AN IMPROVEMENT IN PAPERING OR MAKING UP PINS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN PAPERING OR MAKING UP PINS."-Acommunication
from abroad by Edouard Baillet, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 11th December 1874, and dated the 23rd June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 23rd June 1874.
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I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PAPERING OR MAKING UP PINS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to an improvement in papering or making up

page_text: According to the present mode of attaching pins in rows to strips or
sheets of paper or pasteboard, the said strips or sheets require to be torn
or cut with scissors in order to detach a row or portion of a row of pins
therefrom.
Now according to the improvement of this Invention pins are
attached to strips or sheets of paper or pasteboard previously punched,
slit, or perforated in lines which divide the sheet into squares or other
shaped sections, whereby the detachment of any row or portion of a row
of pins may be more readily effected.
Office on the 22nd December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special
licence, that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander
Melville Clark, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PAPERING OR MAKING UP PINS," a com-
munication to me from abroad by Edouard Baillet, of Paris, France,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander Melville
Clark, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under

page_text: 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 months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to an improvement in papering or making up
pins for sale.
According to the present mode of attaching pins in rows to strips or
sheets of paper or pasteboard, the said strips or sheets require to be torn
or cut with the scissors in order to detach a row or portion of a row of
pins therefrom.
Now according to the improvement of this Invention pins of all kinds
are attached to strips or sheets of paper, card, or pasteboard previously.
punched, slit, or perforated in lines which divide the sheet into square
or other shaped sections in the same way as a sheet of postage stamps;
or in lieu thereof the paper or pasteboard may be reduced in thickness
at these points by chemical or mechanical means, whereby the detach-
ment of a row or portion of a row of pins may be much more readily
effected.
The improvement is illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, in
which a shows the paper or card in which the pins 6 are stuck in the
ordinary way, while c are the lines of holes, slits, or perforations which
facilitate the detachment of the pins from the sheet.
Having described the nature of the Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the use
for papering or making up all kinds of pins for sale of strips or sheets of
paper, card, or pasteboard, punched, slit, perforated, or reduced in
thickness along certain lines, or otherwise so as to readily divide into

page_text: square or other shaped sections, to facilitate the detachment of any
portion of the strip or sheet, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four
Witness,
HY. SWALES,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)