DISCOVERY OF AN ENTIRE NEW METHOD OF BENDING STEEL WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF HEAT, WHICH MAY BE APPLIED TO THE MANUFACTURING OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, AND TO A VARIETY OF OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES WHERE BENT STEEL AND STEEL SPRINGS ARE NECES- SARY
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH-
Edd, of Great Windmill Street, in the Parish of Saint James, in the City of
Westminster, Gun Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of August, in the fortieth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Egg, His especial licence
that I, the said Joseph Egg, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "DISCOVERY OF AN ENTIRE NEW
METHOD OF BENDING STEEL WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF HEAT, WHICH MAY BE
APPLIED TO THE MANUFACTURING OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, AND TO A VARIETY
OF OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES WHERE BENT STEEL AND STEEL SPRINGS ARE NECES-
SARY;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Joseph Egg, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said discovery,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provis, I, the said
Joseph Egg, do hereby declare that my said Discovery of an entire New
Method of Bending Steel without the Assistance of Heat, which may be
applied to the Manufacturing of Surgical Instruments, and to a Variety of

page_text: other Useful Purposes where Bent Steel and Steel Springs are necessary, is
described in manner following, that is to say:-
Take a piece of strait steel, tempered similar to a spring sword blade;
and place one end against the body, and take the other end in the hand,
bending it at the same time over a circular peice of steel or iron, (such as is
commonly known by the name of a big iron) moving it backwards and forwards
as may be necessary to vary the blow, which should be struck in a parallel
direction with the center of the circular steel or iron (over which the spring
steel is bent), by an instrument similar to a hammer, but instead of a round
face or blunt edge, it must be like a chissel, so as to make a cut or impression
at every blow, which by continuing to bend the steel spring, and cutting it at
every blow with the said instrument, the spring may be made to a form proper
for a rupture truss, or any other similar shape that may be required.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Egg, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Nineteenth day of Septem-
ber, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Joseph Egg came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 that case made and provided..
Inrolled the same Nineteenth day of September, in the year above
written.