AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DRAWER AND OTHER KNOBS OP DIFFERENT SORTS AND FORMS USED WITH OR APPIXED TO CABINET AND OTHER FURNITURE OR THINGS
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WALKER JENKINS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass Founder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing
date at Westminster, the Ninth day of September, in the fifty-first year of
His said Majesty's reign, granted unto me, the said William Walker Jenkins,
His especial licence that I might, during the term of years therein mentioned,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING
DRAWER AND OTHER KNOBS OP DIFFERENT SORTS AND FORMS USED WITH OR
APPIXED TO CABINET AND OTHER FURNITURE OR THINGS;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me to enrol or cause to be enrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, within two calendar months next
after the date of such Letters Patent, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed, or otherwise that the
said Letters Patent should be void, as in and by the same Letters Patent,.
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in order to comply with the said proviso, I
declare my said Invention to be that of making drawer and other knobs of
materials different in certain parts hereafter described to those heretofore used,
and the drawer and other knobs made by my said improved method are of
three sorts, that is to say:-
I make my first sort with bodies composed of tinned sheet iron, commonly
called tin plate, or of sheet iron or cast iron, which method is different to
that hitherto practised in the manufacturing thereof, inasmuch that they have
heretofore had bodies composed of brass or composition metal called rolled
metal.
The second sort of drawer and other knobs made by my said improved
method are composed of the same kind of bodies as my first sort, but the
roses thereof are made out of tinned sheet iron called tin plate, which method
is also different to the mode hitherto practised in the manufacturing of them,
because they have heretofore had both bodies and roses composed of brass or
composition metal called rolled metal.
The third sort of drawer and other knobs made by my said improved method
are composed of the same kind of bodies and roses as my second sort, but the
fronts thereof are made out of tinned sheet iron called tin plate, which is
likewise different to the mode heretofore practised in the manufacturing of
them, as by the mode' hitherto used they have had bodies, roses, and fronts
composed of brass or composition metal called rolled metal. Therefore I have
in' the above explained in what way my improved method of manufacturing
drawer and other knobs differs from the mode of making them heretofore used.
And as to the finishing of the bodies for each of my three sort of drawer and
other knobs so above described, I cut out the blanks, stainp, burnish, clear off,
and lacker those composed of tinned sheet iron called tin plate, and I tin,
varnish, 'or lacker, as may be requisite, those composed of slicet iron, after the
same are cut out and stamped; and I also tin, varnish, or lacker, as may be
requisite, these composed of cast iron after the same are cast, and I then
combine the bodies so made with the other necessary parts. And with respect
to my mode of finishing the roses of my second and third sort of drawer and
other knobs, and likewise of finishing the fronts for my third sort, I stamp,
burnish, clear off, and lacker the same, and then combine the roses so made
or the roses and fronts so made, with my bodies to the other necessary parts.

page_text: hus have I described the particulars of my said Invention, and the manner
which the same is to be performed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Walker Jenkins, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Fifth day of November, in the fifty-second
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eleven.
WILLIAM WALKER JENKINS. (L.B.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifth day of November, in
the year of our Lord 1811, the aforesaid William Walker Jenkins came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication 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 Statute made for that purpose.