IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TABLETS AND DIAL PLATES, APPLICABLE TO SHEWING THE DISTANCES OF CARRIAGES TRAVELLING, BAROMETERS, COMPASES, AND TIMEPIECES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Smeeton, of Limehouse, in the County
of Middlesex, Export Outfitter, &c., for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TABLETS AND DIAL PLATES,
APPLICABLE TO SHEWING THE DISTANCES OF CARRIAGES TRAVELLING,
BAROMETERS, COMPASES, AND TIMEPIECES."
Sealed the 1st February 1854, and dated the 1st August 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Smeeton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 1st August 1853.
I, JOHN SMEETON, of Limehouse, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF TABLETS AND DIAL PLATES, APPLICABLE TO SHEWING
THE DISTANCES OF CARRIAGES TRAVELLING, BAROMETERS, COMPASSES, AND
TIMEPIECES," to be as follows:-
First, by forming a blank or ring of metal the required shape; then
by drawing the same through a set of steel or metal tools known as
drawing through tools; this process forms a curve or rim on the
edge.

page_text: Secondly, by placing a printed satin, parchment, paper, or any clastic
fabric over the metal plate; a die and press is then applied to the
same, and both become united.
Thirdly, cylet holes of metal, ivory, pearl, or bone are then inserted
to admit of the centre pinion for the hands to work upon, and to 5
receive the key for winding; this having been done completes the
tablet and dial plate for which I claim the Invention.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Smeeton in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 1st February 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN
SMEETON, of Limehouse, in the County of Middlesex, Export Out-
fitter, &c., send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Smeeton, Der special licence
that I, the said John Smecton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Smeeton, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TABLETS AND DIAL PLATES, APPLICABLE TO SHEWING
THE DISTANCES OF CARRIAGES TRAVELLING, BAROMETERS, COMPASSES, AND
TIMEPIECES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Smeeton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Smeeton, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:
First, by forming a blank or ring of metal the required shape; then
by drawing the same through a set of steel or any metal tools known
as drawing through tools; this process forms a curve or rim on the
edge.
Secondly, by placing a printed satin, parchment, paper, or any elastic
fabric over the metal plate; a die and press is then applied to the
same, and both become united.
Thirdly, eylet holes of metal, ivory, pearl, or bone are then inserted
to admit of the centro pinion for the hands to work upon, and to receive
the key for winding; this having been done completes the tablet and
dial plate for which I claim the Invention.
I have said in the title of my Patent that dial plates made on this
principle are applicable to the purposes therein specified, although I do
not claim for the application to any particular purpose; but I claim the
mode of manufacturing tablets and dial plates by uniting a metali cup
or frame with printed, painted, or embossed centres of silk, satin, paper,
parchment, leather, or geledine by the use or aid of steel tools, dies, and
presses, which are described in my Specification above; the eylet holes
may be dispenced with, when required, and simply holes perforated
through the plate to admit of the pinion, or for the purpose of winding
or for securing the dial plates or tablets to any purpose required.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Smeeton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
JOHN SMEETON. (L.S.)