ROLLING SILVER, COPPER, AND OTHER METALS OF VARIOUS THICKNESSES WITH THE SAME ROLLERS BY ONE OPERATION, AND OF DRAWING BRASS, IRON, STEEL, AND OTHER WIRE BY WHEELS AND A PINION OF VARIOUS SIZES AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME, AND OF RAISING BY A STAMP AND PRESS SCALE PANS, SAUCE PANS, WARMING PANS, BASONS, PLATE COVERS, KETTLES, LADLES, AND VARIOUS OTHER THINGS OUT OF SILVER, COPPER, AND OTHER METALS
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
FORD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Smith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-eighth day of August, in the ninth year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Richard Ford, His especial licence, that I, the said
Richard Ford, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, ny Inventions of "ROLLING SILVER, COPPER, AND OTHER
METALS OF VARIOUS THICKNESSES WITH THE SAME ROLLERS BY ONE OPERATION, AND
OF DRAWING BRASS, IRON, STEEL, AND OTHER WIRE BY WHEELS AND A PINION OF
VARIOUS SIZES AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME, AND OF RAISING BY A STAMP AND PRESS
SCALE PANS, SAUCE PANS, WARMING PANS, BASONS, PLATE COVERS, KETTLES, LADLES,
AND VARIOUS OTHER THINGS OUT OF SILVER, COPPER, AND OTHER METALS;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Richard
Ford, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Inventions, and in which manner the same are to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calender
months next and immediately after the date of the said récited 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 provisoe, I, the said
Richard Ford, do hereby declare that my said Inventions of Rolling Silver,

page_text: Copper, and other Metals of various Thicknesses with the same Rollers by
one Operation, and of Drawing Brass, Iron, Steel, and other Wire by Wheels
and a Pinion of various Sizes at one and the same Time, and of raising by
a Stamp or Press Scale Pans, Sauce Pans, Warming Pans, Basons, Plate
Covers, Kettles, Ladles, and various other Things out of Silver, Copper, and
other Mettals, are described in the manner following, that is to say:-
The rollers to be turned round as in common, with a nut on one of the
axis of a taper form from the center, or in lieu thereof three or more rollers,
that a pattern of the work intended to be rolled may pass through or
between two of them at the same time the metal passes through the other.
A bench to draw the wire of one or more sizes at one and the same time, by
wheels and pinions, fixed either under or over the bench, with a roller for a
rope, a chain or strap to pass over, which communicates with the pulley or
wheel at the end of the bench and the tongs which take hold of the wire or
to a wheel or pulley that joins the tongs, when by turning a wheel or windlass
the wire is drawed of any size or form through a plate or plates bearing
against a stop or sled. And to raise, by a machine generally called a stamp or
press, scale pans and the aforesaid and sundry other things by two implements
called dyes, placed under the hammer of a stamp or screw of a press, the one
being concave and the other convex, which, by the pressure of the hammer or
screw forced into the dye, the shape or form of the thing designed is
accomplished.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Ford, have hereunto set my