A METHOD OF MAKING AND FIXING TOGETHER BUCKLE CHAPES AND TONGUES UPON AN INTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
WINWOOD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Buckle Chape
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the twenty-first year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Daniel Winwood, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Daniel Winwood, my executors, adññors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might, during the term of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and
vend, throughout that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and also in all His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Inven-
tion of "A METHOD OF MAKING AND FIXING TOGETHER BUCKLE CHAPES AND
TONGUES UPON AN INTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Daniel Winwood, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular de-
scription 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 four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the
Daniel Winwood, do hereby declare that my said
said proviso, I, the said
Invention of a Method

page_text: of Making and Fixing together Buckle Chapes and Tongues, upon an intire
New Construction, is performed in the manner following (that is to say):-.
Take the chape in the state as delineated in the Plan hereunto annexed,
marked No. 1, and put it into an implement contrived to hold it fast, either
by a screw or wedge, and move the same by means of a screw or leaver
against a tool called a cutter; shall run either vertically or horizontally till it
has made a groove in the said chape No. 1, from A to A; then take a piece
of round hollow wire of a proper length, and place it in such groove, and
braze or solder both parts together, then place the chape upon a moveable
rest before a cutter, and by means of a screw or leaver cut out a part in the
middle of the hollow wire as in the delineated chape, marked No. 2 at the
letter B, to receive the delineated tongue No. 4, which tongue, by my new-
invented method, is made as follows, viz':-Take a flat piece of iron of a proper
strength, and thereout cut a tongue as delineated in Plan No. 3, but of whatever
form or pattern you please; then make it flat and anneal it; then put it into
the above-mentioned moveable rest, and apply that part of it marked C in the
above-mentioned manner to the above-mentioned cutter, and cut a groove in
it from D to D; then take a round piece of hollow wire of a proper length,
and place it in such groove, and braze or solder both parts together; then file it,
and when the chape and tongue are thus made, then adjoin them together in
the usual manner, and polish them to the quality required.
And I do hereby further declare, that my said new-invented method of making
and fixing together the chape and tongue called turnovers is performed in the
following manner (that is to say):-Take a turnover chape in the rough
state, as delineated No. 5, and place it on a moveable rest as before mentioned,
against a cutter as before described, and cut out a part at E, as described in
Drawing No. 6, at F, to receive the delineated tongue No. 7, which tongue
by by new-invented method, is made as follows (viz¹):-Take a flat piece of
iron as before mentioned, and thereout cut the tongue No. 7, but in what-
ever form you please, then with a stamp press or hammer beat out or make
thin that part of the said tongue marked letter G, then anneal it, and turn the
part so made thin over a wire; then draw out the wire and braze or solder the
part so turned over; then file it, and adjoin the chape and tongue (so made)
together in the usual manner, and polish them to the quality required.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Winwood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
DANIEL WINWOOD. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Tenth day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the said Daniel Winwood came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written,
together with the Plan thereunto annexed. And also the Specification above
said was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of
the reign of their late Majestys King William and Queen Mary of England,
and so forth.