IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKLAYERS' AND OTHER TROWELS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Ball, of Hampden View, Walkley, in the
Borough of Sheffield, Sheep Shear Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKLAYERS' AND OTHER
TROWELS."
Sealed the 1st November 1867, and dated the 6th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Ball at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th May
1867.
I, JAMES BALL, of Hampden View, Walkley, in the Borough of Sheffield,
Sheep Shear Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKLAYERS' AND OTHER TROWELS,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention is applicable to the manufacture of trowels for the use of
bricklayers, masons, plasterers, gardeners, and others, and consists in making
them of cast steel rolled and cut to pattern by machine, and afterwards
hammered out to a proper thickness. The plate is cut with the tang and
blade in one piece; the tang is then pressed into a hollow or trougb-like
shape and filled in with a piece of iron which is rivetted thereto and gives the
necessary strength to the tang.
Trowels made in this manner besides being lighter and stronger than those
made in the ordinary way will also be found to be much cheaper.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Ball in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BALL, of Hampden View, Walkley, in the Borough of Sheffield, Sheep Shear
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Ball, Her special licence that I, the said James Ball, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Ball, 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 IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKLAYERS'
AND OTHER TROWELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
James Ball, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their bands 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 James Ball, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, reference being had in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, that is to say:―
This Invention is applicable to the manufacture of trowels for the use of
bricklayers, masons, plasterers, gardeners, and others, and consists in making
them of cast, shear, or other steel rolled and cut to pattern by machine, and
afterwards hammered out to a proper thickness. The plate is cut with the
tang and blade in one piece; the tang is then pressed into a hollow or trough-
Jike shape and filled in with a piece of malleable or forged iron, which is
rivetted thereto and gives the necessary strength to the tang.
Trowels made in this manner besides being lighter and stronger than those
made in the ordinary way will also be found to be much cheaper.

page_text: Such being the nature and object of the said Invention for "Improvements
in the Manufacture of Bricklayers' and other Trowels," I will now proceed to
describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be
performed or carried into practical effect; and in order that the same may
be distinctly understood I have annexed bereunto a Sheet of Drawings
illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures and letters of
reference corresponding with those in the following explanation thereof, that
is to say:
In the annexed Drawing Figure I. represents the plate of cast or other
steel as first roughly cut out. a, a, being the blade and b, b, the part to form
the tang. Figure 2 is a front view of the iron tang or filling piece, which is
cast of malleable iron or forged, with projecting pins or rivets c, c; a side view
of this piece is shown at d, d, Figure 3. The rough plate Figure 1 is
bammered out to the required thickness at the sides and the point. The
part b, b, is to be pressed by mechanical means into a hollow or trough-like
shape and cranked as shewn at Figure 3 (which is a side view of the two
parts), and holes having been drilled or punched therein to correspond with the
pins or rivets c, c, the piece d, d, is rivetted thereto. After being hardened
and smithed it is ready for grinding and polishing. The trowel is then ground
and polished in the usual manner, and the tang driven into the handle e, e,
as seen at Figure 4, which represents front and side views of the finished
trowel.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for
"Improvements in the Manufacture of Bricklayers' and other Trowels,"
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as my
Invention the manufacture of bricklayers' and other trowels from cast, shear,
or other steel, substantially in the manner herein-before described and exhibited
in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Ball, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.