INVENTION OR IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURING OF PICTURE FRAMES IN VARIOUS WAYS, FORMS, AND SIZES
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, BENJAMIN
AGER DAY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the ninth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Benjamin Ager Day, His especial licence, that I, the said Benjamin Ager.
Day, my exors, adññors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin
Agar Day, my exors, admors, or 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 OR
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURING OF PICTURE FRAMES IN VARIOUS WAYS, FORMS,
AND SIZES," in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said Benjamin Ager Day, 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 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
Benjamin Ager Day, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention
and improvement is described and ascertained by the following explanation
(that is to say)
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page_text: One part of my said Invention and improvement in the manufacture of
picture frames is for making them in various ways, forms, and sizes, of any
description of metal or compositions of metals, and for japanning, lackering,
or staining the same of various colours to imitate that description of picture
frames which have hitherto been made of japanned paper, and my present
method of making the said picture frames is by stamping them in one or more
parts in dies prepared for the purpose, and if they are stampt in more parts
than one, I solder or otherwise fasten the respective parts together to form and
complete the article. Another part of my Invention and improvement is
for making the ornamental squares, or those parts which receive the glass of
the said picture frames to represent Gothic or Grecian architecture, and I do
not confine myself to making a true square, but occasionally make such
squares with round or circular tops to the same; and be it further known that
another part of my Invention is an improvement on the japanned paper
picture frames by adding thereto the ornamental squares or frames to repre-
sent Gothic or Grecian architecture.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Ager Day, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Benjamin Ager Day, in the pre-
cance of
BENJ. AGER DAY. (L.8.)
LANE
ARKER,
Attorney-at-Law,
Birmingham.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1828, the aforesaid Benjamin Ager Day came before.
our said-Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything 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 Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand night hundred and twenty night