AN IMPROVEMENT OR IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HINGES."
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Paul Moore, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HINGES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Paul Moore at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th
March 1858.
I, PAUL MOORE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HINGES," to be as follows, that is
to say
This Invention consists in the ornamentation of cabinet and other hinges,.
by making them of metal, upon which any desired pattern or device has been
previously rolled or impressed, or by rolling or impressing upon hinges already.
formed the pattern or patterns that may be required, by which a highly orna-,
mental effect may be produced on the flaps of such hinges, and at a very
trifling cost.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Paul Moore in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PAUL
MOORE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Paul Moore, Her special license that I, the said Paul Moore,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Paul Moore, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF HINGES," upon the condition, amongst
others, that I, the said Paul Moore, 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 Paul Moore, 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:-
My Invention consists in the ornamentation of binges (more particularly
those of the class termed cabinet hinges) by making them of metal upon
which any desired pattern or device has been previously rolled or impressed,
or by rolling or impressing upon hinges already formed the pattern or patterns
that may be required, by which a highly ornamental effect may be produced
upon the flaps of such hinges at a very trifling cost; and the way in which I
prefer to carry out this my Invention is, by first casting a strip of metal, then
rolling it out to a given size, and afterwards passing such strip through rollers
engraved or embossed upon their surfaces or peripheries, by which last-named
operation patterns or devices will be produced upon the strip of metal; I then

page_text: cut from the strip the pieces of metal to form the flaps of the hinge, and bend
round one edge of each to form the joint, in the same manner in which I make
brass butt hinges under a previous Patent worked by me; the parts of the
hinge are then put together and finished in the usual manner.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that that which I
claim is the improvement or improvements in the manufacture of binges by
making them of metal upon which any ornamental pattern or device has been
produced, or by impressing upon such hinges any desired pattern or device, as
herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Paul Moore, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
PAUL MOORE. (L.S.)