CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATCHES
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
MARSH, of Kings Street, in the Parish of Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the.
County of Middlesex, Watchmaker, 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 Ninth day of September, in the:
fifty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Marsh,
my exors, aduiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Thomas Marsh, my exors, adññiors, 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, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF WATCHES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that
if I, the said Thomas Marsh, 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 enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar.
months 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, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Marsh, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed, are described as follows, that is
to say:-
The wheel being first made of brass or steel, with a broad edge equally divided,
and the upper edge to be cut with a common tooth; when so cut, to have one
or more teeth taken out for the pinion to vibrate free in every given distance;
the train proposed requires the other set of teeth sloped off to a point suitable
to lock on a pallet or pass through the notch of a roller.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Marsh, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twelve.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
MARSH. of Kings Street, in the Parish of Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the
County of Middlesex, Watchinaker, 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 Ninth day of September, in the
fifty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Marsh,
my exors, admiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Thomas Marsh, my exors, adiñiors, 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, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OP WATCHES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that
if I, the said Thomas Marsh, 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 enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months 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, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Marsh, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and.

page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed, are described as follows, that is
to say :-
The wheel being first made of brass or steel, with a broad edge equally divided,
and the upper edge to be cut with a common tooth; when so cut, to have one
or more teeth taken out for the pinion to vibrate free in every given distance;
the train proposed requires the other set of teeth sloped off to a point suitable.
to lock on a pallet or pass through the notch of a roller.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Marsh, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
Inrolled the Seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and twelve.