AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VARIOUS USEFUL ARTICLES FROM A METAL NOT HITHERTO USED FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN'
Сooк, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder,. send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirteenth day of April, in the second year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Benjamin Cook, His especial licence that I, the said Benjamin Cook, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin Cook,
my exors, adiñors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times 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 "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VARIOUS USEFUL ARTICLES FROM A METAL NOT
HITHERTO USED FOR THAT PURPOSE;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Benjamin Cook, 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 Chan
cery 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
Benjamin Cook, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascer-
tained as follows (that is to say) :-

page_text: My said Invention consists in manufacturing the various articles and things
particularly mentioned and set forth in the Schedule hereunder written from
and out of a certain metal commonly called or known by the name of zinc.
The zinc is rolled in the ordinary and usual way of rolling zinc into sheets of
such sizes and thicknesses as are requisite for the making of the various
articles and things above mentioned and set forth; and when the said zinc is so
rolled into sheets, as aforesaid, I manufacture and work the same into various
articles and things above mentioned and set forth by the common and ordinary
means of working other metals into the same articles, with the exception that
I find that the said zinc, when so rolled into sheets as aforesaid, works better,
and produces better articles, by being warmed to a temperature of or little
above summer heat, at which temperature I work the same, but the same will
work cold, or at any temperature under or above summer heat, provided it
be not made of a temperature sufficient to fuse it.
And my said Invention also consists in weaving and manufacturing zinc wire
into wire gauze, which I perform in the usual and ordinary way of weaving
wire, and which wire gauze is applicable to all purposes for which gauze
made of other wire has hitherto been used.
THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.
Desert spoons.
Teaspoons. Table spoons.
Salt spoons. Gravy spoons. Butter ladles.
Table forks. Desert forks, and
Fish knives of every description.
racks. Cruet and other frames.
Mustard spoons. Egg spoons.
Soup ladles.
Punch ladles.
forks of every description. Butter knives.
Skewers of all sizes, Sugar tongs. Toast
Bottle stands. Coffee and teapots of all
sorts. Trays and waiters. Dish covers. Spurs. Chamber, table, and other
candlesticks. Inkstands. Shaving boxes. Buttons. Curtain and other
rings. Drinking cups, and measures of every sort. Wire gauze of all sizes.
Nails. Door knobs, and other knobs for furniture. Lamps and lanthorns.
Powder flasks. Plates, dishes, and covers of all descriptions. Military orna-
ments, fenders, and chimney pieces. Coffin furniture. Pencil cases. Per-
cussion caps. Polished tubing of all diameters. Umbrella furniture.
Nutcracks. Beadings and mouldings of all sorts. Cases for locks. Orna-
ments for furniture of all descriptions. Pins. Hooks and eyes. Coach and
harness furniture. Thimbles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Cook, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
BENJAMIN (L.S.) COOK.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1882, the aforesaid Benjamin Cook 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 written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
Inrolled the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.