AN IMPROVE- MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE TREES" MEXT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE TREES " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Jenks, of Handsworth, in the County of
Stafford, Manufacturer, and Thomas Brown, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE TREES"
MEXT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE TREES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Jenks and
Thomas Brown at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 23rd May 1854.
We, FREDERICK JENES, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Manu-
facturer, and THOMAS BROWN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE TREES " to be as follows:-
Our said Invention consists in making saddle trees of papier mâché instead
of wood, whereby great economy is effected in the cost of the said saddle
In carrying our Invention into effect, we either press the said papier
mâché in moulds or dies, or build up the same on a suitably formed block or
bed, and finish it by rasps or such other tools as are or may be used for
shaping articles of papier maché. The iron work of the saddle tree may
either be fixed thereon after it is made, or be inserted in the papier mâché
during the moulding or fashioning the same. By the term papier mâché, we
wish it to be understood that we mean softened and pasted paper, or paper
pulp, or such mixtures composed mainly of vegetable fibre as are or may be
used as substitutes for papier mâché.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Jenks and Thomas Brown in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 21st November 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FREDERICK
JENKS, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, and THOMAS
BROWN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most-Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Frederick Jenks and Thomas Brown, Her special licence that we,
the said Frederick Jenks and Thomas Brown, our executors,, administrators;
and assigns,. 'or such others as we, the said Frederick Jenks and Thomas
Brown, our 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 SADDLE TREES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said Frederick Jenks and Thomas Brown, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Frederick Jenks and Thomas Brown,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
Our said Invention consists of making saddle trees of papier mâché instead
of wood, whereby great economy is effected in the construction of the said
saddle trees. In carrying our said Invention into effect, we either use sheets
of paper pasted together or we use pulp, both of which methods of manufac-
turing articles in papier mâché are well known and commonly practised.
In carrying our Invention into effect by the use of sheets of paper pasted
together, we either press the same into moulds or dies, or build up the same
on a suitably formed block or bed; when saturated with oil and dried, the

page_text: saddle tree may be finished by the use of rasps, knives, or such other tools as
are or may be used for shaping papier mâché. When we carry our Inven-
tion into effect by the use of pulp, we proceed in the manner usually followed
in the manufacture of articles of papier maché from pulp, excepting that in
taking up the pulp from the vat containing it we use deacles or frames deeper
than those usually employed, in order that they may hold a layer of pulp
sufficiently thick to be pressed or formed into a saddle tree. The iron work
of the saddle tree may either be fixed thereon after it is made, or may be
inserted in the papier mâché during the moulding or fashioning of the same.
We sometimes introduce layers of linen, calico, or other fabric between the
sheets of paper or in the pulp during the moulding or forming of the same
into saddle trees. By the term papier mâché, we wish it to be understood
that we mean softened and pasted paper, or paper pulp, or such mixtures
composed mainly of vegetable fibre as are or may be used as substitutes for
papier mâché.
We have not thought it necessary to describe minutely the various stages
of the manufacture of saddle trees of papier mâché, according to our Inven-
tion, as the said manufacture does not differ from that by which articles of
papier mâché are ordinarily manufactured, and we believe the description
herein-before given of our Invention, will enable any one accustomed to the
manufacture of articles in papier mâché to carry our said Invention into
effect; we claim as our Invention the manufacture of saddle trees of papier
mâché as herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Frederick Jenks and Thomas Brown,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
FREDERICK JENKS. (L.S.)
THOMAS BROWN.
(L.S.)