METHOD OF STAMPING, IMPRESSING, OR ROLLING OF SCISSARS OUT OF A BAR, SHEET, PLATE, OR STRING OF STEEL, BY MEANS OF CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS, MACHINES, OR APPARATUS CALLED STAMPS, FLY STAMPS, FLY OR SCREW PRESSES, OR ROLLING WITH CYLINDERS,
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, BENJAMIN
BLONK, of the Town of Sheffield, in the County of York, Scissor Maker, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS the said Benjamin Blonk did, by his Petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that he
had, after great study, labour, and expence, invented and brought to perfection
A METHOD OF STAMPING, IMPRESSING, OR ROLLING OF SCISSARS OUT OF A BAR,
SHEET, PLATE, OR STRING OF STEEL, BY MEANS OF CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS, MACHINES,
OR APPARATUS CALLED STAMPS, FLY STAMPS, FLY OR SCREW PRESSES, OR ROLLING
WITH CYLINDERS," which the Petitioner humbly apprehended would be of great
publick utility, that the same had never been made, used, or perfected by any
other person or persons whatsoever, to the best of his knowledge and belief,
and in regard the Petitioner was the sole Inventor thereof, he most humbly
prayed that His said Majesty would be graciously pleased to grant unto him,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of his said
Invention within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
and His Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, accord-
ing to the Statute in that case made and provided; and 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 his request, and
therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
eighth day November, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and suc-
cessors, did give and grant unto the said Benjamin Blonk, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege

page_text: and authority, that he, the said Benjamin Blonk, his executors, adminis
trators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his
and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the
said Benjamin Blonk, his executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend his said Invention within that part of His Majesty's
said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said
Benjamin Blonk, bis executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them,
should in his or their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said Benjamin
Blonk, his executors, administrators, 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, privileges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto him, the said Benjamin
Blonk, his executors, administrators, 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 endleil according
to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that if the said Benjamin Blonk, should not par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's.
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, reference being thereto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, be, the said
Benjamin Blonk, doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature of his said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, that is to
say:
Stamping, flying, impressing, or rolling of scissors is done and performed by
preparing a barr, sheet, plate, or string of steel to a proper size (by hammering,
rolling, or tilting), out of which the scissor is then formed, by means of a
hole or opening, of a proper size and shape, being made in and through the
whole body or mass of a block of iron, steel, or other metals, which block

page_text: serves.as and is commonly known. by the name of a bed, upon which hole or
opening in the said bed may be placed a boss of iron, .steel, or other. metals,
with a hole or opening in and through the same boss, in the exact shape.and
size required. Then a punch (or other block of iron, steel, or other metals;),.is
made to fitt, and to be exactly conformable in form, size, and shape.to the,hole
or opening in the block or bed (or in:the said boss).above mentioned...Then
these two blocks (or what are commonly called bed and punch), are fixed.in: a
fly-stamp, or in a fly-press, or in a screw-press, so .exactly that, by placing the
barr, sheet, plate, or string of steel between them, and the punch being passed
through the said barr, sheet, plate, or string of steel into or through the *hole
or opening in the said bed, or in the said boss, thereby cuts out a piece of the
said steel in the proper size and shape of a scissor. Then two dies, being sunk
or engraved as a mould or matrix to give the intended form or impression of
the scissor, and fixed in a fly-stamp or fly-press, or in a screw-press (or other-
wise by means of a certain instrument used for stamping, commonly called a
willing boy), or in a machine or instrument commonly called a stamp, is there
stamped, squeezed, or impressed into the exact form, figure, or shape of the
scissor intended and required. The making of scissors by means of rolling is
done and performed by sinking or engraving the size, shape, and form of the
scissor in or upon rollers or cylinders made of iron, steel, or other metals,
which are placed or fixed in a frame, and act as a common flatting or rolling
mill; through which rollers or cylinders a barr, sheet, plate, or string of steel
(previously prepared, and of proper size and dimensions) being passed, certain
parts of the said barr, sheet, plate, or string (coming in contact with the
engraved parts of the rollers or cylinders) are impressed with the true figure,
shape, and size of the scissor intended or required, and which parts so impressed
are afterwards cut out at the fly or press by means of the said bed or boss and
punch herein first above mentioned and described.
In witness whereof, the said Benjamin Blonk hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of November, One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-five.
Signed and sealed by the within-
named Benjamin Blonk, in the
presence of us,
BENJAMIN (L.S.) BLONK.
BENJAMIN (L.S.) BLONK.
Signed and sealed by the within-
named Benjamin Blonk, in the
presence of us,
THO SERMBOUM, Att,
Sheffield.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of November,
in the year above mentioned, the said Benjamin Blonk came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above men-
tioned. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of Their Majesties
King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year above written.