AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SUCH PENS AS ARE USUALLY MADE OF STEEL OR OTHER ELASTIC METAL
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1,
SIMISTER of Manchester, Ironmonger, send greeting.
CHAKD
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-third day of December, in the fifth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Simister, His especial licence, that I, the said Richard
Simister, my exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Simister, my exors, adñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times 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
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SUCH PENS AS ARE USUALLY MADE
OF STEEL OR OTHER ELASTIC METAL;" in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso, obliging me, the said Richard Simister, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to
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 recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear,
NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Simister, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to

page_text: sist in what I call duplicate pens, that is to say, in shaping the upper end
the shank of ordinary steel pens, or that end which is placed in the holder
the form of a pen, as well as the lower end of it, which being done with
e same action of the press as the single-ended pens now in use. The double-
ded pens may be manufactured nearly as cheap as those now in use, while
consumer will have two pens for his money at nearly the same cost that
has been accustomed to pay for one.
And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Richard
nister, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be
formed, by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
In order to manufacture my said duplicate pens, I have only to make the
tools with which they are cut out of the thin pieces, plates or sheets
of steel or other elastic metal alike pen-formed at both ends of
the shank, and then to finish each end alike by the ordinary
means, so that a pen may be produced of the shape shown in the
margin of these Presents. Now, whereas, it is evident that the tools
may be so made, and the finishing adapted so as to make a fine
point at one end and a broad point at the other, which in some cases
would be highly useful to the shopkeeper, for instance, who might thus
ect his parcel in a large broad hand on coarse paper with one end of the
, and immediately turn to his day-book and make his entry in a neat fine
d with the other end.
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And whereas I claim as my Invention, shaping the upper end of the shank
an ordinary steel pen into the form of a pen as well as the lower end, so
t with one shank, and consequently one instrument, the writer has the ad-
ntage of two pens and such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge
d belief, entirely new, and never before used within that part of His said
ajesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His
d Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby
clare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe
s my said Specification doth comply in all respects fully and without
serve or disguise with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited
tters Patent contained, wherefore, I hereby claim to maintain exclusive
ht and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Simister, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
RICHARD (L.S.) SIMISTER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1835, the aforesaid Richard Simister, came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord Onc
thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.