NEW INVENTED MATERIAL ARTICLE IN THE MAKING OF CORK-SCREWS
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMASON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, 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 West-
minster, the Seventh day of May, in the forty-second year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomason, my exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, and vend, within England, and Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW INVENTED MATERIAL ARTICLE
IN THE MAKING OF CORK-SCREWS;" in which Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso, obliging me, the said Edward Thomason, under my hand
and seal, to 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 one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear..
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and agreeable to the true
intent and meaning of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained,
I, the said Edward Thomason, do hereby declare that the following is a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention of new methods and
improvements in the mechanism of cork-screws, both with respect to principle
and the way and manner in which the same is to be performed, that is to
say:-

page_text: In respect to principle, I cause the cork to be extracted from the simple
continuation of turning the screw to the right hand, and this performed without
any rack wheel, lock, or spring, and I cause the cork to be discharged from
the screw without laying hold of the cork with the fingers, by the simple
Now I do
continuation of turning or unscrewing towards the left hand.
declare the above-mentioned principle comprehends the real object of my
Invention, and in order for the better comprehension and understanding how
the aforesaid may be reduced to practice; I do hereby further declare, that
altho I vary mý mode of construction, as a difference in circumstances may
require, to produce the same effect and obtain the main purpose intended, yet
I principally adhere to the method herewith described as being fully answerable
to what is required and best calculated to be understood from the drawing and
descriptions thereof, and the same is described fully in the five sections and
one drawing represented in the margin of these presents, and the alphabetical
letters in the five sections refer to the same parts in Drawing No. 1. Section
No. 1 represents the handle of the cork screw. Section No. 2 is the male
'screw, which is rivetted or screwed 'to Section No. 1, and assists the worm in
penetrating the cork, during which process it always acts towards the right
hand, and the contrary way or towards the left in forcing the cork from 'off the
"screw. Section No. 3 is the worm for penetrating the cork, and is fastened
to the lower end of Section No. 2. Section No. 4 is an hermaphrodite screw,
it being the female screw "to 'Section No. 2, and the male screw to the
outer frame work or Section No. 5; its most useful time of acting is during
the extraction of the cork from the bottle. I is a wor, burr, or shoulder, which
prevents it from sliding or coming off Section No. 2, and G is a bowl part or
button, which acts as a shoulder to push the cork from off the worm or 'section
No. 3. Section No. 5 is the outer frame or skeleton for 'the whole, having a
female screw at H, which works upon section No. 4, and is prevented from
sliding or coming off the section No. 4 by the bowl part G at one end and the
shoulder part F at the other end of section No. 4.
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'I do hereby further declare, that the cork-screws may be made of any kind
of metal, such as iron, steel, copper, brass, or any other metal, or 'composition
of metals, or any substance or substances that may be found sufficiently strong
and proper for the purpose."
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In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomason, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and two.
EDWARD THOMASON. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fourteenth day of May, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edward Thomason came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of May, in the year above written.