CERTAIN IM- PROVEMENTS IN POLISHING OR PLANISHING AND MANUFACTURING OR MAKING LADLES, SPOONS, AND OTHER ARTICLES FOR CULINARY, DOMESTIC, AND OTHER PURPOSES MADE
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JosEph
MAYBURY, JOHN MAYBURY and JOSEPH MAYBURY the younger, of Bilston, in
the County of Stafford, Ironmasters, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King William the Fourth, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-fourth day of January last, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto us, the said Joseph Maybury, John Maybury,
and Joseph Maybury the younger, our exors, admors, or assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said Joseph
Maybury, John Maybury, and Joseph Maybury the younger, our exors,
adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by ourselves and themselves, or by
our deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as we, the said
Joseph Maybury, John Maybury, and Joseph Maybury the younger, our exors,
admors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England and
Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN POLISHING OR PLANISHING AND MANUFACTURING OR MAKING LADLES,
SPOONS, AND OTHER ARTICLES FOR CULINARY, DOMESTIC, AND OTHER PURPOSES MADE

page_text: OF IRON. AND TINNED;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging us, the said Joseph Maybury, John Maybury, and John Maybury
the younger, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature
of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and
to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully appear.
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NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Joseph Maybury, John Maybury, and Joseph Maybury the younger, do
hereby describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by the Plan or Drawing in the margin
of these Presents, and the following description thereof (that is to say):
The machine may be worked or driven by steam, water, horse, or other
power. The wheel No. 1 is the first motion or driving or connecting wheel.
No. 2 is the shaft. Nos. 3 are the crabs or coupling boxes to throw the machine
in or out of gear. No. 4, the spindles. No. 5, a pair of pinions or toothed
cylinders to drive the rolls No. 6, which are a pair of highly planished or
polished rolls made of cast iron chilled, or of steel or other hard metal that
will take the highest polish, for upon the polish of the rolls depends the quality
of the work. No. 7 are the housings and frame to carry the rolls. No. 8
are screws to elevate or depress the rolls and pinions according to the thickness
of the work intended to be planished. No. 9 is an end view of the train of
rolls and pinions. The planishing rolls in this Drawing are twelve inches
diameter and fifteen inches long; but for planishing tin plates of a greater
width than fifteen inches of course the planishing rolls will require to be
made of a corresponding length. The iron for tinning should be of the best
quality, and rolled to the thickness required by the article intended to be
manufactured; it is then annealed and tinned in the usual way, and called tin
plate; it is then passed between the polished rolls which polishes or planishes
the tin plate or iron so tinned, and thereby saves much manual labor, the
mode heretofore practised for polishing or planishing being by hand hammer's
and a steady or anvil. The manner in which we make and planish spoons and
ladles is as follows:-Cut the spoon or ladle out of the best strip or sheet iron
by means of a press; then anneal, pickle, and tin it in the usual way before it
is bowled; afterwards pass it thro' the planishing rolls which planishes it; it is
then bowled in a pair of highly planished bowling or sinking dies in the
manner heretofore used, except that the dies are highly planished or polished;

page_text: when bowled it is set by hand, and finished in the usual way by the polishing
bob.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the
Sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-two.
JOSEPH MAYBURY.
JOHN MAYBURY.
(L.B.)
(L.B.)
JOSEPH MAYBURY, Jun'. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1832, the aforesaid Joseph Maybury, John Maybury, and
Joseph Maybury the younger, came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained-and-specified, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped accord to the tenor of the Statute made
for that purpose.