THE ROLLING OF IRON INTO BARS USED FOR MAKING OR MANUFACTURING TIN PLATES
Year: 1822

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DANIELL, of Abercarne, in the County of Monmouth, Manufacturer of Iron,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of April,
in the third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said William
Daniell, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial license, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said William Daniell, my exors, admors, 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 in "THE ROLLING OF IRON INTO BARS
USED FOR MAKING OR MANUFACTURING TIN PLATES;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said William Daniell,
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

page_text: under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calender months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages thereby 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
William Daniell, 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 the following description thereof, that is to say:-
My said Invention consists of an improvement in the mode of rolling iron
to be used for tin plates, and consists in rolling the iron (to be used for tin
plates) perpendicularly between a pair of rolls with groves of different
gradations, the iron being previously cut with a pair of shears or any other
instrument into pieces of four inches and half an inch square, more or less
(but I generally prefer that size), the first grove in the rolls being so cut or
formed as to admit each of the pieces of iron (singly) to pass through perpen-
dicularly, and the successive groves in the rolls being such that the pieces of
iron may come out of the last grove reduced to a proper thickness for the
future stage of the manufacture of iron for tin plates. By the means of rolling
the iron perpendicularly in the manner which I have described, the inside of
the piece of iron is brought to the surface, and the imperfection it contains,
instead of being dispersed and intermixed throughout, is forced to the edge
and ends; the quality of the iron for tin plates is thereby much improved,
and the number of tin plate wasters are thereby reduced.
However I may have described dimensions, forms, and sizes in my above
Specification, yet I do not confine myself or my Patent either to dimensions,
forms, or sizes, where they are, from the nature of the subject-matter, variable
consistently with the principle and plan of the operation of perpendicular
rolling which I have above pointed out.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Daniell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the third year of the
reign of His said most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.
WILLIAM (L.S.) DANIELL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of May, in
the year of our Lord 1822, the aforesaid William Daniell came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowleged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.