AN IMPROVED MODE OF MAKING PIK s
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J,
EDWARD THOMASON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United King-
doms of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the
Seventh day of this instant February, in the forty-fourth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomason, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, His especial license that I, the said
Edward Thomason, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, execute, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales, and the
Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE
OF MAKING PIK s;" in which Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said Edward Thomason, under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with, and agreeable to the
true intent and meaning of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent
contained, I, the said Edward Thomason, do hereby declare that the
following is a particular description of the nature of my said Invention
and methods and improvements in the mechanism of pikes, both in
respect to principle, and the way and means in which the same may be
performed, that is to say:
With respect to principle, I cause the pike part or sword blade part
to be ejected or forced out at one end of the tube, staff, or stail, by
the action of pulling towards you, or pushing from you, the handle part
at the other end belonging to the said tube, staff, or stail; and I cause
the pike part or sword blade part to be hid or forced up within the said
tube, staff, or stail, by the action of pushing from you, or pulling
towards you, the aforesaid handle or working part connected with or
belonging to the said tube, staff, or stail; and this Invention I call the
flagrante bello pike; and I claim the privilege of making these pikes
of any length, as circumstances may suit or occasions may require.
Now I do declare that the above-mentioned principle comprehends
the real object of my Invention; and in order for the better compre-
hension and understanding how the aforesaid may be reduced to
practical use, I do hereby further declare that altho' I vary the mode
of construction by a variation of circumstances to produce the said
effects and obtain the main purpose intended, yet I principally adhere
to the methods herein described, as being fully answerable to what is
required, and best calculated to be understood from the Drawings and
descriptions thereof, and the same is described in the three Drawings
and nine sections represented in the margin of these Presents. Drawing
No 1, represents the pike in a quiescent state, the pike part or sword
blade part being within the tube, staff, or stail (of section N° 2) B.
Drawing No 2, represents the pike ready for use as a weapon, the pike
part or sword blade part having been ejected or forced out at the end
of the tube, staff, or stail, B, by the movement of the handle A. Sec-
tions No 1, and N° 2, represent the outward tubes, staff's, or stails A,
and B, which two tubes, staffs, or stails appear (at a short distance)
when the pike is shut up, as one tube, staff, or stail, being connected

page_text: together by section N° 8. Section N° 8, is a connecting rod or tube,
fastened at one end to the handle, section No 1; and the other end is
fastened or attached to the end of the rack part at L, or section Nº 6;
on or in this connecting rod or tube, section N° 3, is a spring or stop,
as at D, which is to prevent the tubes, staffs, or stails, sections No 1,
and No 2, closing together at F, F, when the pike is in actual use as
a weapon; but by forcing down the spring D, the two tubes, staffs,
or stails A, and B, may be closed or pushed together, as appears in
Drawing No 1, as at F. Sections N° 4, N° 5, and N° 6, are two racks
and cog wheel, all of which work or move together within the tubes,
section No 2, unexposed to the eye, but work as represented in section
No 8; that is to say, the cog wheel, section Nº 5, is fixed by a pin
in the tube, section No 2, and moves on two centres, as at E, E, in
section No 2. Section N° 4, is a rack, to which the pike part or sword
blade part, No 7, is attach'd at K, and moves from G, to H, on the
cog wheel, section No 5.
Section No 6, is the other rack, and which
moves from N to O on the cog wheel, section No 5, and the end I is
fastened to one end of the connecting rod, section N° 8, as at P. It is
evident then, that when the cog wheel is fixed in the tube, section N° 2,
and the two racks properly placed, as in section N° 8, that by pulling
the end of the rack I, it will give action to the cog wheel, section Nº 5,
which cog wheel in moving, gives action to the other rack, section Nº 4,
and if the racks and cog wheels are truly made, the rack, section Nº 4,
will recede from you just as much as the other rack, section No 6, will
move towards you. It is by these means that the pike becomes
clongated at both ends, and the pike part or sword blade part, section
No 7, forced out of the tube, staff, or stail, N° 2, in the most convenient
manner for use. Section No 9, is another manner of making the
internal movements to obtain the same motion, and answer the same
end, that is to say, instead of racks and cogg wheels, as in section N° 8,
I use two, or a greater or lesser number of rolers or drums, which
move upon their centres at S, S, S. S; I use a band of leather, or any
convenient substance that will answer the purpose, to put round these
rolers, drums, or pullies, which band I attach or fasten to it's two ends,
as tight as convenient; the leg or shaft L, U, V, is fastened to one

page_text: side of the band, and the leg or shaft W, is fastened to the other side
of the band; the leg or shaft L, U, V, then becomes the acting leg, or
that which is joined to the connecting rod or section No 3, and the leg
or shaft W, is attached to the pike part or sword part, section No 7
It appears evident that if the leg L, is pulled, the band will move
round upon the rolers in a space nearly as great as the distance from
one roler to another, consequently the leg L, will have moved with the
handle A, the like space, and the leg W, on the contrary, will recede
and push out the pike part or sword blade part at the contrary end,
as shewn in the Drawing No 2, as at Q. Drawing N° 3, exemplifies
another mode of forcing the pike part or sword blade part out of the
end of the tube, staff, or stail; that is to say, Z, is in part a hollow. tube,
staff, or stail, with a grove cut a certain length on or in one side from
G, to G; H, is another tube which slides upon the aforesaid tube, staff,
or stail; a rib or tongue is fastened to the inner part of the tube H, and
passes into the grove where it is shoulder'd; at this shoulder, which
comes within the inner tube Z, is attached the leg end of the pike part
or sword part, therefore by pulling the outer tube H, up the grove
G, G, the pike part or sword blade part will be drawn up into the tube,
staff, or stail Z, and by pushing the tube H, back again, the pike part
or sword blade part will be drawn or forced out at the end of the tube
Z, as exemplified in the Drawing N° 3. And I do hereby further declare
that these pikes may be made of any length or weidth required, and
also that they may be made of any kind of metal, such as iron, steel,
copper, brass, tin, or any other metal or composition of metals, or any
kinds of wood, bones, ivory, paper, or any other substance or compo-
sition of substances that inay be found sufficiently strong and proper for
the purposes of manufacturing these pikes; and I also declare that I
ornament these pikes as circumstances require, which ornaments I
make of any kind of metal or metals, substance or substances, as may
be judged fit for the purpose.
In witness whereof I, the said Edward Thomason, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and four.
EDWARD THOMASON. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-eighth
day of February, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edward
Thomason came before our Lord the King, in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing
therein contained, in form above written. And also the Specification
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in that
case made and provided.
Inrolled the Second day of March, in the year above written.