A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IRON STRAPS OR GIRDLES INTO VARIOUS ARTICLES AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THOSE NOW COMPOSED OF HEMP
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BRECK, of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the County of Stafford, Ironmonger,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Third did, by Ilis
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of
December, in the forty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, tho
said James Breck, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority that I, the said James Breck,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING
IRON STRAPS OR GIRDLES INTO VARIOUS ARTICLES AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THOSE NOW
COMPOSED OF HEMP;" in which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said James Breck, under my hand and seal, to cause a parti-
cular description of the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which
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 in part 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 said proviso in the said
Letters Patent contained; I do hereby declare that my said Invention of a
New Method of Manufacturing Iron Straps or Girdles into various Articles
as a Substitute for those now Composed of IIemp, is described in manner
following, that is to say:-

page_text: It consists in combining or connecting several iron straps together, so as
to form a band, strap, or girdle, to be used as a substitute for cordage. I
employ for this purpose those straps of sheet iron commonly known or sold under
the denomination of hoop iron. I connect them in a variety of ways; but the
following described are the methods I prefer :-First, I take three or more of
these straps of hoop iron of different lengths, and turn up the ends of cach
over a wedge, as represented in Fig. 1. I then draw them into a collar,
Fig. 2, until the loops come together in it. The collar being of a wedge form
within, holds them tight, or, if necessary, to mako them more tight, a wedgo
may be introduced between them. I then proceed to slide another collar
over the whole of the straps, and make a return or loop, as in Fig. 1, on the
end of the shortest length, and then introduce another strap of hoop iron on
the uppermost side, being also turned up at the end. The number of straps
to form the band is continued, and so on, for the length required, as may bo
scen in Fig. 7. I can, if necessary, and in some cases it is best,-commenco
forming my band, girdle, or strap at one of the collars, and continue to
lengthen it both ways at once; as, for instance, I take a collar, as represented
in Fig. 2, and insert therein one end of a strap of hoop iron lapped over, as
shown in Fig. 1; and next to this, I place one or more other straps, according
to the strength required, and over it or them I introduce the end of another
strap lapped over, as in Fig. 1, and then, by drawing it or them tight, they
will be fastened, as exhibited in Fig. 3. At the termination of the shortest
length, which will be the innermost, I introduce on the uppermost side of
the others the end of another strap lapped over wedgewise, as before described,
and fasten them by a collar, the same as Fig. 2, and so I continue to lengthen
the strap, band, or girdle both ways as long as may be necessary.
Another method of manufacturing these straps, bands, or girdles, is by con-
necting their lengths of iron together by means of a hinge or double joint, as
shewn in Fig. 4, with, more or less, two or three bands which are double being
welled together at the hinge or joint, according to the width required, or the
straps may be connected by means of a buckle or loop, as shewn in Fig. 5, or
by means of filletts and rivetts, as represented in Fig. 6.-Note, proper
mechanical means should be taken to ascertain that the strength of each strap,
singly proved, is sufficient for the purpose it may be intended.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Breck, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eight.
JAS (L.S.) BRECK.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of January, in
the forty-eighth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said James Breck came before our said Lord the King in Ilis Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the
forty-fourth year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inselled the Sixtoauth