip of sheet brass or other sheet metal, and
we bend or turn up its edges at right angles to the other part. Upon
the said thin strip a somewhat narrower strip of sheet iron is placed
and the edges of the thin strip of brass or other metal are turned down
upon the sheet iron strip; this is effected by rolls or otherwise.. We
then pass the compound strip through ornamental rolls of the kind
herein-before described and thereby impress or indent the said strip
with the pattern or design upon the rolls. The ornamented compound
strip is bent into an open jointed tube in the ordinary manner.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jerome Valentine Jones and George James
Williams in the Great Scal Patent Office on the 26th September
1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JEROME
VALENTINE JONES and GEORGE JAMES WILLIAMS, both of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Jerome Valentine Jones and George James
Williams, Her special licence that we, the said Jerome Valentine Jones
and George James Williams, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Jerome Valentine Jones and George
James Williams, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL METALLIC TUBES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Jerome Valentne
Jones and George James Williams, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 George James Williams, on behalf
of myself and the said Jerome Valentine Jones, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to he
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists, firstly, of the following improvements in the
manufacture of open jointed ornamental tubes.

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In making the said tubes according to our Invention we take a plain
strip of sheet brass or other sheet metal of the required length and
width, and we pass it through a pair of ornamental rolls so as to indent
or impress upon the said strip the ornamental pattern on the said
rolls; for example, in preparing or ornamenting the said strip for the
manufacture of a tube having a twisted or fluted convex pattern or
ornament upon it, one of the rolls has upon its surface a series of pro-
jections, and the other roll has upon its surface a series of depressions
of a corresponding figure. By passing the plain strip of sheet brass
or other metal through such rolls a series of raised flutes or twists are
impressed or indented upon it. The strip thus ornamented is bent into
an open jointed tube in the manner commonly practised in the manu-
facture of ordinary open jointed tubes and an ornamental open jointed
tube thereby made.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in plan and
longitudinal section a strip of sheet brass or other metal which has been
ornamented with a pattern for a twisted or fluted tube by being passed
through ornamental rolls of the kind described, that is to say,
through rolls one of which has upon its surface a series of projections,
and the other roll has upon its surface a series of depressions of a
corresponding figure.
Figure 2 represents in side and end elevation, an open jointed tube
made from the ornamented strip Figure 1 in the manner commonly
practised in making ordinary open jointed tubes from plain strips of
.sheet metal.
Tubes made according to our Invention may be ornamented with any
desired pattern or design.
Ornamental open jointed tubes made according to our Invention
are applicable to the manufacture of fenders, bedsteads, and metallic
furniture. The said tubes may also be used for beadings for various
articles and for various other purposes where ornamental open jointed
'tubes may be used.
Our Invention consists, secondly, of the following improvements in
the manufacture of open jointed ornamental cased tubes, that is,
tubes made of a thin outer brass or other tube with an internal
support or foundation of sheet iron or other sufficiently hard metal or
alloy.

page_text: In making open jointed ornamental cased tubes according to our
Invention we take a thin strip of sheet brass or other sheet metal, and
we bend or turn up its edges at right angles to the other part. Upon
the said thin strip a somewhat narrower strip of sheet iron or other
sheet metal is placed, and the edges of the thin strip of brass or other
metal are turned down upon the sheet iron or other metal strip; this
is effected by rolls or otherwise. We then pass the compound strip
through ornamental rolls of the kind herein-before described, and thereby
impress or indent the said strip with the pattern or design upon the
rolls. The ornamented compound strip is bent into an open jointed tube
in the ordinary manner.
Figure 3 represents in cross section and longitudinal section the thin
metal strip and its inner or strengthening strip from which an open
jointed ornamental cased tube is to be made. In the said Figure 3 the
thin sheet metal strip is marked a and its bent or turned up edges are
marked a². The inner strip or strengthening part of sheet iron or
other sufficiently hard metal or alloy is marked c, the said strip c being
laid upon the thin strip a in the manner represented.
Figure 4 represents in end clevation and plan the two strips after
they have been passed through the rolls, and the edges a³ of the strip a
turned down upon the sheet iron or other strip c, so as thereby to secure
the two strips together. The turning down of the edges a may be
effected by dies or otherwise, instead of by rolls. The compound strip
Figure 4 is treated in the manner described with respect to the plain
strip from which the ornamented strip, Figure 1, is made, and the orna-
mented compound strip is made into an open jointed ornamental cased
tube in the manner described with respect to the ornamented strip Figure 1.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood
that we do not limit ourselves to the precise details herein described
and illustrated, as the same may be varied without departing from the
nature of our Invention; but we claim as our Invention,―
Firstly. The improvements in the manufacture of open jointed
ornamental metallic tubes herein-before described and illustrated in
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, making
the said tubes by taking a plain strip of shect brass or other sheet
metal, and indenting or impressing upon the said strip the required
ornamental pattern or design by means of rolls, and finally bending

page_text: the ornamented strip into an open jointed tube in the ordinary
manner.
Secondly. The improvements in the manufacture of open jointed
ornamental cased metallic tubes herein-before described and illustrated
in Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying Drawing, that is to say,
making the said tubes by taking a compound strip made substantially
in the manner described, ornamenting the said compound strip by rolls,
and finally bending the compound ornamented strip into an open jointed
tube in the ordinary manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said George James Williams, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of Sep-
tember, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
GEORGE JAMES WILLIAMS. (L.S.)
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.