THE APPLICA- TION OF CERTAIN METALS OR MATERIALS TO THE MANUFACTURE OF THE MOVE- MENTS OF WATCHES AND OTHER TIMEKEEPERS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Robert Russell, of Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Watch Manufacturer, for the Invention of "THE APPLICA-
TION OF CERTAIN METALS OR MATERIALS TO THE MANUFACTURE OF THE MOVE-
MENTS OF WATCHES AND OTHER TIMEKEEPERS."
Scaled the 26th June 1860, and dated the 29th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Robert Russell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
. 29th December 1859.
I, THOMAS ROBERT RUSSELL, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Watch Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN METALS OR MATERIALS TO THE MANUFACTURE OF
THE MOVEMENTS OF WATCHES AND OTHER TIMEKEEPERS," to be as follows:-
In place of the various metals and materials at present employed for the
movements of watches and other timekeepers, I propose making or manu-
facturing the said movements of gold, silver, German silver, platina, zinc, and
tin, and any of these metals pure or alloyed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Robert Russell in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 29th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ROBERT RUSSELL, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Watch Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Horself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Robert Russell, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Robert Russell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Robert Russell, 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 "THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN METALS OR MATERIALS TO THE MANUFACTURE
OF THE MOVEMENTS OF WATCHES AND OTHER TIMEKEEPERS," upon the condition,
amongst others, that I, the said Thomas Robert Russell, my exccutors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing 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 Thomas Robert Russell, 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 (that is to say) :-
In place of the various metals and materials at present employed for the
movements of watches and other timekeepers, I make or manufacture the
said movements, or parts of the same, of pure gold, silver, German silver,
platina, zinc, and tin, and of any of these metals alloyed, but known in the
market by the above-mentioned names; I therefore claim as my Invention,
and which to the best of my knowledge and belief has not been hitherto used
within the realm, the application of the following metals or materials, viz.,

page_text: gold, silver, German silver, platina, zinc, and tin, pure and alloyed, for making
or manufacturing the movements of watches and other timekeepers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Robert Russell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
THOMAS ROBERT RUSSELL. (L.S.)
In the presence of
JOHN T. KING, Patent Agent,
4, Clayton Square, Liverpool.