A METHOD OF MAKING OF BRASS (OR OF ANY OTHER METAL OF WHICH THE COMPONENT PARTS ARE COPPER AND ZINCK) CHIM- NEY PIECES OR CHIMNEY-PIECE FRAMES, PLAIN OR ORNAMENTED, EITHER CAST OR OF ROLLED METAL, MOUNTED ON ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE, OR OF WHICH THE OUTWARD MOULDINGS OR FRAME AND INWARD PILASTERS SHALL BE COMPOSED OF SUCH METAL
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
LEWIS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass Founder, scud
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 Thirteenth day of April,
in the fifty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Robert
Lewis, my exors, adñors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Robert Lewis, my exors, admiors, and
assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein mentioned,
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING OF BRASS (OR OF
ANY OTHER METAL OF WHICH THE COMPONENT PARTS ARE COPPER AND ZINCK) CHIM-
NEY PIECES OR CHIMNEY-PIECE FRAMES, PLAIN OR ORNAMENTED, EITHER CAST OR OF
ROLLED METAL, MOUNTED ON ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE, OR OF WHICH THE OUTWARD
MOULDINGS OR FRAME AND INWARD PILASTERS SHALL BE COMPOSED OF SUCH METAL;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said
Robert Lewis, 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 His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then
the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby

page_text: 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
Robert Lewis, 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 :-
The several parts composing the chimney piece are first cast from patterns
accurately modelled in wood, either plain or ornamented, as may be requisite,
and afterwards accurately jointed and fixed together with screws and flanches;
being secured to the chimney front with bolts, so as to be easily removed and
put up again when any alteration or repairs become necessary in the apartment
by any servant or other person, thereby avoiding the great trouble and expence
necessarily incurred when chimney pieces of the common construction require
removal. The Drawing marked A represents an elevation of the inside of a
chimney piece constructed in the improved method, with a plan of the jambs
and pilasters. The plinths A, A, are cast in one separate piece, with a flanch
to receive the pilasters B, B, and jambs C, C, D, D, which are securely
attached to the plinths and pilasters by the screws a, a, b, b; the pannels E, E,
are securely fixed to the pilasters and to the frieze F, F, by the screws c, c.
The shelf G, G, and plate H, H, are fixed to the frieze in a similar manner.
The bed moulding d, d, may either be attached to the frieze and pannels by
screws, or cast in the same solid piece with either. When a chimney piece is
intended to be ornamented with foliage or other enrichments, the same may
be made separately, and fixed to the frieze or panuels with barbed springs, or
in any other suitable manner, or cast in the same solid piece, the outside
mouldings and inward jambs being made of brass, the pilasters and frieze may
be of steel, marble, or any other appropriate substance. The chimney pieces
are fixed to the chimney front, when the grates are moveable, by means of
bolts attached to a solid frame of wood or metal, which frame is securely fixed
level with the face of the plaistring upon the wall, the bolts passing through
the jambs and into the outside metal moulding. The outside metal moulding
to which the chimney piece is fixed is secured to the frame of wood or metal
by means of screws and nuts, or any other suitable fastening. In the
Drawing marked B, an elevation of the front of the chimney is shewn with
the frame of wood or metal A, A, A, and outside moulding B, B, describing
the position of the inside bolts C, C. D shews the edge of the jambs. When
a chimney piece is intended to be fixed to a grate which is not moveable,
outside bolts E, E, are used in lieu of the inside bolts C, C. The outside

page_text: bolts E, E, are fixed to the outside moulding, and pass through a hole drilled
in the jamb into a socket fixed in the inside. I prefer the method of fixing
the chimney pieces to the frames by means of bolts, but springs and catches,
or any other proper fastening, may be occasionally adopted for that purpose.
Although one particular design only is bere specified, yet the Invention is
applicable to any pattern whatever. When I construct chimney pieces of
rolled metal, I give the impression of the pattern by stamping or pressing;
and on whatever substance they are mounted, the method of fitting and fixing
them is uniformly the same as before described. Tho' I have in describing
the Drawings hereunto annexed said that I fix the different parts together by
screws and flanches (which I think the most advantageous method), yet they
may be fixed together by jointing them in any other manner that will admit
of their being removed as before expressed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Lewis, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirtoon.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirteen.