A METHOD OF MAKING HORSE SHEARS, WOOL SHEARS, AND GLOVERS' SHEARS
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WILKINSON, of Grimesthorpe, in. the Parish of Sheffield, in the County of
York, Shearsinith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fifth day of January now last past, did give and grant
unto me, the said William Wilkinson, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His
special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
William Wilkinson, my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend my Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING HORSE SHEARS, WOOL SHEARS,
AND GLOVERS' SHEARS," within that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said William
Wilkinson, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or any of them, should seem
meet; in which said Letters Patent a proviso is contained that if I, the said
William Wilkinson, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to
be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages

page_text: thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the
said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Wilkinson, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings in the margin of these Presents, and
in manner following (that is to say):-
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My Invention consists in affixing a steel spring within or upon the shank
or handle of the shears, or upon the blade or stop of the blade, all being below
the bow.
The Drawings A and B represent shears of the usual form, with the
addition of one of my springs to each of them, Figures 1 and 2 marking
those springs. The blades are represented between the Figures 3 and 4, the
latter Figure being upon the stop of the blade. The shank or handle is the
To the
part between the Figures 4 and 5. The bow is marked a, b, c.
shank or handle I affix, either by rivetting, brazing, screwing, or soldering,
one of the said springs marked 1 and 2, or of those marked 8 and 9; but I
do not confine myself to the particular part of the shank or handle, or of the
blade or stop of the blade, on which to affix the spring, nor to the particular
size or shape thereof, as I shall vary the position and the size or shape of the
spring the better to suit the purposes for which the shears are required. And
I shall sometimes place the spring with the head thereof towards the bow, and
sometimes with the head verging towards the blades; in every case, however,
affixing the spring to the shank or handle of the shears, or the blade or stop
of the blade, either by rivetting, brazing, screwing, or soldering the same. By
my said Invention the blades or cutting part of the shears will unite and keep
in close and compact order when in use.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Wilkinson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1813, the aforesaid William Wilkinson 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 written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.