A BRADAWL SCREW
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Pilbeam, Architect, 2, Lonsdale Place,
Notting Hill, for the Invention of "A BRADAWL SCREW."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Pilbeam at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th August 1858.
I, ALEXANDER PILBEAM, Architect, 2, Lonsdale Place, Notting Hill, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A BRADAWL SCREW," to
be as follows:-
Fig. 1 & 2 are views, & shew the screw terminating with an end similar to
the bradawl; in use it merely requires to be struck with the hanimer down to
the end of the bradawl part & commencement of the screw; the screw-
driver must then be applied to turn it, and it will be found to penetrate the
wood as quickly, if not quicker, than the ordinary screw, which requires a hole
to be made for it first; & is much more secure; as the fibres are broken away
by the bradawl part they arrange themselves between the threads of the screw;
and it will also be seen that by being able to use the screw direct, one half the
labor is saved. They can be made' of all sizes, & applied to hooks, studs, &
rings, and anywhere where a screw is necessary.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander' Pilbeam in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th February 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER.
PILBEAM, Architect, of 2, Lonsdale Place, Notting Hill, send' greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Alexander Pilbeam, Her special licence that I, the said
Alexander Pilbeam, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Alexander Pilbeam, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "A BRADAWL SCREW," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,..the
said Alexander Pilbeam, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Pilbeam, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof:-
Fig. 1 & 2 are views, and shew the screw terminating with an end similar
to the bradawl; in use it merely requires to be struck with the hammer down:
to the end of the bradawl part and commencement of the screw; the screwdriver
must then be applied to turn it, and it will be found to penetrate the wood
as quickly, if not quicker, than the ordinary screw which requires a hole
to be made for it first; and. is much more secure; as the fibres are broken
away by the bradawl part they arrange themselves between the threads of the
screw; and it will also be seen that by being able to use the screw direct, one
half the labor is saved. They can be made of all sizes, and applied to hooks;
studs, and rings, and anywhere where a screw is necessary.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Pilbeam, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine.
ALEXANDEK FILBEAM. (L.S.)