THE APPLICATION OF STAMPS, DIES, AND PIERCING TOOLS TO THE MANUFACTURING OP EARS, HANDLES, AND BEWELLS OF OD FOR CULINARY ARTICLES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, WHETHER IN WOOD, IRON, BRASS, TIN, SILVER, OR ANY MIXED METALS
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SANUEL
WHITFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brazier and Scale
Beam Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by
His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of January last, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Whitfield, His
special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Samuel Whitfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Samuel Whitfield, my exo-
cutors, 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, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention for
"THE APPLICATION OF STAMPS, DIES, AND PIERCING TOOLS TO THE MANUFACTURING
OP EARS, HANDLES, AND BEWELLS OF OD FOR CULINARY ARTICLES OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION, WHETHER IN WOOD, IRON, BRASS, TIN, SILVER, OR ANY MIXED
METALS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said Samuel Whitfield, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, particularly to describe the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's Iligli Court of Chancery within one calendar month next

page_text: and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, referrence being thereto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Whitfield, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the Plan or
Drawings annexed to these Presents, and the following description thereof,
that is to say:-
;
No. 1 is the blank of a kettle ear cut out of plate iron with the piercing
bed (Figure 3) and punch (Figure 2) by means of a press. The holes A are
then pierced in the same manner, and the blanks are annealed, after which
they are passed between the upper and lower dies (marked 4 and 5) in a
stamp, and come out compleated, as Figure 6, in which is seen the particular
manner of forcing the swell which strengthens the ear. Figure 7 is a sauce-
pan handle blank, which undergoes the same process, and receives its compleat
form, as appears by Figure 8. Figure 9 represents a blank cut out of rod
iron by means of piercing tools, which is then heated red hot, and in that state
is passed through two pairs of dies, one pair for the ends which extend up to
Z, the other pair for the middle; the holes B, in the Drawing of it in its
finished state, Figure. 10, are then pierced, and it is bent into form in the
usual manner. Note, cars for coal-scoops and hods are made in the same
manner as kettle ears, the beals and back handles being cut in proper lengths-
from rods of round iron, which in a red hot state are put into dies properly
formed to give the impression. The superfluous iron is clipped off by
piercing tools, and the beals and back handles are made of an eliptic or
circular form, as usual.-Note, bow-handles, suitable for fish pans, stew-pans,
-&c., are formed in like manner. Figure 14 shews the form of a beal and
ears for a bucket, which is made in manner following:-The beal is cut at a
proper length from rod iron, the middle swell and the ends are formed in a
red hot state by dies and stamps, and afterwards clipped if necessary. At the
ends are pierced holes C-the-middle is struck into its half-round-form-by-
another pair of dies. The blanks, Figures 12 and 13, are then cut out of plate
iron; the holes (C and D)-are pierced. They are then annealed, after which
the two blanks are rivetted-to the end of the beal, the smaller one on the
inside, the larger one on the outside, by the holes C. A rivet is then put in
holes D, which join the blanks, thereby forming a rule joint, after which the
holes Fare pierced, by which it is fixed to the bucket. In this state the ears
are put between an upper and lower die, properly formed, and they receive an
impression which fits them to the bucket. The beal is afterwards formed of a
circular or eliptic form, in the usual way. Figure 11 is an car for pots and

page_text: camp kettles. The two blanks which form the ears are stamped and then
rivitted, the ends, of the beal to be formed as in Figure 15 to admit of its
being fixed after the ears are rivetted on the vessel.-Note, any of the above
articles may be tinned or japanned in the usual way, and some of them may
be formed of copper, or brass, or other metal, or of two or more metals, and
prepared in rods or rolled into plates, according to the articles intended to be
made, observing, that where copper, or brass, or compounds of them are used,
annealing and heating hot in the process must be omitted; and the ears,
handles, and bewells may be in any shape different to such as are described in
the Drawing attached hereto.
In witness whereof, I have here set my hand and seal, the Eighteenth