A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFActure of GRATES, FENDERS, AND FIRE-IRON RESTS
Year: 1823

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
SPRIGG the elder, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Fender Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of September 1823, in the Fourth
year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said James Sprigg, my exors,
admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said James Sprigg, my exors, adiiors, and assigns, during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFActure of
GRATES, FENDERS, AND FIRE-IRON RESTS;" in which said Letters. Patent there
is contained a proviso that if I, the said James Sprigg, 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, will more
fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Sprigg, 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 and by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
My said improvement in the manufacture of grates, fenders, and fire-iron
rests consists in the application of the process commonly known by the name
of close plating to the grates, fenders, and fire-iron rests themselves, as well
as to the other parts added to them, whether for use or ornament, such as the
beads or mouldings, the concaves or convexes, the pateras, the cables, rolls,
or other stripes used in the manufacture of register and other stoves and
fire grates, as also for dogs, hearths, and other grates for burning wood or any
other fuel, or whether heated by any other artificial means, likewise to the
feet, paws, claws, or balls used to support fenders of whatever description of
form or pattern, as also to the fire-iron rests themselves, and to their various
decorations, and which said close plating I perform with rolled silver, soldered
upon iron or steel (previously tinned) by means of an alloy of tin with lead,
or other fit and proper metal, to make it flow the better when in fusion, to
produce a more perfect adhesion of the iron or steel to the silver.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Sprigg, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
HUNT, Extra.
JAMES (L.S.) SPRIGG Sen*.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1823, the aforesaid James Sprigg the elder 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 Eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.