IMPROVEMENTS IN PIANOFORTES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Jobson, of Dundee, in the County of
Forfar, North Britain, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PIANOFORTES."
Sealed the 26th February 1869, and dated the 1st September 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Jobson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st September 1868.
I, EDWARD JOBSON, of Dundee, in the County of Forfar, North Britain,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PIANOFORTES," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention, which relates to improvements in those parts of piano-
fortes known as hammers or strikers, consists in covering them with
velvet or other piled fabric composed of silk, cotton, wool, or other
elastic fibrous material, the result being greater durability and the
production of a finer tone than with hammers or strikers covered with

page_text: felt or leather as hitherto. By means of this improved covering the
shape of the hammer is also preserved.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Jobson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 26th February 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
JOBSON, of Dundee, in the County of Forfar, North Britain, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Jobson, Her special
license that I, the said Edward Jobson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Jobson, my exccutors,
administrators, or 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, excrcise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN. PIANO-
FORTES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward
Jobson, 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 Edward Jobson, 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, which relates to improvements in those parts of
pianofortes known as hammers or strikers, consists in covering them
with velvet or other piled fabric composed of silk, cotton, wool, or other
elastic fibrous material, the result being greater durability and the pro-

page_text: duction of a finer tone than with the hammers or strikers covered with
felt or leather as hitherto. By means of this improved covering the
shape of the hammer is also preserved.
And in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood I
have hereunto appended a Sheet of Drawings, the figure on which
represents the side clevation of a hammer constructed in accordance
with my improvements, that is to say, it is covered or overlaid with the
strip of velvet or other similar material marked a.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is or may be used or practically carried into.
effect, I wish it to be understood that what I consider novel and
original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the covering of the
hammers or strikers of pianofortes with velvet or other piled fabric
composed of silk, cotton, wool, or other elastic fibrous material as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Jobson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.