IMPROVE- MENTS IN ROLLING IRON FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF TIPS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Southwood Stocker, of Wolverhampton,
in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ROLLING IRON FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF TIPS AND OTHER
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 16th June 1863, and dated the 22nd December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Southwood
Stocker at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd December 1862.
I, ALEXANDER SOUTHWOOD STOCKER, of Wolverhampton, in the County of
Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING IRON FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF TIPS & OTHER
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
Instead of rolling iron applicable to the manufacture of tips & other
articles in single bars, as heretofore practised, I roll it in two or more bars
combined, & afterwards divide it into single bars, whereby much economy in
their production is obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Southwood Stocker in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, ALEXANDER
SOUTHWOOD STOCKER, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, Her special licence that I, the said
Alexander Southwood Stocker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING IRON FOR
THE MANUFACTURE OF TIPS AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, 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 mouths next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to rolling iron applicable to the manufacture of
boot heels and toe tips plain on both its surfaces, rendering it suitable to be
worked in conjunction with the process for piercing, indenting, and counter-
sinking the holes (after the rods have been cut and formed into bent blanks)
in accordance with, and as set forth in the Specification of a Patent granted
to myself and son, Alexander Richmond Stocker, and dated March Seventeenth,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, No. 728. I produce the iron in

page_text: two or more bars, and afterwards divide them by the aid of shears or other-
wise.
I do not lay any claim to the rolling of iron, and afterwards dividing it into
two or more bars, this having been done heretofore; but what I claim is
producing iron (as herein set forth) so as to render the same applicable to be
worked in conjunction with the Patent, and in strict accordance with the
peculiar process of piercing, indenting, and countersinking as fully detailed in
the Specification herein-before referred to, and the Drawings thereunto
annexed forming part thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the 9th day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
ALEX. SOUTHWOOD STOCKER. (L.S.)