A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT ON PENCILS, WHICH I INTEND TO DENOMINATE PYKE'S PATENT IMPROVED PENCILS
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LYON
PYKE, of No. 8, Colchester Street, Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex,
Pencil Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of June,
in the forty-fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Lyon
Pyke, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence that I,
the said Lyon Pyke, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT
ON PENCILS, WHICH I INTEND TO DENOMINATE PYKE'S PATENT IMPROVED PENCILS;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Lyon Pyke, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters

page_text: Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Lyon Pyke, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a certain im-
provement on pencils is described in the above Drawings, and the following
description:-
The pencil is made from five inches in length to six inches, of ceder
wood, some square, others round, with a guage or rule on the back of the
receiving part of the pencil. The guage or rule is made of gold, silver,
tootbanque, plated or washed with silver on every kind of metal capable of
receiving or being plated or washed with silver, brass, copper, steel, pewter,
zink, lead, iron, and every other metal, or ivory, bone, and other things sus-
ceptible of being engraved, stamped, or marked on, which said guage or rule
is marked as a measure, from five to six inches in length, beginning at
th of an inch up to six inches (see the parts marked A and B. The
pencil contains two.slide pencils, one at each end, that is to say, one of
black lead of the best quality for the use of artists, drawing masters, shop-
keepers, and others (see the part marked C. The other side or end made
for creta gallica (or for crayon of all sorts), which will mark on glass, woollen
cloth, and is for the use of gentlemen, drapers, and others (see the part
marked D). The properties of this Invention are, that the inlaid guage or
rule on the receiving part of the pencil serves, in measuring, to assist the
artist, drawing master, and others in proportioning, and to prevent negligent
persons from shortening that part of the pencil, by opposing the effect of the
knife when carelessly applied by unthinking persons. The black lead side or
pencil being of the best quality may with great ease. be brought to a
a fine
point, so as to gratify the fullest expectation of the artist or drawing master.
The creta gallica or crayon slide or pencil end, in addition to the black lead
end, is extremely handy and useful to gentlemen to leave their appointment on
a glass window, and useful to the draper, dealer in, worker of, or cutter, of
woollen cloth, and, if crayon, for drawing masters and others. Lastly, the
inlaid guage or rule. part will last or wear out many slides or pencils of black
lead, creta gallica, or crayon. I furnish separate slides or pencils of two
lengths to fit the guage or rule part, which will be a great saving to the
public.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lyon Pyke, have. hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand
LYON PYKE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twentieth day of July,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Lyon Pyke 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 same Twentieth day of July, in the year above written.