A METHOD OF MAKING SHEEP OR WOOL SHEARS, GLOVERS' SHEARS, AND HORSE SHEARS, UPON A NEW AND IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SORBY, the younger, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Shearsmith, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of December,
in the fifty-second year of His reign, did, give and grant unto me, the said
John Sorby, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence
full power, sole privilege and authority, that. I,. the said John Sorby, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, during, the,. term of years therein
expressed, should and: lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my
Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING SHEEP OR WOOL SHEARS, GLOVERS'
SHEARS, AND HORSE SHEARS, UPON A NEW AND IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION," within
that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
John Sorby, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court

page_text: of Chancery, within two calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same Letters Patent,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear."
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Sorby, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described and ascer-
tained in and by the Drawings in the margin of these presents and in manner
following, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in affixing within or upon the circular bow or spring
of the shears an additional spring or springs as follows:-
Figure 1 represents a pair of shears of the usual form before the bow is
bent; a, b, is the bow unbent, to which I affix either, by rivetting, brazing, or
by means of screws, one or more of the springs, Figures 5, 6, 7, 8; but I do
not confine myself to the size or shape of the said springs, as I shall vary them
the better to suit the purposes for which the shears are intended. Before
I affix the spring or springs to the bow unbent I sometimes compress the
spring a little by means of a pair of tongs or a vice, but the spring will
exert itself without this compression as the bending of the bow will produce
that effect.
Figure 2 represents a pair of shears with the bow unbent, with one of my
additional springs affixed.
Figure 3 represents a pair of shears of the usual form, with the bow bent;
a, b, c, is the bow. When the additional spring is to be affixed to the bow
in this state I compress the additional spring with a pair of tongs or vice
during the time of affixing it, in order to produce its exertion after being
affixed.
Figure 4 represents a pair of shears with one of my additional springs in
their finished state.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Sorby, the younger, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Tenth day of February, in the year of
our Lord Christ, One thousand eight hundred and twelve.
SODDY Tar

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Tenth day of February,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Sorby, the younger, came
before our Lord the King, in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication 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 Twelfth day of February, in the year above written.