COMBINING AND CONNECTING TOGETHER DIFFERENT KINDS OF METALS, AND OF COMBINING AND CONNECTING METALS AND WOOD TOGETHER IN SUCH WAY AS TO MAKE THE COMBINATION THEREOF, WHETHER THE SAME BE OP METALS, OR OF METALS AND WOOD, HAVE ONE APPEARANCE OR REPRESENTATION ONLY
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
Cook, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did;
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day
of June, in the fifty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Benjamin Cook, and to THOMAS ATTWOOD, of Birmingham aforesaid, our
exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that we, the said Benjamin Cook and the said Thomas Attwood,
our exors, adiñors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention or Improvement
of "COMBINING AND CONNECTING TOGETHER DIFFERENT KINDS OF METALS, AND OF
COMBINING AND CONNECTING METALS AND WOOD TOGETHER IN SUCH WAY AS TO
MAKE THE COMBINATION THEREOF, WHETHER THE SAME BE OP METALS, OR OF METALS
AND WOOD, HAVE ONE APPEARANCE OR REPRESENTATION ONLY;" in. which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging us, the said Benjamin
Cook and Thomas Attwood, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under
our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, to cause a
particular description of the nature of our said Invention or improvement,
and stating in what manner the same is performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months after the
date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin Cook, do describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in manner following, that is
to say-
We take rolled sheet iron or steel, which we cut into strips of such breadth
and length as may be suitable to the sizes of any tubes, pipes, or hollow rods
that we may have occasion to make. Then we sharpen such strips at one end
thereof, and when so formed we place the points in the holes of a drawplate,
such as is used for the drawing of wire. We then pass, force, or draw the said
strips through the said holes, or through grooves in rolls until the two sides
meet each other. We then either solder the two sides together or not, as may
be most convenient, and thus we form pipes, tubes, or hollow rods. These we
place in the inside of other pipes, tubes, or hollow rods made in the same
way, of copper or brass, or copper and brass mixed, or of some other more
valuable metal, plated metal, or mixture of metals; and we then pass, force,
or draw the whole through holes in a drawplate, or through grooves in rolls,
whereby we connect and combine the whole together, so that the combination
thereof has one appearance or representation only.
We do not claim any novelty in making tubes, pipes, or hollow rods of
iron or steel, but the merit of our Invention or improvement consists in the
casing or covering any kind of tubes, pipes, or hollow rods made in the way
above described, or in any other convenient way, of iron or steel.
I say,
the merit of our Invention is in casing or covering such tubes, pipes, or hollow
rods with metals more valuable, such as copper or brass, or copper and brass
mixed, or plated metal, or with any other metal or mixture of metals that will
answer the purpose, and we effect this object of casing or covering different
kinds of metals with other more valuable metals by passing, forcing, or draw-
ing the whole through holes in a drawplate as above described, or through
grooves in rolls, or by any other mechanical pressure, and we so force and
press the whole together that the different kinds of metals become so firmly
combined and connected together as to have one appearance or representa-
tion only.
There is another process by which we connect different metals together,
and form tubes so as to have the appearance of one metal only, which is
as follows, that is to say:-We take a strip of sheet iron or steel, which we
place upon another strip, rather broader, of copper or brass, or copper and
brass mixed, plated metal, or other more valuable metals, which last-mentioned
strip we turn over the sides of the strip of iron or steel, and then sharpen
one end of the strips thus united into a point, which we place in a hole in a

page_text: drawplate as above described, or in a groove in rolls, and then pass, force,
or draw the whole together through different holes or grooves as often as may
be necessary, and thus form a tube with a small opening along one side
thereof. If we have occasion to make tubes, pipes, or hollow rods of different
forms, we vary the forms of the holes in the drawplate, or of the grooves in
the rolls accordingly; and thus we form tubes either oval, square, or of such
other convenient form as we may wish. By the same mechanical pressure as
above described we also compress a tube of metal upon a solid rod or pole of
wood of any size that may be convenient; and thus we connect or combine
metals and wood together so as to have the appearance of metal only, and
which may be used with our metallic tubes for various purposes.
In witness whereof I, the said Benjamin Cook, have hereunto set my
hand and seal the Eleventh day of December, in the fifty-second year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eleven.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of December, in
the year of our Lord 1811, the aforesaid Benjamin Cook 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 Statute made for that
purpose.