IMPROVED MOUNTINGS OR FURNITURE APPLICABLE TO CULI- NARY AND OTHER UTENSILS
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
WHITFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brazier, 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 Twenty-eighth day of
April, in the fifty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Whitfield, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, His especial licence that
I, the said Samuel Whitfield, my exors, ádmors, and assigns, should and
lawfully might, during the term of years therein mentioned, make, use, exer-
cise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "IMPROVED MOUNTINGS OR FURNITURE APPLICABLE TO CULI-
NARY AND OTHER UTENSILS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso that if I, the said Samuel Whitfield, 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 Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties

page_text: 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
Samuel Whitfield, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof, that is to say:
Fig. 1 represents a candlestick spring or push-up, return'd at the bottom of
the screw'd part, which gives the screw of the thumbit a double hold.
Fig. 2 represents a pot ear, cast in iron or other suitable metal, with a stop
or rest for the beal at B, having a vertical support.
Fig. 3 is a front view, and Fig. 4 a side view, of a rule joint ear cast in.
iron or other suitable metal, for a fountain or tea boiler, shewing the stop or
rest for the beal:
Fig. 5 also represents a rule joint ear, suitable for a round or oval kettle.
These ears, No. 3 and 5, are cast with an opening or grove to receive the beal,
which works on a center pin, which pin is either cast in at the same time
with the ear, or screw'd or rivetted in after the ears are cast.
The casting
is-perform'd by the methods known to workmen, either by cores laid in to
form the groove or opening, or they are moulded from patterns made in two
parts.
Fig. 7 represents a rule joint ear, made of plate iron, copper, or any other
roll'd metal.
Fig. 6 represents the blank in the flatt, which is cut out with a fly press;
it is then put into form by the stamp or other mechanical methods, and the
center rivet is put in.
The specimens I have here given are sufficient to elucidate the nature of
my Invention; but I make rule joint ears of various sizes and in great variety
of shape, to suit the different kinds of culinary and other utensils, in some of
which the stop for the beal is situated different to these here described, and in
some the stop for the beal is left out. But I claim the sole right to manu-
facture rule joint ears with a center pin, and also all ears where the stop for
the beal is supported in a vertical direction, after the manner of Fig. 2.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Whitfield, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
SAMUEL WHITFIELD. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of June,
in the year of our Lord 1813, the aforesaid Samuel Whitfield came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowleged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
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