IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF METALS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, of Sheffield, in the
County of York, Manufacturing Silversmith and Electro-plater,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF
METALS."
Sealed the 24th April 1874, and dated the 29th October 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 29th October 1873.
I, JEHOIADA ALSOP RHODES, of Sheffield, in the County of York,
Manufacturing Silversmith and Electro-plater, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF
METALS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of ornamenting metal surfaces, such as of
dinner, tea, and dessert services, cups, centre and flower stands, baskets,
salvers, knives, forks, spoons, and such like articles and vessels by
saw piercing" metal plates, and then embossing the "saw pierced".
.

page_text: parts by hand press or stamp, and filling the embossed parts with alloy,
alloys or metals, and attaching the "saw pierced" and embossed parts
with hard or soft solder to the article or vessel to be ornamented, and the
said parts may then be "chased" in the ordinary way.
saw
I carry out my Invention as follows:-I take a cup or any metal
article or vessel, and after the character of the ornament is determined
I take one or more pieces of the metal desired and then "
upon
pierce" by hand or machine to design, and then emboss or raise up the
parts in the design which are desired in higher relief by hand press or
stamp. I then "fill" or melt in the embossed parts alloy, alloys, or
metal to make those parts solid and durable, I then attach the saw
pierced," embossed, and "filled" parts by hand or soft solder to the
article or vessel, and then, if it is required, the attached parts may be
"chased up
" in the usual way. The result is a sharply defined, and,
if required, intricate relief with less labour than in the ordinary way,
this method leaving the "ground" or surface undisturbed, and saving
the labour of ground planishing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th April 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEHOIADA
ALSOP RHODES, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Manufacturing.
Silversmith and Electro-plater, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-.
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, Her special
licence that I, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jehoiada Alsop
Rhodes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
..

page_text: during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, tho Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
" IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF METALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, my executors.
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the dato
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
:
My Invention consists in ornamenting metal surfaces, such as of
dinner, tea, and dessert services, cups, centre and flower stands, baskets,
salvers, knives, forks, spoons, and such like articles and vessels by "saw.
piercing" metal plates, and then embossing the "saw pierced" parts by
hand press or stamp, and "filling" the embossed parts with alloy,
alloys, or metals, and attaching the "saw pierced" and embossed parts
with hard or soft solder to the article or vessel to be ornamented, and
the said parts may then be "chased" in the ordinary way.
The operation may be further described as follows:-I take a cup or
any metal article or vessel, and after the character of the ornament is
determined upon I take one or more pieces of the metal desired and
then saw pierce" by hand or machine to design, and then emboss or
raise up the parts of the design which are desired in higher relief by
hand press or stamp. I then "fill" or melt into the embossed parts
alloy, alloys, or metals, to make those parts solid and durable. I then
attach the saw pierced, .cmbossed, and filled parts by hard or soft solder
to the article or vessel, and then, if it is required, the altered parts may
be "chased up" in the usual way. The result is a sharply defined, and,
if required, intricate relief with less labour than in the ordinary way,
this method leaving the "ground" or surface undisturbed, and saving
the labour of ground planishing.
It may be applied with less cost than dies, particularly in special
designs, which are only of limited production.

page_text: It is also particularly applicable in saving time and the cost of dies
in special designs which may only be wanted to produce a few times.
Having thus described may said Invention, I declare that what I claim
and desire to be secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the improvements in the ornamentation of metals,
substantially as herein-before described or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.