AN IM. PROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMOWER IN MUR MANHPACture or TrA KETTLES IN THE MANUFACTURE OR TEA KETTLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Henry Adames, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IM.
PROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMOWER IN MUR MANHPACture or TrA KETTLES
IN THE MANUFACTURE OR TEA KETTLES”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Henry
Adames at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 7th January 1873.
I, CHARLES HENRY ADAMES, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEA
KETTLES," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention refers to the manufacture of wrought-iron tea kettles.
The usual mode of making these articles is by cutting out the bottom,
the body, and the top or neck in three separate parts, and then after
bringing these parts together into a rude approach to the form desired,
partly by means of stamps, and partly by hammering, they are secured
by brass soldering or brazing, the form being afterwards finished by

page_text: hammering. This method is tedious and has the further objection that
the joints are liable to leak.
My improvements consist in forming the body and bottom of the
kettle in one piece by stamping, and afterwards affixing the top or neck
in the usual way by brazing; thus I save two joints, the one round the
bottom and the other up the body of the kettle, these being the parts
the most exposed to the action of the fire, and thus a wrought-iron
kettle may be made in two parts only and by two operations only,
stamping and brazing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Henry Adames in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HENRY ADAMES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Charles Henry Adames, Her special
license that I, the said Charles Henry Adames, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Henry
Adames, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TEA
KETTLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles
Henry Adames, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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.
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page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Henry Adames, 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 :-
1
This Invention refers to the manufacture of wrought-iron tea kettles.
The usual mode of making these articles is by cutting out the bottom,
the body, and the top or neck in three separate parts, and then after
bringing these parts together into a rude approach to the form desired,
partly by means of stamps, and partly by hammering, they are secured
by brass soldering or brazing, the form being afterwards finished by
hammering. This method is tedious and has the further objection that
the joints are liable to leak.
My improvements consist in forming the body and bottom of the
kettle in one piece by stamping and afterwards affixing the top or neck
in the usual way by brazing, thus I save two joints, the one round the
bottom and the other up the body of the kettle, these being the parts
the most exposed to the action of the fire, and thus a wrought-iron
kettle may be made in two parts only and by two operations only,
stamping and brazing.
Having thus described the object and nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, I claim
without confining myself to theso precise details, the improvement or
improvements in the manufacture of tea kettles, substantially in manner
as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Henry Adames, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
thrce.
CHARLES HENRY ADAMES. (L.S.)