AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED METAL TEA POTS, COFFEE POTS, MILK JUGS, AND SUGAR BASINS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Coulson, of Sheffield, Metallurgist, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED
METAL TEA POTS, COFFEE POTS, MILK JUGS, AND SUGAR BASINS."
Sealed the 11th March 1856, and dated the 19th September 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Saniel Coulson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
September 1855.
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I, SAMUEL COULSON, of Sheffield, Metallurgist, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED
METAL TEA POTS, COFFEE POTS, MILK JUGS, AND SUGAR BASINS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of metal tea pots, coffee
pots, milk jugs, and sugar basins with raised ornaments thereon, and plating
and gilding such raised ornamented surfaces. And the improvement consists
of preparing the sheet metal used in such manufacture with raised ornaments
thereon by pressure; for which purposes the desired devices are engraved or
sunk in rollers or other surfaces, and then by pressure such devices are
produced in relief on the sheet metal employed in the manufacture of tea
pots, coffee pots, milk jugs, and sugar basins. Such ornamented surfaces, when
of inferior metal to gold or silver, can then be gilt or silvered by depositions
from solutions of such metals.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Samuel Coulson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
COULSON, of Sheffield, Metallurgist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Coulson, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Coulson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Coulson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF ORNAMENTED METAL TEA POTS, COFFEE POTS, MILK JUGS, AND SUGAR
BASINS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Coulson,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Coulson, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of metal tea pots, coffee
pots, milk jugs, and sugar basins with raised ornaments thereon, and plating
and gilding such raised ornamented surfaces. And the improvement consists
of preparing the sheet metal used in such manufacture with raised ornaments
thereon by pressure; for which purposes the desired devices are engraved or
sunk in rollers or other surfaces, and then by pressure such devices are
produced in relief on the sheet metal employed in the manufacture of tea pots,
coffee pots, milk jugs, and sugar basins. Such ornamented surfaces, when of
inferior metal to gold or silver, can then be gilt or silvered by depositions
from solutions of such metals.

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Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe more fully the manner of performing the same.
The object of this Invention is to obtain raised engraved ornaments on the
sheet metal sections of which a tea pot, a coffee pot, a milk jug, or a sugar
basin is composed; and although such raised engraved character may be all
over the surface of each section, I usually prefer to produce it only to a
portion, so as to present a raised engraved device on any part of the surface;
but the extent to which the raised engraved surface shall cover any one or
more of the sections of which either of the articles above mentioned may be
I would
composed will depend on the judgment and taste of the workman.
here state, that it is not new to engrave or emboss sheet metal surfaces by
I do not, there-
engraved plates, or blocks, or rollers, for various purposes.
fore, claim such process generally, but only its application to the sheet metal
sections of which a tea pot, a coffee pot, a milk jug, or a sugar basin may be
composed.
In carrying out my Invention, I employ either engraved plates, or blocks,
or rollers of steel, having thereon such devices as may be desired; and
I cause all or such of the sections or parts of one of the articles above
mentioned to be impressed with such device, or there may be several devices
formed on separate surfaces impressed on to the same metal section of a tea
pot, or a coffee pot, or a milk jug, or a sugar basin, and then the sections are
to be made up into the article above mentioned in the ordinary manner of
When the sheet
making up such articles when plain sections are used.
metal thus used is inferior to gold or silver, such engraved surfaces may be
coated by depositions of either of those metals by the well-known electrotype
What claim is, the manufacture of tea pots, coffee pots, milk jugs,
process.
and sugar basins with raised engraved devices on the sections of sheet metal
of which they are composed, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Coulson, have bereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
SAML COULSON. (L.S.)