A TAPERED HAIR OR HEAD BRUSH
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JACOB,
METCALFE, of Great Marylebone Street, in the County of Middlesex, Brush
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
Westminster, the Thirtieth day of September, in the fifty-sixth year of
His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Jacob Metcalfe, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His special licence that I, the said Jacob Metcalfe, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jacob Metcalfe,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend my Invention of "A TAPERED HAIR OR HEAD BRUSH," within that
part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Jacob
Metcalfe, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Jacob Metcalfe, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and
ascertained in the following explanation thereof (that is to say) :-
I take any wood of the thickness of half an inch, or three-eights of an inch,
or thereabouts, and bore it with a brush bit, run in a lathe of any size, shape,
or pattern; I then plane it. smooth, which forms, the stock of my brush; I
then cut hair in lengths about one inch and a quarter long, which I mix with
my hands, by shaking it together as unevenly as possible; I then take brass
wire, which I double and push through the hole at the back of the stock, which
forms a loop, into which I put so much of the hair so mixed as aforesaid as
will fill the hole of the stock, and draw it into such hole, and so proceed, hole
by hole, till I have drawn the whole stock; I then press down with a piece of
iron the wire at the back of the stock, and glue on the back of the stock a
thin cover of wood; when dry; I proceed to complete my brush according to my
designed pattern, by sawing off with a turning saw all superfluous parts of the
stock, and by shaving off with a spokeshave and scraping with a scraper the
rough and uneven parts of the stock, and smooth such stock' by rubbing it
with glass paper.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jacob Metcalfe,, have hereunto, set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our
METCALT
(L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-ninth day of
November, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Jacob Metcalfe 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.
T
Inrolled. the same Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year, above. 8
written,