CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARD, NEEDLE, PIN, AND OTHER CASES, AND IN THE APPLICATION TO SUCH ARTICLES OF A NEW BRANCH OF ORNAMENTAL ART NOT HITHERTO APPLIED TO SUCH GOODS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Chatwin, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer of Pearl, Ivory, Tortoiseshell, and Leather
Card Cases, and other Ornamental Articles, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARD, NEEDLE, PIN, AND
OTHER CASES, AND IN THE APPLICATION TO SUCH ARTICLES OF A NEW BRANCH
OF ORNAMENTAL ART NOT HITHERTO APPLIED TO SUCH GOODS."
Sealed the 4th February 1862, and dated the 9th August 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Chatwin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
August 1861.
I, HENRY CHATWIN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer of Pearl, Ivory, Tortoiseshell, and Leather Card Cases, and other
Ornamental Articles, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARD, NEEDLE, PIN, AND OTHER
CASES, AND IN THE APPLICATION TO SUCH ARTICLES OF A NEW BRANCH OF ORNAMENTAL
ART NOT HITHERTO APPLIED TO SUCH GOODS," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
My improvements consist, first, in the making of such and like description
of articles, named in the title of wood, and finishing or covering them with
leather, embossed, gilded or otherwise ornamented, protected at the parting
or separation with a mounting of bone, ivory, metal, or other suitable material.
Secondly in the application thereto, as a further means of ornamentation, of
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page_text: photographic pictures. By which means cases so made will be found more
enduring and capable of resisting external pressure, and from the general
rigidity of construction photographic pictures on glass will be less liable to
injury than if such cases were made wholly of leather, or paper, or other
composition as heretofore produced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Chatwin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th February 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
CHATWIN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer of Pearl,
Ivory, Tortoiseshell, and Leather Card Cases, and other Ornamental Articles,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Chatwin, Her special license that I, the said Henry Chatwin,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Chatwin, 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 therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARD, NEEDLE, PIN, AND OTHER CASES, AND IN
THE APPLICATION TO SUCH ARTICLES OF A NEW BRANCH OF ORNAMENTAL ART NOT
HITHERTO APPLIED TO SUCH GOODS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Henry Chatwin, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Chatwin, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in an improved mode of manufacturing small fancy

page_text: cases, such as for holding address cards, spectacles, needles, pins, and other
like small fancy and useful articles. In giving effect to this Invention I
make the base or body of such articles of wood or material capable of being
worked in like manner, such as boards of paper mache. The advantage to be
derived from the use of such material in the making of such articles is greater
rigidity and strength with lightness, and as the making of such articles does
not involve the necessity of dies and apparatus for affording great pressure,
common and incidental to the forming and pressing of articles when made of
paper pulp, I am enabled to produce such cases greatly improved and more
durable than the ordinary cases, and the additional rigidity enables me with
increased advantage to prepare such cases for receiving photographic designs
on small panels of glass, such panels lying in a sunken recess or recesses
formed in the base before the application of the outer covering, which may
be of leather or other suitable material, embossed, gilded, printed; or otherwise
as desired. The way in which I proceed to give effect to my Invention is
to prepare from pine, deal, lime tree, or other suitable wood or material, as
before stated, the sides of such cases, and on the one side I secure the edges
and top and bottom parts with glue, the same being of a regular width
for allowing the internal capacity to be uniform and regular, and over this
I secure the other side, again using strong glue as being the best and most
convenient cement for uniting articles so composed. The case thus made
is shaped on the outside, either round, square, as otherwise as desired, by
means of a rasp, file, or other suitable means and appliances well known
to the workers or makers of such small goods. In this condition such
cases are cut open, and around the division I place a lip or facing of thin
bone, ivory, metal, or other suitable material, finishing this mounting around
the same shape as the internal and external form of the case, with the
exception that I allow the mounting, of whatever material it may be composed,
to project according to the thickness of the material I purpose covering
or applying to the outside of such cases. The parts thus prepared I unite
when required, with a suitable hinge joint at the back, and with a spring
snap in the front in the ordinary way. In this condition I next apply (if
so desired and arranged) the glass panel or panels containing the photo-
graphic picture, and thus treated the case is fit for receiving the leather
or other covering which is applied in the ordinary way in which such cases
are covered when made of any other material, such outer covering being
placed in close and regular proximity to the bone, ivory, or other material,
forming the lips or facings of the division, as also against the glass panel
And in this condition the leather
for the photographic picture or ornament.

page_text: or other material forming the covering I purpose gilding, embossing, or
otherwise ornamenting, or applying metallic fretwork, panels or plates, and
clips or studs either in combination with photographic pictures or not as may
be required.
In my Provisional Specification I have spoken of the application of photo-
graphic ornamentation to such articles as a novelty, but since the application
for this Patent, I have reasons to doubt the originality of this mode of
ornamenting such like articles, and therefore do not claim its application as a
substantive Invention.
Having now given a general description of my Invention, and the way in
which the same may be carried into effect, I wish it understood that I do
not purpose confining myself to the application of my improvements to the
articles herein-before named, as a variety of other such like cases may be
required to which my mode of manufacture is particularly applicable; but
what I claim and wish protected by these my in part recited Letters -Patent, is,
the making of such articles as herein-before described in combination with
the manner of treating or finishing such cases where they are separated, as it
forms a neat, enduring, and economic finish to that part of such articles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Chatwin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
WILLIAM FELTON,
Clerk to James S. Cockings,
Patent Agent,
Birmingham.
HENRY CHATWIN. (L.S.)