IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING FORKS, SPOONS, COINS, AND MEDALS
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JULIAN
SKRINE, of Cambridge, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Thirtieth day of April, in the second year of Her reign, did, for Herself,
Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Julian Skrine,
Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Julian Skrine, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Julian Skrine, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING FORKS, SPOONS, COINS, AND
MEDALS," communicated to me by a certain foreigner residing abroad; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Julian Skrine, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Julian Skrine, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say)—
The Invention relates to the means of producing the impressions or devices on
forks, spoons, coins, and medals, and consists in forming or producing such devices
or impressions by means of carved rollers. The Drawings represents suitable
rollers for producing ornaments on forks and spoons, and it will be evident that
by engraving rollers in a similar manner, with proper devices or designs, coins or
medals may be impressed therewith. The Drawing A, B, represents a pair of
rollers carried by suitable framing. These rollers are preparing rollers, and are
engraved suitably for preparing the metal for forks and spoons before going
through the rollers C, which are engraved in a proper manner to produce the
design or impression desired. A plate of metal having been produced by the
ordinary means for a fork or for a spoon, and of the proper shape, the same is
to be heated and passed through or between the rollers B, by which some
feasts will be made thinner and others thicker, and thus producing the spoon
suitable for the finishing roller to produce the ornamental impression or design.
The fork or spoon being thus prepared is again heated, and then passed through
the rollers C, which are to be mounted in a suitable frame, such as is shewn
at A, and the rollers C will produce the finished impression. The fork or
spoon is then to be shaped by proper dies by stamping or pressure, similar to
those at E, D, which are proper for spoons, and the metal between the prongs
of the fork is to be removed as heretofore.
The rollers B and C may be worked by hand or by power; F, F, show a
fork and a spoon as finished by the rollers C. It will be evident that the
rollers may be engraved with any suitable design, and they will be found to
offer a better means of manufacturing forks and spoons than the presses and
stamping dies at present used for like purpose, and the rollers may be worked
by hand or power.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, I would have it under-
stood that what I claim as the Invention is, the mode of improving the
manufacturing of forks, spoons, coins, and medals by means of rollers, as above
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Julian Skrine, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-nine.
JULIAN (L.S.) SKRINE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1889, the aforesaid Julian Skrine came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.