A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PANNELS FOR COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES, ALSO FOR TABLES, CABINETS, PICTURES, AND OTHER FURNITURE
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, HENRY
CLAY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Japanner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twentieth day of November, in the thirty-third year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Henry Clay, His special licence that I, the said Henry
Clay, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PANNELS
FOR COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES, ALSO FOR TABLES, CABINETS, PICTURES, AND
OTHER FURNITURE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said Henry Clay, under my hand and seal, to cause a parti-
cular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Clay, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a new method of
manufacturing of pannels for coaches and other carriages, also for tables,
cabinets, pictures, and other furniture, is described in manner following (that
is to say)-
Take a block or piece of slate, blue stone, portland stone, or other stone, and
slit, saw, cut, or otherwise divide or make it into thin pannels or plates,

page_text: which pannels or plates are then to be ground, or rubbed in the manner of
plate glass, upon a flat stone or other proper: material for the purpose, with
sand and water or otherways, till, the surface is become perfectly true and even;
after the pannels or plates are thus reduced, and made very thin and even, they
are to be japanned, painted, gilt, varnished, or otherways ornamented, for the
use of or to be used as pannels or plates for coaches and other carriages, or
for tables or cabinets, or for pannels or plates for putting on or setting in
miniature paintings, prints, drawings, cameos, or other ornaments, or for other
furniture; and the pannels or plates if not strong enough of themselves may
be put on, be veneered to, or otherways laid on with glue or other cement
upon wood, paper, cloth, or other material that will sufficiently strengthen
and support them for the above. several purposes; or may be put on, be
veneered to, or otheways laid on with glue or other cement upon wood,
paper, cloth, or other material before they are japanned, painted, gilt, var-
nished, or otherways ornamented, for pannels or plates for coaches and other
carriages, tables, or cabinets, or for putting on or setting in miniature paintings,
prints, drawings, cameos, or other ornaments, or for other furniture, as before
mentioned; and also for picture pannels or plates for painting thereon in oil
colours, water colours, crayons, or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Clay, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, One thousand seven hundred
and ninety-two.
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesai
and all' and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Nineteenth day of December in the year above written