AN IMPROVE- MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL RIVETS USED IN JOINING OR SECURING TOGETHER PARTS OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF LEATHER, AND ALSO IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING SUCH RIVETS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Edwin Marsh, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Rivet Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL RIVETS USED IN JOINING OR SECURING
TOGETHER PARTS OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF LEATHER, AND
ALSO IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING SUCH RIVETS."
Sealed the 28th January 1863, and dated the 1st August 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Edwin Marsh at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st August 1862.
I, JOHN EDWIN MARSE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Rivet Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL RIVETS USED IN JOINING
OR SECURING TOGETHER PARTS OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF LEATHER
AND ALSO IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING SUCH RIVETS," to be as follows:-
The ordinary metal rivets used for the above-named purposes are formed
with points square or four-sided in section, which points are liable to be broken
off in clinching, the points not possessing sufficient strength to allow of their
being turned up securely. My Invention remedies this defect. I make the
points of my rivets flat, with two sides only, or what are termed chisel pointed,
thus made, the point has sufficient strength to allow of its being clinched.

page_text: My improvements in machinery for making these rivets consist in the
alteration of the cutters which require to be sunk to the form necessary to
produce the flat point.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Edwin Marsh in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th January 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EDWIN MARSH, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Rivet Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Edwin Marsh, Her special license that I, the said John Edwin Marsh,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Edwin Marsh, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL RIVETS USED IN JOINING OR SECURING TOGETHER PARTS
OF BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF LEATHER, AND ALSO IN MACHINERY FOR
MAKING SUCH RIVETS," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said
John Edwin Marsh, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 John Edwin Marsh, 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, that is to say:-
The ordinary metal rivets used for the above-named purposes are formed
with points square or four-sided in section, which points are liable to be broken
off in clenching, the points not possessing sufficient strength to allow of
their being turned up securely. My Invention remedies this defect. I make

page_text: the points of my rivets flat, with two sides only, or what are termed chisel
pointed, or as nearly approaching this form as possible, thus made, the point
has sufficient strength to allow of its being clinched. My improvements in
machinery for making these rivets consist in the alteration of the cutters
which require to be sunk to the form necessary to produce the flat point.
As this alteration of the cutting tools, and the manner of effecting the
same will be readily comprehended by any mechanic accustomed to the making
or working of the class of machines employed in this trade, further description
will be unnecessary.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be carried into effect, I claim the improvements in
metal rivets used in joining together parts of boots, shoes, and other articles
of leather by making such rivets Bat or chisel-shaped at the points, or as
nearly approaching this form as possible, and the improvement in the machines
for making such rivets by sinking the cutting tools to the section required to
produce them as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Edwin Marsh, have hereunto set
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
JOHN EDWIN MARSH