A RAZOR OF AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION, FOR THE SHAVING THE FACE AND HEAD WITH MUCH GREATER EASE AND SAFETY THAN ANY OTHER RAZOR OR INSTRUMENT HITHERTO FOUND OUT, INVENTED, OR DISCOVERED
Year: 1789

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HORATIO SAVIGNY, of Pall Mall, in the Parish of Saint James, Westminster,
in the County of Middlesex, Surgeons' Instrument Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, upon my
humble Petition, was graciously pleased to grant unto me, the said John
Horatio Savigny, His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of December, in the
thirtieth year of His reign, thereby giving and granting unto me, the said
John Horatio Savigny, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Horatio
Savigny, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said John Horatio Savigny, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at
all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my Invention of ("A RAZOR OF AN
ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION, FOR THE SHAVING THE FACE AND HEAD WITH MUCH
GREATER EASE AND SAFETY THAN ANY OTHER RAZOR OR INSTRUMENT HITHERTO FOUND
OUT, INVENTED, OR DISCOVERED ") within that part of His Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said John Horatio Savigny, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should, in my or their
discretions, seem meet; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
provisoe that if I, the said John Horatio Savigny, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within

page_text: one calendar month next and immediately after the date thereof, that then the
said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Horatio Savigny, in compliance
with the said provisoe, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the same is made in manner following (that is to
say):-
Of the purest steel that can be procured, which is to be forged (with very
moderate and often repeated immersions in the fire, so that its substance may
receive no injury from a seperation of its particles by excess of heat, but on
the contrary, be rendered as dense as possible), into the form of a razor, differing
in form from all other razors heretofore made in the cutting part of the blade,
which, instead of decreasing gradually in breadth and thickness from the point
of the pitch or termination of the edge, is constructed of exact equal dimen-
sions as to breadth of blade and thickness of back the whole length thereof,
whereby the regular and equal diffusion of the necessary degree of heat is pro-
duced through the whole extent with the greatest facility, and is more properly
adapted to receive the effects of tempering with a certainty heretofore unattain-
able; and razors thus constructed derive much greater advantages than all
others heretofore made, when applied to the machines on which they are
wrought and finished, which, being vertical cylinders, the uniformity of their
mechanical effects upon razors made in this shape produces the most perfect
regularly and most exquisite delicacy of edge.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Horatio Savigny, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the
thirtieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third,
by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of December,
in the year above written, the aforesaid John Horatio Savigny came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the said Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year above
mentioned.