IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRADAWLS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Taylor, of Sheffield, in the County of
York, Awl Blade Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRADAWLS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th September 1869.
I, JOSEPH TAYLOR, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Awl Blade
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRADAWLS," to be as follows:-
The improvements have reference to the manufacture of the parts of
bradawl handles called busks, and of the bradawl intended to fit in such
busk and handle; and consist in making the busk in two pieces, one
[Price 8d.]

page_text: secured or fitted to the handle and having thereon a tapped or screwed
or otherwise formed upper part made to fit in and correspond with the
second piece, such second piece being a tapped, or screwed, or otherwise
formed cap, nut, or nozzle furnished with a projecting internal collar
or shoulder, both pieces being constructed to receive the blade of the
bradawl in such manner that when the blade is inserted in the busk
the nozzle or screwed cap may be passed over such blade, and may
when screwed up or home on the busk butt against a corresponding
projection or collar on the blade of the bradawl formed for the purpose
and made to fit in such nozzle or cap, so that the blade cannot be
withdrawn or driven into the handle when at work and thus cause it to
split as frequently happens to those now in use.
The improvements may be conveniently carried into effect' by making
the handle of wood or metal, and the busk, nozzle, and awl of metal.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Joseph Taylor
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th April 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
TAYLOR, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Awl Blade Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Taylor, Her special licence that
I, the said Joseph Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Joseph Taylor, 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, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS THE MANUFACTURE OF
BRADAWLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph
Taylor, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing.

page_text: under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Joseph Taylor, 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 ;-
In carrying out the improvements which constitute this Invention
I form the awls with a circular flange or collar at the junction of the
blade with the tang, which tang I prefer to make square in section,
tapering slightly from the collar towards the end, where it may be
pointed or rounded. On the opposite or blade side of the collar I form
a boss or cone; the size or diameter and length of the blades may vary
as required, but the tang, collar, and boss or cone are all made of a
uniform size so as to fit into and be secured by the improved socket
and cap next described.
Instead of making the tang to drive into the handle in the usual way
I form a metal socket at the end of the ferrule to receive it; this socket
is screwed externally, and fitted with a cap which is tapped internally at
the base and bored at the crown to fit the cones or bosses of the awls
above described. 1 fix the ferrule to the handle by means of one or
more small screws or pins, then insert the tang of one of the awls (any
required number of which may be fitted to the same handle) in the
socket, I next pass the cap over and along or down the blade and screw
it home upon the collar and to the screwed end of the socket, between
which and a recess in the cap the sides of the said collar bear. This
cap thus prevents the awls from being drawn out or moved longitudinally,
while the square socket and tang prevent the awl from turning round
when in use. By removing the cap the awls can be changed at pleasure
according to the size required.
The accompanying Drawing shews the improved form of the awl, and
the improved ferrule socket and cap, the said ferrule socket and cap
being shewn in section and to which parts respectively the following
explanation applies:-

page_text: JOSEPH TAYLOR. (L.S.)