A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BALANCE WEIGHTS USED FOR COUNTERBALANCING PENDANT LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ralph Heaton, the younger, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, and Harry Heaton, of Birmingham, aforesaid, and
George Heaton, of Birmingham, aforesaid, Manufacturers and Copartners;
for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BALANCE
WEIGHTS USED FOR COUNTERBALANCING PENDANT LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS,
AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 4th November 1856, and dated the 7th May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ralph Пeaton, Harry
Heaton, and George Heaton, at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 7th May 1856.
We, RALPH HEATON, the younger, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and HARRY HEATON, of Birmingham, aforesaid, and GEORGE HEATON,
of Birmingham, aforesaid, Manufacturers and Copartners, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF
BALANCE WEIGHTS USED FOR COUNTERBALANCING PENDANT LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS,
AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
Balance weights are ordinarily manufactured of stamped brass, the interior.
being filled with lead for the purpose of making them sufficiently heavy. Our
Invention consists in making balance weights of cast iron, and afterwards
plating or coating the same with brass or other metal or alloy, by means of the

page_text: well-known processes of electro-metallurgy; or any other method of coating the
said cast iron may be employed. We cast the balance weights solid, or nearly
solid, so that they do not require to be weighted with lead. Our Invention is
applicable to the manufacture of balance weights used for counterbalancing
pendant lamps and chandeliers, scales, or balances used by grocers and others,
and balance weights for any of the purposes to which balance weights are or
may be employed. We do not think it necessary to describe the processes
whereby we cast and coat balancé weights made according to our Invention,
as the said processes are well known and commonly practised, and constitute
no part of our Invention.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Ralph Heaton, Harry Heaton, and George Heaton in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS: SHALL COME, we, RALPH
HEATON, the younger, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, and HARRY
HEATON, of Birmingham, aforesaid, and GEORGE HEATON, of Birmingham,
aforesaid, Manufacturers and Copartners, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, er heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said Ralph
Heaton, Harry Heaton, and George Heaton, Her special licence, that we, the
said Ralph Heaton, Harry Heaton, and George Heaton, our executors, admi-
nistrators and assigns, or such others as we, the said Ralph Heaton, Harry
Heaton, and George Heaton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, froni time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed; should. and lawfully might maké, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF BALANCE WEIGHTS USED FOR COUNTERBALANCING PENDANT LAMPS
AND CHANDELIERS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Ralph Heaton, Harry Ileaton, and George Heaton, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, or them, 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

page_text: in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. ...
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Ralph Heaton, the younger, 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 following
statement thereof, that is to say:
Our Invention consists, of the method herein-after particularly described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing of manufacturing balance weights
used for counterbalancing pendant lamps, chandeliers, and for other purposes.
Balance weights are ordinarily manufactured of stamped sheet. brass, the said
stamped sheet brass being made of any desired ornamental form, and filled
with lead for the purpose of making them-sufficiently heavy.
or
In carrying our Invention into effect, we make the said balance weights of
cast iron, and afterwards plate or coat the same with brass, silver, or other
metal or alloy, by means of the well-known processes of electro-metallurgy;
by any other method whereby the said coating can be effected. We cast the
said balance weights solid, or nearly solid, so that they do not require to be
weighted with lead, or only with a small portion of lead or other material.
The said casting of the balance weights may either be effected in metal, in.
sand, or in other moulds. We have represented in the accompanying Drawing
two of the more ordinary forms of balance weights; Figure 1 representing a
balance weight, through which the vertical arm of the chandelier passes; and
Figure 2 representing a balance weight, of which two or more are used,
hanging on opposite sides of the vertical arm of the chandelier.
We do not think it necessary to describe the method of casting balance
weights, as the said casting may be effected by the ordinary method of casting;
nor do we think it necessary to describe the electro-metallurgical or chemical
processes by which a coating of brass, copper, silver, or other metal or alloy
may be deposited or precipitated upon iron, as the said processes of depositing
or precipitating are well known and commonly practised, and constitute no
part of our Invention; the essence of our Invention consisting in manu-
facturing balance weights by the combination of the processes of casting in iron
and depositing or precipitating other metal or alloy upon the cast iron. Our
Invention is applicable to the manufacture of balance weights used for counter-
balancing pendant lamps and chandeliers, scales, or balances used by grocers
and others, and balance weights for any of the purposes to which balance
weights are or may be employed.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not limit

page_text: ourselves to the precise details hercin described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of our said Invention; but
we claim as our Invention the new or improved manufacture of balance
weights used for counterbalancing pendant lamps, chandeliers, and for other
purposes herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing
that is to say, making the said balance weights of cast iron, and afterwards
coating them with brass, or other alloy or metal, by electro-metallurgical or
other processes, whereby brass, or other alloy or metals, may be deposited or
precipitated upon cast iron.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ralph Heaton, the younger, have hereunto
hand and seal, this First day of November, in the year of our
set my.
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
RALPH HEATON, JUNIOR. (L.S.)