A TRAVELLING TRUNK UPON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HANDFORD, residing at No. 94, in the Strand, in the Parish of St. Clement
Danes, in the City of Westminster, and County of Middlesex, Cabinet Maker
and Portable Desk Manufacturer, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of
September, in the fifty-second year of His reign, did give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Handford, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
special licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, the said
Thomas Handford, 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
Invention of "A TRAVELLING TRUNK UPON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION;" in
which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Thomas
Handford, under my hand and scal, to cause a particular description, or
explanation, or communication of the said Invention, to be enrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, 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
Thomas Handford, do hereby declare that the said Invention may be
comprehended, explained, and expressed as follows, viz:-
It is constructed of mahogany and other strong and durable wood, covered
with leather of superiour quality, angle-edged, and bound across the top and

page_text: sides either with silver, brass, copper, or other metal, and a piece of similar
metal with which it is bound projects over the cut open, and when the top is
put down will not admit of any instrument to force it open. It is strongly
fastened with screws of similar metal of which it is bound, and has two plates
in the front and back to admit strong leather straps to pass through to encompass
the whole, to keep it tight and compact, with a spring piece or slider over the
exterior key-hole of the lock to prevent it being injured by dirt, dust, or wet
with strong handles at each end for conveyance. The interior is divided into
seperate and distinct compartments impervious to wet, secured with silver,
brass, or other metal plates, with chisel tongues mortised in the front and ends
with a pair of sliding quadrants to keep the head erect when open, and is lined
with velvet, silk, linen, cotton, or leather, the upper compartment secured by
flaps and fastened with hinges and intricate-locks, latchets, or sliding flush
bolts; the whole forming a strong, light, handsome, and safe depository for the
security of property.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Handford, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this. Tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twelve.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Tenth day of November,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Handford came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all-and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.