CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PLATING OR COATING OF COPPER, OR BRASS, OR MIXTURE OF THE SAME WITH OTHER METALS OR MATERIALS, WITH TWO METALS OR SUBSTANCES UPON EACH OTHER; AS ALSO A METHOD OF MAKING SUCH KIND OF ARTICLES OR UTENSILS WITH THE SAID METAL WHEN 60 PLATED AB HAVE HITHERTO BEEN MADE EITHER ENTIRELY OF SILVER, OR OF COPPER OR BRASS, OR OF A MIXTURE OF COPPER AND BRASS, PLATED OR COATED WITH SILVER SOLELY
Year: 1830

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ROBERTS, of Park Grange, near Sheffield, in the County of York, Silver
Plater, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster the Twenty-sixth day of July, in the first year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Roberts, His especial licence.
that I, the said Samuel Roberts, my exors, admors, and assigns, and such
others as I, the said Samuel Roberts, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PLATING OR COATING OF
COPPER, OR BRASS, OR MIXTURE OF THE SAME WITH OTHER METALS OR MATERIALS,
WITH TWO METALS OR SUBSTANCES UPON EACH OTHER; AS ALSO A METHOD OF MAKING
SUCH KIND OF ARTICLES OR UTENSILS WITH THE SAID METAL WHEN 60 PLATED AB
HAVE HITHERTO BEEN MADE EITHER ENTIRELY OF SILVER, OR OF COPPER, OR BRASS,
OR OF A MIXTURE OF COPPER AND BRASS, PLATED OR COATED WITH SILVER SOLELY;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Samuel
Roberts, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in

page_text: and by the same, reference being tliereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Roberts, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention
is to be performed by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
The nature and advantage of my Invention consists in introducing a layer
of German silver or other white or light-coloured metal between the silver and
copper (or copper and brass) usually constituting plated metal. By this means,
whenever the silver is partially or wholly worn off, the defect will scarcely be
perceptible. This may be done either by first plating the copper. ingot with
the white metal, in the same manner that it is usually plated with silver, and
then afterwards laying a coating of silver, in the same way, upon the white
metal; or the white metal and the silver upon it may at one process be both
united in the usual way to the copper.
In plating for wire, a cylinder of the white metal may be plated in the
usual way with silver, and then slipped upon a round ingot of copper or
copper and brass, and the whole drawn through wortles in the usual way; or
the white metal may be first plated upon the copper ingot, and afterwards the
white metal plated with silver in the common way.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Roberts, have hereunto set- my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1830, the aforesaid Samuel Roberts came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of September in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty.