A MORE SPEEDY METHOD OF APPIXING IMPRESSIONS FROM DIES UPON GOLD, SILVER, OR METTALS, BY MEANS OF ROLLING CYLANDERS, ON WHICH SUCH DIES ARE ENGRAVED, WHICH WOULD BE TO THE GREAT BENEFIT OF TRADE, PARTICULARLY TO THE BUCKLE, BUTTON, AND TOY MANUFACTORIES
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BELL, of the Town of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said William Bell, did, by my Petition, humbly repre-
5 sent to His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had, by
great study and long application, invented and brought to perfection "A
MORE SPEEDY METHOD OF APPIXING IMPRESSIONS FROM DIES UPON GOLD, SILVER,
OR METTALS, BY MEANS OF ROLLING CYLANDERS, ON WHICH SUCH DIES ARE ENGRAVED,
WHICH WOULD BE TO THE GREAT BENEFIT OF TRADE, PARTICULARLY TO THE BUCKLE,
BUTTON, AND TOY MANUFACTORIES," and that I was the first real and true
Inventor thereof, and that the same had never been used or practised by any
other persons; I therefore humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me,
my exors, admors, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use,
benefit, and advantage of my said Invention, within that part of His said
Majestic's Kingdom called England, His Dominion of Wales and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, agrecable to the Statute
in that behalf; His said Majesty being willing to give encouragement to all
arts and inventions which might be for the publick good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to my request; and therefore, by His Royal Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of December, in
the twentieth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge
and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant
unto me, the said William Bell, my exors, admiors, and assigns, His especial

page_text: licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said William
Bell, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and them-
selves, or by mine and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said William Bell, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thenafter, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part
of His said Majesiet's said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to me, the said William Bell, my exors, adññiors, or assigns, or any of us,
should in our discretion seem neet; and that I, the said William Bell, my
exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing,
accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the
term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or men-
tioned to be granted unto me, the said William Bell, my exors, admors, and
assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from
the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and
fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made
and provided; in which the said Letters is contained a proviso that if I, the said
William Bell, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same was performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then
the said Letters Patent should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
anything therein 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 William Bell, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the particulars thereof is as follows, that is to
say:
That the rollers or cylinders for the purpose of making buckles and buttons
are made of steel, iron, or mettal, and are engraved, sunk, or impressed with
dies of buckles and buttons, which are confined opposite to each other in a
frame, and are turned by a mill or by hand, after the same method as those
commonly used for the purpose of rolling or flating gold, silver, iron, or mettal.

page_text: The gold, silver, iron, or mettal to be made into buckles and buttons receives
he impression of buckles and buttons by being conveyed between the roller
r cylenders.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty, and in the twentieth year of
the reign of our said Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
JOSEPH HODGES.
THOS H. FARREN,
Clerk to Mr. Hodges.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1780, the aforesaid William Bell came before our said
Lord the King in His 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 stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seven-
teenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1780, the aforesaid William Bell came before our said
Lord the King in His 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 stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seven-
teenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty.