NEW-INVENTED HATS AND CAPS, OF COPPER, TIN, AND OTHER METALS, JAPANNED
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
HANDS, of the Borough of Southwark, in the County of Surry, Brazier, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Fourth day of August, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said Samuel Hands, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, special licence that I, the said Samuel Hands, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED HATS AND CAPS, OF
COPPER, TIN, AND OTHER METALS, JAPANNED;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said Samuel Hands, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same was 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 one calendar month next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent should determine
and be void, as by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and in pursuance of the said
proviso in the said in part recited Letters Patent contained, I, the said
Samuel Hands, by this Instrument in writing under my hand and seal, do
ascertain and more particularly describe the nature of my said Invention in
the said Letters Patent- mentioned, and declare the same to be in manner and
form following:-
I cause a piece of copper, tin, or other metal, whereof my said new-invented
hat or cap is made, to be annealed repeatedly by fire, and the crown of such
hat or cap to be raised by beating out the same with a hammer. I cause
the brim thereof to be flatted off, and brought into the form of a hat or
cap, by beating the same with a hammer; and I then cause a small wire to
be placed round the brim of my said new-invented hat or cap, and the brim
turned over in the same manner as other copper and tin vessells in general are
wired. I then cause a small hoop, of the heighth of half an inch, to be punched
full of small holes as near the bottom edge as possible, the holes at the distance
of one eighth part of an inch. I then cause the hoop to be cleaned, and
tinned on the outside about a quarter of an inch from the top edge. I then
cause the said hoop to be fixed to the crown of my said new-invented hat or
cap by soldering the same as far as the tip .extends .to, the inside of the said
crown, about a quarter of an inch from the brim; or, after I have punched
the said holes or strips in the hoop, I cause the same to be affixed to iny said
new-invented hat or cap by soldering to the said hoop six or more..long strips
of copper or other metal in equal distances from each other. These strips I
cause to be cut of the length of the crown of my said new-invented hat or cap,
and to be soldered thereto at the top of the crown, and the hoop come down to
the bottom of the brim of the hat or cap. I then cause a small nut, made of
any metal, to be set in the front or back part of my said new-invented bat or
cap in manner following:-I cause a small hole to be punched. in the crown of
my said new-invented hat or cap, about three quarters of an inch from the
brim, to receive the said nut. I then cause the said nut to be stampt with a
button set into the said hole, and then soldered. I then cause to be. cut with
a small, drill a hole through the center of the nut. I then cause to be cut in
the hole, so drilled to receive a screw. I then cause a spring of copper to be
male in manner following:-I cause a piece of copper to be cut in the shape
of a T, and the foot thereof to be soldered to the top of the crown, leaving the
upper part to press against the nut, fixed in manner. aforesaid; then I' cause a
skrew of brass to be skrewed through the aforesaid nut, and which skrew
works against the said spring, and expands or contracts the lining affixed in

page_text: the crown of my said new-invented hat or cap, or I expand or contract the
lining, without the aforesaid spring, by two sinall half hoops, in manner fol-
lowing:-I cause two small slips of copper, in lengthi sufficient to reach from
the top of the crown of my said new-invented hat or cap to the bottom, to be
soldered on the center of two half hoops of copper, of about half an inch in
depth. I then cause the half hoops, with the strips soldered thereto, to be
placed on the inside of the crown of iny said hat or cap, the half hoops to reach
the bottom of the crown, and meet eacli other within about two inches. I
then causo the top ends of the slips of copper to be soldered on the top of the
crown of the said hat or cap. I then cause a small elastic spring of brass to
be soldered on at each end of the spring to each end of the said hoops. I
cause my said new-invented hat or cap to be lined as follows:-I cause a piece
of flannel to be made of the size of the crown, and placed therein; then I
cause a piece of linen, of the size of the crown of my said hat or cap, to bé
sowed through the holes or strips of the aforesaid hoop at the bottom of the
brim, and where there is no hoop, to the holes and strips punched at the
bottom of the crown, in manner aforesaid. Or I cause my said new-invented
hat or cap to be made and composed of two pieces of copper in manner.
following that is to say, I cause an oval piece of copper, of a sufficient size
for the crown of my said hat or cap, to be annealed repeatedly by fire and beät.
with a hammer into the shape of such crown. I then cause an oval piece of
copper to be cut out of the middle of a round piece of a sufficient size to form
the brim and .collar of the hat or cap after such oval piece is taken from the
same. I then cause such round piece to be annealed by fire, and beat with à
hammer to a proper size for the brim and collar. I then cause a small wire
to be placed round the brim of my new-invented hat or cap in manner before.
mentioned. I then.cause small holes to be punched round the bottom of the
crown as near, the. edge as possible, such holes being at the distance of one
eighth of an inch, in order to receive the lining of such hat or cap; as hercafter
mentioned. I then prepare the crown of my new-invented bat or cap, to be
fixed to the brim thereof, as follows:-I clean the crown on the outside about
an inch from the edge, and tin it round where so cleaned. I then clean the
inside edge of the collar in like manner about a quarter of an inch. I then
cause the crown and brin to be soldered together, keeping the collar on-the
outside the crown, and bring the crown as low down as the brim; or, instead
of soldering the crown to the collar, and punching the bottom of the crown full
of holes and strips, I cause the bottom of the crown to be turned out with a
hammer about half an inch, and then returned half back. I then cause a small

page_text: hoop of copper to be punched full of holes or strips as near one of the edges as
possible. I then cause a rim to be turned out from the other edge about a
quarter of an inch. I then cause a rim of about a quarter of an inch to be
turned from the collar of the brim of my said new-invented hat or cap. I
then-cause the hoop to be placed withinside the collar, the rim of the hoop to
.be laid on the rim of the collar; then I cause the crown to be put on the rim
of the hoop and collar. I then cause the three rims to be all hammered
together, and then turned down towards the brim of the hat or cap. I then
.cause a spring, with a nut and skrew, to be fixed in my said hat or cap for the
purpose of expanding or contracting the lining of the crown, in the same
manner as herein-before specified when my said hat or cap is made with one
piece of copper; and I also cause a lining to be fixed in the crown, in manner
as also before specified. When my said new-invented hat or cap is made for
women I cause three small wires to be placed on each side the brim thereof
near the crown, of the distance of near half an inch from each other, in order
to receive strings to tie my said hat round the head; or I cause small holes
to be punched thro' the bottom of the crown of the hat close to the brim, that
pins may pass through; and I.cause the crown and brim of my said hat or
cap, when made of copper, to be of the substance, when finished, of a three-
pound plate of copper; if composed of any other metal, I cause such new-
invented hat or cap of as thin a substance as the nature of the metal
will admit. I cause my said new-invented hat or cap to be trimed in the
same manner as copper vessells generally are, and to be japanned all over the
¡outside.
And I do hereby declare, that I mean and intend that my said Invention
sball extend, and my said hat or cap is made of tin or other metals.
In witness whereof, I, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second
day of September, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, in
the twenty-fifth year of the reign of His said Majesty King George
the Third

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of September, in the
year above mentioned, the said Samuel Hands came before our said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above mentioned.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of their Majesties King William
and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Second day of September, in the year above written.