A NEW METHOD OF MAKING THIMBLES
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN PIERCY,
of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Tortoise-shell Toy Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of November,
and in the fifty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
John Piercy, my exors, adññors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that he, the said John Piercy, my exors, admors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein men-
tioned, 'make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF MAKING
THIMBLES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if
I, the said John Piercy, 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 under my hand and seal, and 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 Letters Patent, that then the
said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Piercy, do declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained
as follows (that is to say):
My said Invention is to make thimbles, and in order so to do, my first
method is to take tortoise-shell, turtle-shell, horn, or leather, and from either
of these substances (after they have been prepared by those processes well
known) I form in moulds or dies, or on manndrels, by the use of a press heated
by fire, or put into boiling water, or in any way most convenient to me, a whole
and complete thimble.
My second method is:-I form or make of tortoise-shell, turtle-shell, horn,
or leather part of a thimble, the other part or bottom thereof being made of
iron, steel, silver, gold, metal, or mixture of metals. This part, of which I
call the bottom of the thimble, is that part indented, which prevents the needle
when pressed by the finger in the action of sewing from slipping off. This
bottom part I attach or combine with the aforesaid tortoise-shell, turtle-shell,
horn, or leather by the use of the aforesaid press, heated by fire or boiling
water, so that these thimbles when made are part metal or metals, and the
other part tortoise-shell, turtle-shell, horn, or leather.
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My third method is as follows:-I make an outside coat or case of tortoise-
shell, turtle-shell, horn, or leather, which I attach to gold, silver, metal, or
mixture of metals to form a thimble, so that the inside of the thimble is
composed of metals or mixture of metals, and the outside coat or case of
tortoise-shell, turtle-shell, horn, or leather.
My fourth method is as follows:-I make the inside of the thimble of:
tortoise-shell, turtle-shell, horn, or leather, and the outside coat or case of gold,
silver, metal, or mixture of metals.
My fifth method is as follows:-I make the inside of the thimble of ivory,
bone, horn, wood, or leather, and the outside coat or case of tortoise-shell or
turtle-shell. Now, if I make thimbles by either or all of these methods, I
either attach to each thimble a bottom of iron, steel, metal, or mixture of
metals, if I find it convenient to do so; and also if I chose I ornament all or
part of my said thimbles so made with gold, silver, metal, or otherwise; or
.aflix rims to them of such metal or metals, or make them withot any rims
of those above-named metals, as I find most convenient.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Piercy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
JOHN (L.s.) PIERCY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1816, the aforesaid John Piercy 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 stampt according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixteen.