IMPROVEMENTS IN CORK-CUTTING KNIVES OR APPARATUS, APPLICABLE. ALSO TO CUTTING OTHER SUBSTANCES THAN CORK
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Matthew Dodds, of Bedburn Iron Works, in
the County of Durham, Edge Tool Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORK-CUTTING KNIVES OR APPARATUS, APPLICABLE.
ALSO TO CUTTING OTHER SUBSTANCES THAN CORK"
Sealed the 12th May 1871, and dated the 17th November 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Matthew Dodds at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th November 1870.
I, MATTHEW DODDS, of Bedburn Iron Works, in the County of
Durham, Edge Tool Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORK-CUTTING KNIVES OR APPARATUS,
APPLICABLE ALSO TO CUTTING OTHER SUBSTANCES THAN CORK," to be as.
follows:-
The object of my Invention is to produce a knife or cutter greatly
economizing labour. both in grinding and in the exertion necessary to
use the knife or cutter, the friction being much less than in the ordinary

page_text: knife; the knife being also applicable to corn and grass cutters and
other similar cutting apparatus.
This I effect by substituting for the two plates of iron one placed on
each side of the steel, a single plate of steel welded on to one side of
iron, and afterwards rolling the same to the proper size for the size of
the knife or cutter required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Matthew Dodds in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th May 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
DODDS, of Bedburn Iron Works, in the County of Durham Edge Tool
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Matthew Dodds, Her special licence that I,
the said Matthew Dodds, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Matthew Dodds, my executors, ad-
ministrators, 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 CORK-
CUTTING KNIVES OR APPARATUS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO CUTTING OTHER SUBSTANCES
THAN CORK," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Matthew Dodds, my executors 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 Matthew Dodd's, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :—
The object of my Invention is to produce a knife or cutter, greatly
economizing labour both in grinding and in the exertion necessary to
use the knife or cutter, the friction being much less than in the ordinary
knife, this knife being also applicable to corn and grass cutters, chaff
cutters, and other similar cutting apparatus,
This I effect by substituting for the two plates of iron one placed on
each side of the steel, a single plate of steel welded on to one side of iron,
and afterwards rolling the same to the proper size for the size of the
knife or cutter required.
The nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed or put in practice having been thus described I have only
to add that the Sheet of Drawings accompanying these Presents illus-
trates the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed or put in operation, such Sheet of Drawings having
thereon written a statement of reference to the parts shown in such
Drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or put
in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the " Improvements in Cork-
cutting Knives or Apparatus, applicable also to Cutting other Substances
than Cork," as the same are herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Dodds, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-one.
MATTHEW DODDS. (L.S.)
Witness,
HUGH MURCHALL BLACKETT.