METHOD OF ORNAMENTING ALL KINDS OF BUCKLES, STRAPS, COACHES, CHAISES, PHAETONS, HARNESS AND ACCOUTREMENTS, OF LEATHER OR PAPER, USED BY MAN OR HORSE
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
HANDS, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Buckle Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-third day of February, in the Thirtieth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Hands, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His special licence, that I, the said Samuel Hands, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new
Invented "METHOD OF ORNAMENTING ALL KINDS OF BUCKLES, STRAPS, COACHES,
CHAISES, PHAETONS, HARNESS AND ACCOUTREMENTS, OF LEATHER OR PAPER, USED BY
MAN OR HORSE;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Samuel Hands, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesties High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next' and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
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NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I; the said
Samuel Hands, do hereby declare and specify that my said Invention for
Making and Ornamenting all Kinds of Buckles, Straps, Coaches, Chaises,
Phaetons, Harness, and all Accoutrements used by Man or Horse, made of
Leather or Paper, consists in making and in laying any or all of the above-

page_text: mentioned articles with ornaments made of gold, silver, and all other metals,
glass, pearl, ivory, or other substance whatever, inlaid by cutting, drilling,
chasing, or pressing; and those inlaid by cutting, drilling, or chasing are fixed
in or upon the article intended to be ornamented with a cement, but with
respect to those pressed the ornaments are fixed upon the article with a
glutinous substance, rivet, screw, or any other fastening, and then the whole
is put into a pair of moulds made to the shape or form of the article intended to be
made and ornamented, which article is softened by making the moulds hot in
water or steam, and then the moulds are pressed together till the ornaments
remain perfectly secure and fast in the article intended to be made and
ornamented. I also cause any kind of ornaments to be stamped, sunk, or
engraved in the moulds above mentioned, which by being pressed gives the
impression desired, and whether such impression be raised above or sunk below
the surface the same may be inlaid or not at pleasure. I likewise cause
ornaments of the like kind and nature to be made and inlaid in horn or
any kind of pulp by the like or similar processes for the above-mentioned uses.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Hands, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety.