MAKING AND CONSTRUCTING LOCKS FOR GUNS, PISTOLS, AND OTHER FIRE- ARMB
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JAMES COOK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gun Maker,
send greeting.
year
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Thirtieth day of May, in the fifth of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto
ine, the said James Cook, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilego and authority, that I, the said
James Cook, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said James Cook, my executors, administrators, and 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
His United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention
of "MAKING AND CONSTRUCTING LOCKS FOR GUNS, PISTOLS, AND OTHER FIRE-
ARMB;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said James Cook, by an instrument in writing under

page_text: iny 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 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 James 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 ascertained in the following explanation thereof (that is
to say):
My Invention consists of the introduction of a spiral spring or springs
into all kinds of gun, pistol, or other locks for fire-arms, either for
percussion or flint locks, so placed as to effect a blow causing the
ignition of percussion powder or common gun powder. The manner
in which the spiral spring has been hitherto used by me, is fully and
clearly shewn by the Drawing and explanation in the margin hereof to
which I refer as part of my Specification, but the same kind of spring
can be effectually applied to other gun and pistol locks, and will effect
the same purposes as the main springs heretofore generally employed in
gun and pistol locks as heretofore made. My method of manufacturing
my springs is, I take wire composed of steel, iron, brass, copper, or
any other kind of metal or metals, either round, oval, or square, or any
other form which I think the most proper, I wind or coil it round
a maudrel or triblet, any length I wish, and then cut off the springs to
any length required, and harden and temper them. The essential
advantage in these kind of springs is their flexibility on account of
their great length and strength combined, and they must be preferable
to all others wherever they can be introduced into any kind of machinery
whatever.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Cook. have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-
four.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Seventeenth day
of November, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid James Cook
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 such case made and
urovided
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year above
written.