IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING CERTAIN ARTICLES OR PARTS OF ARTICLES MADE OF TIN-PLATE, AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Newell, of Birmingham, in the County
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ORNAMENTING CERTAIN ARTICLES OR PARTS OF ARTICLES MADE OF TIN-PLATE,
AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Newell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on tho
12th February 1873.
I, WILLIAM NEWELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING CERTAIN ARTICLES OR PARTS OF ARTICLES MADE
OF TIN-PLATE AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
ornamenting articles or parts of articles made of tin plate, having such
a figure as can be spun, turned, or operated upon while rotating in a
lathe, and in apparatus to be used for that purpose.

page_text: My Invention is specially applicable to the manufacture of the bodies
and lids of tea pots, and other vessels to plate covers and to waiters, but
is also applicable to various other articles or parts of articles made of
tin plate.
I will describe my Invention as applied to the ornamenting of the
upper part of the body of a tea pot. I make a concave or bowl shaped
die of steel having the figure of the part of the body of the pot to be
ornamented, and upon the internal surface of the said die I engrave or
sink the design or ornament with which the pot is to be ornamented.
The said die is provided with a screw or other means of fixing it in a
lathe head or other mechanism by which a rotatory motion may be
given to it after the manner of a chuck of a lathe. I take the upper
part of the body of the pot to be ornamented made in the usual way,
and having fixed the said die in the lathe I insert the upper part of the
pot therein. A rotatory motion is then given to the die containing the
upper part of the pot, and by means of a pressing or burnishing tool
applied to and forcibly pressed against all parts in succession of the
rotating body of the pot, the said body is pressed with great force
against the interior of the ornamented die and is thereby made to receive
or is impressed with the design or ornament engraved on the die. The
upper part of the body of the pot thus ornamented is made up or
finished in the ordinary way. The lower half of the body, the lid, and
foot of the tea pot may be ornamented in a similar manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Newell in the Great Seal Patent Office 2
on the 6th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
NEWELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 3
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in
the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Newell, Her

page_text: special license that I, the said William Newell, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Newell, my
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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING CERTAIN ARTICLES OR PARTS OF ARTICLES
MADE OF TIN-PLATE, AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Newell, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly 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 immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Newell, 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
O following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
ornamenting articles or parts of articles made of tin-plate, having such a
figure as can be spun or operated upon while rotating in a lathic and in
apparatus to be used for that purpose.
My Invention is specially applicable to the ornamenting of the bodies
and lids of tea pots and other vessels to plate covers and to waiters, but
is also applicable to various other articles or parts of articles made of
tin-plate.
I will describe my Invention as applied to the ornamenting of the
upper part of the body of a tea pot, I make a concave or bowl shaped
die of steel having the figure of the part of the body of the pot to be
ornamented, and upon the internal surface of the said die I engrave or
sink the design or ornament with which the pot is to be ornamented.
The said die is provided with a screw or other means of fixing it in a
3 lathe head or other mechanism by which a rotatory motion may be given
to it after the manner of a chuck of a lathe. I take the upper part of
the body of the pot to be ornamented, made in the usual way, and

page_text: having fixed the said die in the lathe, I insert the upper part of the pot
therein. A rotatory motion is then given to the dic containing the
upper part of the pot and by means of a pressing or burnishing tool
applied to and forcibly pressed against all parts in succession of the
rotating body of the pot, the said body is pressed with great force against
the interior of the ornamented die, and is thereby made to receive or is
impressed with the design or ornament engraved on the die. The upper
part of the body of the pot thus ornamented is made up, or finished in
the ordinary way. The lower half of the body and the lid and foot of
the tea pot may be ornamented in a similar manner.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings, the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in elevation a tea pot made of tin-plate, the upper
part of the body of the said tea pot being ornamented by the process and
apparatus constituting my Invention.
The body of the tea pot is composed of two bowl shaped parts or
shells a, b, joined together in the manner represented. The upper
part a of the said body before it is ornamented is represented in elevation
and section in Figure 2. The said upper part or shell a is made by
stamping in dies in the ordinary way. The apparatus which I use for
ornamenting the upper part or shell a of the body of the tea pot is
represented in Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Figure 3 representing a
portion of an ordinary lathe to which my Invention is applied, Figure 4
representing the burnishing or pressing tool which I use, and Figure 5
representing in clevation, Figure 6 in front view, and Figure 7 in
section drawn of the full size, the ornamented steel die which I use in
carrying my Invention into effect. The said die is marked c and has in
section the concave or bowl shape of the upper part or shell a of the
body of the pot to be ornamented (see Figure 7). Upon the internal
surface of the said die e the design or ornament with which the body
or shell a is to be ornamented is engraved or sunk as represented. In
the axis of the die c is a concave screw d by which it is fixed to the
screwed end e of the rotating spindle f of the lathe Figure 3; g is the
ordinary hand rest represented in perspective in Figure 3, by which
the burnishing or pressing tool Figure 4 is supported.
In ornamenting the plain upper part or shell a of the body Figure 2, by
my Invention, I proceed as follows:-I place the said shell a in the hollow

page_text: ornamented die c secured to the lathe spindle f, and I fix the said
shell a in the said die by means of a block of wood placed axially in
the said shell, as illustrated in Figure 3. The said block is secured in
its place in the shell a by the pressure of the centre i, the said block
rotating with the die c and shell a. The centre i is advanced and with-
drawn by means of a screw operated by the hand wheel ²; after the
shell a has been fixed in the die c, the lathe is put into operation and a
rotatory motion communicated to the die c and shell a. The burnishing
or pressing tool, Figure 4, being supported on the rest 9, and against the
stop gas a fulcrum, the nose % of the said tool is applied to and forcibly
pressed against all parts in succession of the rotating body or shell a,
external to the holding block h, and the said body or shell a is pressed
with great force against the interior of the ornamented die, and is
thereby made to receive or is impressed with the design or ornament
sunk or engraved on the said die. The body or shell a thus ornamented
has the ornamental design given to it represented in Figure 1, the said
design being in relief. After the body or shell a has been thus
ornamented its bottom a² is pierced or cut away, and is connected to the
lower half or shell 6 of the body in the ordinary way. The said lower
half or shell and the lid and foot m of the tea pot may be ornamented
in the manner described by using ornamental dies of the figure proper
to receive the said parts, the internal surface of each die having engraved
upon it the desired ornamental pattern or design it is wished to impress
upon the said parts.
In ornamenting the bodies and lids of vessels other than tea pots and
plate covers, waiters and other articles and parts of articles made of tin-
plate capable of being ornamented by my Invention, I proceed in the
manner herein-before described with respect to the ornamentation of the
shell or upper part of the body of a tea pot.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and
illustrated, as the same may be varied without departing from the
nature of my Invention; but I claim as my Invention, the improve-
ments in ornamenting certain articles or parts of articles made of
tin-plate, and in apparatus to be used for that purpose herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, that is to say,
ornamenting such articles or parts of articles made of tin-plate, as can be

page_text: spun or operated upon while rotating in a lathe by fixing the article or part
thereof in a die secured to a rotating spindle, the said die being engraved
or sunk internally with the required design or ornament, and having the
shape of the article or part of the article to be ornamented, and pressing
forcibly the article during the rotation of the said die and article against
the interior of the ornamented' dic, so as to impress the said article with
the design or ornament engraved on the said die, substantially as
described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Newell, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
WILLIAM NEWELL. (L.S.)