AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANU- FACTURING BLANKS OR MOULDS FOR KNIFE, RAZOR, AND SCISSAR BLADES, AND VARIOUS OTHER EDGE TOOLS, AND OF FORKS, FILES, ANDNAILS
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BELL, of the Town of Derby, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, the Ninth day of March, in the forty-fifth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said William Bell, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, His especial licence that I, the said William Bell, my exors, admors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANU-
FACTURING BLANKS OR MOULDS FOR KNIFE, RAZOR, AND SCISSAR BLADES, AND
VARIOUS OTHER EDGE TOOLS, AND OF FORKS, FILES, AND NAILS;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William
Bell, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Bell, do hereby particularly describe the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and how the same is performed, as follows:—
I make use of the frames and rollers, which are actuated or worked by any
of the mechanical powers similar to those which are commonly made use of
for rolling or flatting iron, steel, silver, copper, and other malleable metals or
substances; but the novelty of my application thereof is, that I cast, turn, or
otherwise indent or form on the surface of the said roller or rollers impressions,
as described in the above Drawings, first, as at A, A, is the manner or shape
to which my rollers are turned, cut, cast, or otherwise indented, which rollers
are made of cast iron, wrought iron, steel, or a mixture or combination of
either of them. I place these impression rollers together, or one of them
that is not impressed against that which is, in the usual method of rollers,
applied as aforesaid, and by observing a nicety in fixing them parallel to
each other, I pass between them, either in a hot or cold state, bars or
sheets of steel, iron, silver, or any other metals, or their compounds, which
have been previously rolled or otherwise brought to a proper thickness or
gauge, and which are sufficiently ductile to receive an impression by means of
my said process; the effects of which will be seen by looking at B, or at the
, end view as represented at C; this shews the back and edge of a knife, razor,
or scissar blade, as well as a variety of other edge tools, which may be made
from metal thus formed, or the thick and thin part, which is also calculated
to cut nails from, as hereafter described, from any substances proper to be
ápplied-for-the-making-of-nails. But-my-principal_intention is to make
thereby copper or iron nails or sprigs, or blanks for them, preparatory to
heading; and by the same means I produce my blanks or moulds for making
files and forks; but with this difference, I cut, cast, turn, or otherwise indent
on the surface of my roller or rollers, suitable impressions for any size or form
of files and forks which I want, some plans of which are shewn in the
Drawings of several shapes and forms of which'files are generally made, as at
'D, E, F, G. Thus, having produced the necessary forms and figures of the
various articles herein specified,-I separate them from each other by means of
a press or fly, or with shears made of any form suitable to my purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and five.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixth day of April, in the year
of our Lord 1805, the aforesaid William Bell came before our said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and five.