ENGINES OR TOOLS
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, PETER
DEBAUFRE, of the Parish of Saint Dunstan in the West, in the City of
London, Watchmaker, sendeth greeting,
WHEREAS the said Peter Debaufre hath obtained His Majesty's Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Twenty-first
day of March last past, for the sole making and using "ENGINES OR TOOLS"
invented by him, the said Peter Debaufre, "FOR THE SHAVING, CUTTING, AND
PREPARING OF WOOD FOR MAKING OF HATS AND BONNETS OF THE SAME SORT AS
THOSE WHICH ARE IMPORTED INTO HIS SAID MAJESTY'S BRITISH DOMINIONS FROM
LEGHORN AND OTHER PARTS OF ITALY," within that part of the Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, during the term of fourteen years, pursuant to the
Statute in that case made and provided.
NOW the said Peter Debaufre doth hereby declare that the said engines
and tools invented by him the said Peter Debaufre are, a bench with a stop,
and a piece of iron or brass cut with many sharp teeth, well temper'd
and filed smooth, screwed on and kept steady with a pin of iron, steel, or
brass; a board of a proper length for the wood proposed to be cut, upon the

page_text: BACK OF WHICH board a piece of iron, steel, or brass, with a sharp edge of the
length of the board, is screwed with five large screws. On the other side are
two, three, four, or more pieces of steel, iron, or brass made to slide between
two other pieces of steel, iron, or brass screw'd down with two large screws to
each. The said middle piece of steel, iron, or brass is screwed on with a strong
screw, passing through a groove or narrow hole, and screw'd into the board,
having a very sharp edge on the right side.
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A gage consisting of the same number of teeth as the splits proposed to be
cut at one stroke, the teeth of the gage to be filed very smooth, with two
acute and two obtuse angles, and the points resembling the point of a lancet.
A plane with double irons screw'd together; plane with three irons, two
screw'd together, and a cutter standing before and a groove in the plain stock;
a pane with four irons, two of them screw'd together; a cutter before and a
cylindrical iron behind, fixed by two screws and two steady pins; a cutter
made of fine steel, with several points, champfer'd, and a space between each
tooth of the breadth of the split proposed.
A tool consisting of a piece of polish'd iron, flat and even on the top, and
champfer'd on the edges, with a large and strong foot or twang, to be put into
a vice; a piece of polished steel rivetted therein, and a little circular, and
nearly the breadth of the piece of iron; a steel bar fixed across the said piece
of steel with two largo screws, in which barr are three or more holes at right
angles with each other, of the breadth of the splits that you have a mind to
pass through; on one end is a large piece of flat brass fix'd in a bridge with
two screws, and a large piece of steel, iron, or brass fix'd in a joint with an
iron pin, and a spring under it, to play easy; another bridge on the opposite
side upon a right line, to receive the piece of steel, iron, or brass, which piece
will take as many cutters as your wool will allow.
A loome consisting of a large frame, and three rollers of different sizes, a
large click and spring to every one, set to a true upright, the tackle made of
small wood, and thread or silk that passes through glass, or brass, or wood
eyes, of the breadth or width wanted; the rollers are made to shift at any
distance required, instead of a shuttle.
A long peice of hard wood, very smooth, with a groove from one end to the
other. At one end is a flatt piece of steel, with two springs; one serves to shutt
close, and holds the split; the other, to lischarge the split when passed through
the frame. In a groove on the back side of the said piece of wood is a string,
by pulling of which the spring that holds the split is let fly, and the split
thrown into its proper place. The reed is made of round smooth steel wire,

page_text: in a manner that any one may be changed at pleasure. so as to work both
fine and course.
In witness whereof, the said Peter Debaufre bath hereunto set his
hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of July, in the ninth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King. Defender of the Faith,
&c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
sixty-nine.
JA JUIVERS.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Fifteenth day of July, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Peter Debaufre came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the above said Fifteenth day of July in the year aforesant.