MAKING AND MANUFACTURING ALL KINDS OF SAWS, STEEL DOCTORS FOR PRINTERS, PLATES MADE OF IRON, ALSO OF STEEL, BEADS, MOULDINGS, AND FENDER PLATES, MADE OF IRON AND STEEL UNITED OR OF IRON OR STEEL, AND ALL SORTS OF SPRINGS MADE OF STEEL, AND OF DIVERS OTHER ARTICLES MADE OF IRON AND STEEL UNITED, AND ALSO OF IRON OR STEEL
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ARNOLD
WILDE and JOSEPH RIDGE, of Little Sheffield, in the County of York, Saw
Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of August, in the thirty-sixth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto us, the said Arnold Wilde and Joseph Ridge,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that we, the said Arnold Wilde and Joseph
Ridge, our executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, from
time to time and at all times thenafter during the term of fourteen years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
our Invention of "MAKING AND MANUFACTURING ALL KINDS OF SAWS, STEEL
DOCTORS FOR PRINTERS, PLATES MADE OF IRON, ALSO OF STEEL, BEADS, MOULDINGS,
AND FENDER PLATES, MADE OF IRON AND STEEL UNITED OR OF IRON OR STEEL, AND
ALL SORTS OF SPRINGS MADE OF STEEL, AND OF DIVERS OTHER ARTICLES MADE OF
IRON AND STEEL UNITED, AND ALSO OF IRON OR STEEL," within England, Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso that if we, the said Arnold Wilde and Joseph Ridge,
shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention,
aud in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, and cause the same to be inrolled in
the High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and imme
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters

page_text: Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should
utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the said Letters Patent, on
reference being thereunto bad, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, therefore, that we, the said Arnold Wilde and Joseph
Ridge, do hereby declare that our said Invention of Making and Manufac-
turing all Kinds of Saws, Steel Doctors for Printers, Plates made of Iron,
also of Steel, Beads, Mouldings, and Fender Plates, made of Iron and Steel
United or of Iron or Steel, and all Sorts of Springs made of Steel, and divers
others Articles made of Iron and Steel United, and also of Iron or Steel, is
particularly described and ascertained in manner following, that is to say:―
When the steel or iron is pared or cut into proper shape, the saws,
doctors for printers, plates of iron or steel, beads, mouldings, and fender
plates, whether made of iron and steel united or of iron or steel, and all sorts
of springs made of steel, and divers other articles made of iron and steel
united, and also of iron or steel, are put into a frame of metal or otherwise.
They may then be made red hot in the said frame, and stretched by screw,
spring, weight, or any other proper power or purchase, and so formed into a
curve, straight, or any other direction wanted. They are then to be immersed
in water or a composition of oils or grease, to be hardened in the frame in the
direction wanted; and when so hardened they are also to be tempered in the
same direction in the frame over fire; and, when the saw, doctor for printers,
or plate, is over the fire, it must be kept in motion over the fire 'til the oil or
grease upon the said saw, doctor, or plate smokes. It is then to be gently
stretched, and continually kept moving over the fire 'til a blue blazo alter-
nately appears and disappears. It is then to be stretched with as much
power as will bring it into the direction required. The saw, doctor, or plate is
next to be put into another frame, which may be made to move upwards and
downwards, or in any other direction necessary, by crank or any other move-
ment, between proper stones, or between plates of metal, blocks of wood, or
any other material that will grind or polish, with sand, emery, or other proper
material, to grind and polish the saws, steel doctors for printers, plates made
of iron, also of steel, bends, mouldings, and fender plates, made of iron and
steel united or of iron or steel, and all sorts springs made of steel, and divers
other articles made of iron and steel united, and also of iron or steel. But if
the saw, doctor, or plate is not intended to be hardened, it must be made red
hot, and stretched with as much power as will bring it into the direction
wanted. It must then lie in the open air in the frame in the said direction
required 'til cold; then to be ground by a machine for the purpose of
grinding and polishing in a frame the said saws, steel doctors for printers,

page_text: plates made of iron, also of steel, beads, mouldings, and fender plates, made
of iron and steel united or of iron or steel, and all sorts of springs made of
steel, and divers other articles made of iron and steel united, and also of iron
or steel, which machine is to move the said saw, doctor, or plate, by means of
a crank or otherwise, as before expressed, and which motion will
pare, tooth,
smith, finish, set the teeth of saws, sharpen, grind and polish plates made of
iron or steel or of iron and steel united, and form beads and mouldings and
various other articles.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twentieth day of September, in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c.,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-
six.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1796, the aforesaid Arnold Wilde and Joseph Ridge
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 stampt
according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.