MAKING THE SHANKS OF ANCHORS AND OTHER LARGE BODIES OF WROUGHT IRON OF A SIMILAR FORM, BY USING ONE SOLID CORE OF IRON FOR THE CENTRE, WITH BARS OF FEATHER-EDGED IRON, SO MADE UP, CONSTRUCTED, AND APPLIED, AS TO SAVE A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF IRON, COALS, AND LABOUR IN THE MANUFACTURING OF SAME, AND WHICH WILL MATERIALLY ADD TO THE STRENGTH AND SOUNDNESS OF ALL LARGE BODIES OF WROUGHT IRON SO MANUFACTURED
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
JACKSON, of the Bear Garden, Bankside, Southwark, in the County of Surrey,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,. by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at,
Westminster, the Seventh day of March, in the fifty-first year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Jackson, His especial licence, full power, also privilege, and authority,
that I, the said Richard Jackson, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Jackson, 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 of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, called England and Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "MAKING THE SHANKS
OF ANCHORS AND OTHER LARGE BODIES OF WROUGHT IRON OF A SIMILAR FORM, BY
USING ONE SOLID CORE OF IRON FOR THE CENTRE, WITH BARS OF FEATHER-EDGED IRON,
SO MADE UP, CONSTRUCTED, AND APPLIED, AS TO SAVE A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF
IRON, COALS, AND LABOUR IN THE MANUFACTURING OF SAME, AND WHICH WILL
MATERIALLY ADD TO THE STRENGTH AND SOUNDNESS OF ALL LARGE BODIES OF
WROUGHT IRON SO MANUFACTURED;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Richard Jackson, by an instrument

page_text: in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and to cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Jackson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in the plan drawn in the margin of these Presents, and the
following explanation thereof, that is to say :-
Letter A exhibits a solice taper core of wrought iron, which is to be manu-
factured of the best scrap or flaggotted iron to the size wanted (in the usual
way of heavy smith's work) until it becomes perfectly solid and sound. The
core is then laid into bars of feather-edged iron, previously rolled and prepared
for that purpose, as shewn by the plan drawn in the margin, marked B, which
exhibits the solid core (half hid) and the sides of two bars of feather-edged
iron. The remaining part of the bars are then laid round the core, so as to
form the shank or other large body of iron, as shewn by the plan marked C,
and hooped up to keep it together, as also seen by the plan marked with the
letters D, D, D, D, D, D, D, and in order form the shape of the shank, as
exhibited by the plan marked with the letter C, tapered splices of iron must
be used and drove down between the bars to a fine splice, as shewn in the
plan marked with the letters E, E, E. The shank or other large body being
thus prepared, is fit for the forge, and is then to be manufactured in the
ordinary way of making shanks of anchors and other large bodies of wrought
iron, until it becomes one solid and sound body of iron, and by laying up the
iron with the solid core, and making the shank or other large body of iron in
the form and by the method herein-before described, it will not require so
many heats as were before necessary in the common mode of manufacturing
shanks of anchors or other large bodies of iron. The body itself will be more
sound, and a considerable quantity of iron, coals, time, and labour will also
thereby be saved. The plan of the section in the margin marked with the
letter F shews the section of the butts or large end of the shank marked in
the plan with the letter C, and the plan of the section in the margin, marked
with the letter G, shews the section of the small of the round of the shank in
the plan marked C, in all large bodies of wrought iron required to be straight
from end to end; the solid core should then be straight, and the bars of

page_text: feather-edged iron should be used and applied round, same as before described,
without any splices of iron being necessary.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Jackson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eleven
(L.S.)
Sealed and delivered (being first duly stamped)
in the presence of
W. KING,
Shorters Court, Throgmorton Street.
William King, of Shorters Court, Throgmorton Street, in the City of
London, Gentleman, maketh oath and saith, that he was present and did see
Richard Jackson, of the Bear Garden, Bankside, in the Borough of Southwark,
Manufacturer, sign and seal, and as his act and deed deliver the Deed Poll or
Instrument hereunto annexed, being a Specification of his Invention for
making the shanks of anchors and other large bodies of wrought iron of a
similar form, by using one solid core of iron for the centre, with bars of
feather-edged iron, so make up, constructed, and applied as to save a consi-
derable quantity of iron, coals, and labor in the manufacturing of same, and
which will materially add to the strength and soundness of all large bodies of
wrought iron so manufactured, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of April,
One thousand eight hundred and eleven; and that the name of Richard
Jackson thereto subscribed, is of the proper handwriting of the said Richard
Jackson, the Patentee of the said Invention; and that the name W. King,
thereon indorsed as witness to the execution thereof is the proper handwriting
of this deponent.