AN IMPROVED METHOD OF FRAMING SCHOOL SLATES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Rhoads, of Vine Street, America Square, in
the City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF FRAMING SCHOOL SLATES."-A communication.
Sealed the 15th December 1854, and dated the 21st June 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Rhoads at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
June 1854.
I, THOMAS RHOADS, of Vine Street, America Square, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF FRAMING SCHOOL SLATES" to be as follows:-
By making the frame of two collateral pieces of wood or other suitable
material, with rounded corners and a groove to receive the slate, and securing
the slate between them by the junction of the two parts composing the frame,
such two parts being fastened together either by metal or wooden pins, or glue
or other suitable adhesive composition.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Rhoads in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st December 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
RHOADS, of Vine Street, America Square, in the City of London, Merchant,
send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Rhoads, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Rhoads, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Rhoads, 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, and amongst all and every the subjects of us, our
heirs and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF FRAMING SCHOOL SLATES," upon the condition (amongst
others). that I, the said Thomas Rhoads, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Rhoads, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
that is to say:-
By making the slate frame of two collateral pieces of wood or other suitable
material, with rounded corners and a groove to receive the slate, and securing
the slate between them by the junction of the two parts composing the frame,
such two parts being fastened together either by metal or wooden pins, or glue
or other suitable adhesive composition.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Rhoads, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
THOMAS RHOADS. (L.S.)