A METHOD OF JOINING AND COMBINING HORN AND TORTOISESHELL TOGETHER BY MEANS OF HEAT AND PRESSUFE, THEREBY CAUSING THE SAME TO ADHERE ONE TO THE OTHER IN SUCH MANNER AS TO HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF SOLID TORTOISESHELL, AND WITH ALL THE STRENGTH AND ELASTICITY
Year: 1817

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WINTER the younger, of the City of Bristol, Comb Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing
date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of March last, for Himself, His
heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Winter,
His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
John Winter, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said John Winter, my exors, aduñors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OF JOINING AND COMBINING
HORN AND TORTOISESHELL TOGETHER BY MEANS OF HEAT AND PRESSUFE, THEREBY
CAUSING THE SAME TO ADHERE ONE TO THE OTHER IN SUCH MANNER AS TO HAVE THE
APPEARANCE OF SOLID TORTOISESHELL, AND WITH ALL THE STRENGTH AND ELASTICITY

page_text: OF HORN, BY WHICH I, THE SAID JOHN WINTER, WOULD BE ENABLED TO MANUFAC-
TURE AND VEND THE SEVERAL ARTICLES OF HAIR COMBS, ORNAMENTAL AND OTHER
COMBS, AND SNUFF AND SMALL BOXES MADE OF THOSE MATERIALS AT A CHEAP RATE,
AND RESEMBLING AND HAVING THE APPEARANCE AND BEAUTY OF REAL SOLID
TORTOISESHELL;" in which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said John Winter, 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 inrolled 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, reference being thereto had, will more fully
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Winter, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows (that is
to say):
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"I first prepare the horn by making it flat in the usual process of pressing
practised by horn prossers; I then select such horn as is perfectly clear and
transparent, and work it into the shape of the articles I want to manufac-
"ture, making groves in the horn of the size, thickness, and shape of the
"tortoiseshell I intend to inlay on the horn. I then work a piece of tortoise-
"shell to the size of the whole, or that part of the horn so shaped or fashioned
"which I intend to cover with tortoiseshell, and having prepared boiling
"water sufficient to cover the articles I intend to make, I put into the water
"a handfull of salt, and about a quarter of a pint of oil or grease. I then put
"the horn and tortoiseshell so shaped or fashioned into the water and boil
"it till it is perfectly soft; I then clean it from the oil or grease, and apply
"the tortoiseshell to the groves which are prepared on the horn, and, after
warming the whole, press the horn and tortoiseshell together between
moulds, which are made to the size or shape of the articles wanted, letting
"the horn and tortoiseshell remain in the moulds till it becomes perfectly cold,
"after which I finish it in the usual way in which horn and tortoiseshell are
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"manufactured."
In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal, the Six-
teenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventeen.
JOHN WINTER, Jun'. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord 1817, the aforesaid John Winter the younger 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 Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventeen.