CERTAIN PLATE, AND HOOP OR BAND, OF A CIRCULAR OR OTHER FORM, EITHER ATTACHED TO OR DETACHED FROM EACH OTHER, TO BE MADE USE OF IN THE MOUNTING GLASS CHANDALIERS, GERANDOLES, OR OTHER LUSTRES, AND WHICH IN CONSEQUENCE THEREOF HAD A MUCH HORE ELEGANT FORM THAN ANY WHICH HAD BEEN THERETOFORE USED, AS BY MEANS OF SUCH INVENTION THE UPPER AND LOWER BRANCHES HAD THE APPEARANCE OF BEING ONE BRANCH ONLY
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, MOSES LAFOUNT,
of Pleasant Row, Pentonville, in the County of Middlesex, Lustre Maker,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of December, in the thirty-seventh
year of His reign, reciting or taking notice that the said Moses Lafount had,
by his Petition, humbly represented unto His said Majesty that, after great
study, industry, and application, he had invented a "CERTAIN PLATE, AND
HOOP OR BAND, OF A CIRCULAR OR OTHER FORM, EITHER ATTACHED TO OR DETACHED
FROM EACH OTHER, TO BE MADE USE OF IN THE MOUNTING GLASS CHANDALIERS,
GERANDOLES, OR OTHER LUSTRES, AND WHICH IN CONSEQUENCE THEREOF HAD A MUCH
HORE ELEGANT FORM THAN ANY WHICH HAD BEEN THERETOFORE USED, AS BY MEANS
OF SUCH INVENTION THE UPPER AND LOWER BRANCHES HAD THE APPEARANCE OF
BEING ONE BRANCH ONLY;" and therefore praying His said Majesty's Letters
Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole use, benefit, and
advantage of the said Invention within that part of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for
the term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso whereby it is declared, that if the
said Moses Lafount should not describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed and executed,
by an instrument in writing under his hand and scal, and cause the same to

page_text: be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, then the
same Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Moses Lafount. in compliance with the said
proviso or condition contained in the said Letters Patent, doth hereby describe
and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and the manner of making and
performing the same, by the plans or particulars thereof hereunder written.
In witness whercof, the said Moses Lafount hath hereunto set his hand
and scal, the Nineteenth day of January, in the thirty-seventh year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and ninety-seven.
The Schedule to which the above-written Deed Poll refers, being a plan or
particular of the manner of making and performing the Juvention in the
sanie Deed mentioned.
Letter A. The Drawing in the right-hand margin is the internal view of
the plate, and hoop or band, which serve to conjoin the different parts or
members of which the chandalier, gerandole, or other lustre is composed.
Figures 1 is the hoop or band encircling the plate.
Figures 2 are sockets in the internal part of the hoop or band, in which the
upper branches (Figures 3) are fastened.
Figures are sockets in the plate itself, serving as a fastening to the
lower branches (Figures 5), which descend through the dents or vacuities
(Figures 6), and seeming from the effect given by the hoop or band to unite
with the upper branches so as to give both the appearance of one branch
only.
Figures 7 is an aporture through which a rod or chain may extend from
the upper to the lower extremity of the chandalier, gerandole, or other
lustre.
Letter B, the Drawing in the left-hand margin, is a chandalier completo,
according to the Invention, of six lights only, to which may be added one or
more tier or rows of lights, also to be issuing out of the plate or plates.
Letter C, in the right-hand margin, is the section of a table, side, or other
lustrc.
Figure 1 is the plate without the hoon in Letter B.

page_text: Figure 2 is an intire branch, instead of an upper and lower branch, uniting
in the centre, as in Letter B.
The Invention is to shew that although in Letter B, from its size, the
branches cannot be made intire, yet that in a reduced size that may be
accomplished.