AN INTIRELY NEW AND PARTICULAR KIND OF MACHINE OR ENGINE, CALLED BY ME THE DETECTOR OR POCKET SPRING, FOR PREVENTING THE POCKET BEING PICKED
Year: 1787

page_text: PICKERING'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PICKERINC, of Long Lane, in the Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great, in
the City of London, Small Worker in Metal, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, upon the
humble Petition of me, the said John Pickering, was graciously pleased to
grant unto me, the said John Pickering, His Royal Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-
second day of November, in the twenty-eighth year of the reign, thereby
giving and granting unto me, the said John Pickering, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Pickering, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy
or deputies, servant or servants, or such others as I, the said John Pickering,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within that said part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in
such manner as to me, the said John Pickering, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or any of them, should in my or their discretions
seem meet, my Invention of "AN INTIRELY NEW AND PARTICULAR KIND OF
MACHINE OR ENGINE, CALLED BY ME THE DETECTOR OR POCKET SPRING, FOR
PREVENTING THE POCKET BEING PICKED;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a provisoe that if. I, the said John Pickering, should (within one

page_text: calendar month next) not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease,
determine, and..become void,. anything therein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and. by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Pickering, in compliance with the
said provisoe, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and declare that the same consists of two sides, and is made of steel, iron,
gold, silver, or any other metal, and opens by means of four hinges or joints, one
at each end and one in the middle on each side, and keeps itself close by the
force of two steel springs at the back, which have sliding rivets through the
metal. It is lined with leather, and covered on the outside with tape sewed
on through the holes made all along the edges, and when used sewed-on to
the outside of the pocket under- the cloth, and: which is, more clearly repre-
sented and described in the Plan or Drawing thereof hereunder. written, and is
Sall
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
above-named John Pickering (the
parchment being first duly stampt),
in the presence of."
JOHN TIMBRELL,.
JOHN PICKERING. (L.B.)
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page_text: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of December instant,
the said John Pickering 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 last above mentioned, according to the tenor of
the Statute and that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of December, in the year last above written.