IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF METALS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, of Howard Street,
Sheffield, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION
OF METALS."
Sealed the 11th July 1871, and dated the 14th January 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 14th January 1871.
I, JEHOLADA ALSOP RHODES, of Howard Street, Sheffield, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
ORNAMENTATION OF METALS," to be as follows:-
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My Invention consists of ornamenting metal surfaces such as tea
services, cups, and other vessels and articles by attaching one or more
metals different from the surface metal, to which it is applied, and this
is accomplished by "saw piercing" the desired pieces of metal, and then
attaching any number of them by hard or soft solder to the surface to
be ornamented. The interstices of the "saw pierced" parts standing
in relief may be filled with enamel of various colors..

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The operation may be further described as follows:-I take a cup or
any metal article, and after the character of the ornament is determined
upon, I take one or more pieces of the proposed metal which must
be different from the cup or other article to be ornamented, and then
saw pierce" by hand or machine to design, and then by hard or soft
solder attach to the article to be ornamented. The result is a more
permanent contrast of color than is obtained by "parcel" gilding or
plating" of the various parts of the metal as in the ordinary mode at
present adopted.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 14th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEHOIADA
ALSOP RHODES, of Howard Street, Sheffield, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in
the thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes,
Her special licence that I, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jehoiada
Alsop Rhodes, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF METALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My Invention consists of ornamenting metal surfaces such as tea
services, cups, and other vessels and articles by attaching one or more
metals different from the surface metal to which it is applied, and this is
accomplished by "saw piercing" the desired pieces of metal and then
attaching any number of them by hard or soft solder to the surface to be
ornamented. The interstices of the "saw pierced" parts standing in relief
may be filled with enamel of various colors.
The operation may be further described as follows:-I take a cup or
any metal article, and after the character of the ornament is determined
upon I take one or more pieces of the proposed metal or metals, which
must be different from the cup or other article to be ornamented, and
then "
saw pierce" by hand or machine to design and then by hard or
soft solder attach to the article to be ornamented. The result is a
more permanent contrast of color than is obtained by "parcel" gilding
or "plating of the various parts of the metal as in the ordinary mode
at present adopted.
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Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
of carrying the same into effect, what I claim as new and desire to be
secured to me by Letters Patent is, the said process of ornamentation by
the application by hard or soft solder of one or more pieces of metal
or metals which have been "saw pierced" by hand or machine and are
different to the surface metal to which said "saw pierced" ornaments
are applied for tea services, cups, and other vessels and articles.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
JEHOIADA A. RHODES. (L.S.)