A METHOD OF MAKING SHANKS OR EYES FOR BUTTONS BY THE APPLICATION OF ROLLERS, PRESSES, AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM WHITMORE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Tool Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of November, in the thirty-first year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said William Whitmore, my exors,
adiiors, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said William Whitmore, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, during the
term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING SHANKS OR EYES FOR BUTTONS BY
THE APPLICATION OF ROLLERS, PRESSES, AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS; in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Whitmore,
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 next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Whitmore, in complianco with
the said proviso, do hereby declare, that the following is a particular description
of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed
(that is to say):-
My method of manufacturing the said shanks or eyes for buttons consists in
taking fillets or strips of metal (or iron), of a proper breadth and thickness, and
passing the same between rollers, having impressions of a proper size and form
of the shanks either cut wholly into one of them, or partly in both, in which Inst
case the impressions are only of about half the thickness which the shanks aro
intended to be, and the motion of the rollers regulated so as to keep the
impressions exact and opposite to each other while the rollers are going round,
whereby the metal (or iron) receives the form of a button shank. I afterwards
separate the waste or blank part around and withinside the shanks by means
of a punch and bed fitted into a press or stamp, or by punches alone.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Whitmore, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of December, in the thirty-first
year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord King George the Thirl,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety.
WILLIAM WHITMORE. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of Deceniber, in
the year of our Lord 1790, the aforesaid William Whitmore came 'before our
said Lord the King in Ilis Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt.according to the tenor
of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of Deceniber, in the year of our Loril Onc
thousand seven hundred and ninety.