CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING OR MANUFACTURING OF HANDLES FOR SAUCEPANS, KETTLES, AND OTHER CULINARY VESSELS, AND ALSO TEA-KETTLE HANDLE STRAPS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1826

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WHITFIELD, of Birmingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and twenty-six, in the sixth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Whitfield, His
especial licence, that I, the said William Whitfield, my exors, adññors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Whitfield, my exors, adññiors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING
OR MANUFACTURING OF HANDLES FOR SAUCEPANS, KETTLES, AND OTHER CULINARY
VESSELS, AND ALSO TEA-KETTLE HANDLE STRAPS AND OTHER ARTICLES;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
William Whitfield, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to
bo inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited

page_text: Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, wil
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Whitfield, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the
following description thereof (that is to say):
:-
Instead of forging the articles I shall hereafter enumerate as formerly
practised, I forge what is technically called moulds or rough pieces of iron of
such thickness and form as would make the article; but instead of putting it
into the intended form, according to the practise of a smith, I compleat it so
far as I hereafter describe under a powerful stamp, between a pair of dies,
that gives the exact form and substance, leaving a fin or web all round, or
nearly all round, the said article, which fin or web may be afterwards removed
by filing off or by clipping with the fly or piercing press, thereby making it
more compleat and perfect in form than can be done by compleating it on the
anvil in the way heretofore in use. The impression under the stamp is given
whilst the iron is red hot, or rather what is called by smiths nearly a white
licat. After the article has received the impression it should be removed from
under the stamp, and the scale or dross taken off by rubbing a file or other
instrument over its surface by the person who lays it under the stamp, and
after it is so freed from scale it is again laid under the stamp to receive one or
more blows to bring the impression more perfectly into form, because, as many
of these articles are afterwards made bright, the removing of the scalo as
perfectly as possible makes a material difference in the finishing, and as one of
the objects of this Invention is to make a better article than could be done
by the former practice the more perfectly they are made to fill the dies, the
less labour is afterwards required (and this object more properly attained.
Drawings are annexed to this Specification representing some of the dies I use.
C is one of the
No. 1 is for saucepan handles. A & B are the pair of dies.
handles in the state it leaves the dies. No. 2 is for tea-kettle handles.
D & E are the pair of dies. F is a handle, having been struck in the dies at
one end, the other end shewing the mould ready for stamping. This handle
I strike at each end in the same dies. No. 3 is for a tea-kettle handle strap.
G & H are the pair of dies. I, I, the strap shewn on each side No. 4, for a
stand foot for the use of tinplate workers. K & L are the pair of dies.
M, M, the foot shewn on each side.
It will be observed that the saucepan
handle is stamped straight that the tea-kettle handle has some of the necessary
curves given to it, that the strap and foot are put into the proper form by the

page_text: dies, and having ornamental work put on them. Now, all these variations I
use as the case may require for any of the articles I have described by the
Drawings, and also for stewpan handles, which are similar to the saucepan
handle No. 1. And I hereby declare that the nature of my Invention, is that
of giving the requisite impression to the articles I have enumerated whilst hot
by means of dies and the application of a powerful stamp, and that I form the
article either by one pair of dies, or by two pairs or more, as the size and
length require; and for the convenience of working the articles I either stamp
them on the ends of the rods of iron, and cut them off when stamped, or make
them as the handle No. 2 to be stamped one end after the other. And
although I have given some idea how the articles may be conveniently finished
I claim nothing as original but what is done by the dies and stamp in the
manner described, retaining the power to make any variety of pattern
whatever.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Whitfield, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight lundred and twenty siv