AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING NAILS OF WROUGHT IRON
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
FINCHI, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Iron Master, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, in
and by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eleventh day
of April, in the fifty-first year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said William Finch, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Finch, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said William Finch, 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 part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING NAILS OF WROUGHT IRON;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Finch,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Finch, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, by the plan
or Drawing hereunto annexed, and as follows (that is to say):-
The principle upon which my Invention is founded, and by which my
improvement is manifest, is that nails of any size are thereby formed and made
by machinery of the like taper form as are now forged by the nailor; the
operation in performing whereof being, first, to prepare the plate iron (which
I call waved iron) in rolls of a new construction, as shewn in the annexed
Drawing, one whereof being turned down in a lathe into equal divisions of
two lengths in one compartment, such lengths and depths verging according
to the size and strength of the nail required, the iron thus roll'd forming a
double inclined plain. The surface of the said waved roll is smooth, and the
dimensions are optional; the one is a plain roll, the other, as shewn in
the annexed Drawing, is waved to produce a taper form in the iron when roll'd.
The remaining operations are, by the use of tools commonly called the punch
.bed and bolster, worked in a serne or lever press, which may be moved by
the power of water, steam, wind, or cattle.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Finch, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eleven.
raordinary in Chancery.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Seventh day of June, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Finch came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
'Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Tenth day of June, in the year above written.