NEEDLES, BODKINS, FISH HOOKS, KNITTING PINS, NITTING NEEDLES, AND SAIL NEEDLES
Year: 1795

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BELL, of Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighth day of September instant, did give and grant unto me,
the said William Bell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence, that I, the said William Bell, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns,
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, "NEEDLES, BODKINS, FISH HOOKS, KNITTING PINS, NITTING NEEDLES, AND
SAIL NEEDLES;" in which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said William Bell, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one callendar month next and immediately 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 provisoe, I, the said
William Bell, do hereby declare that the method by which I make needles,
bodkins, fish hooks, knitting pins, nitting needles, and sail needles, is by casting
them with steel or common fucible iron, called pig or cast iron, into moulds or
flasks, made with fine sand or otherwise. I make stocks or moulds of iron, or
steel, or any other composition, capable of being made into moulds, on which

page_text: stocks or moulds I sink, eugrave, or stamp impressions of the said articles; into
those I pour my melted iron or steel (I prefer for my purpose sand casting),
and prepare my iron or steel as follows:-
I melt it in a pot or crucible, in small quantity's, about the weight of twelve
pounds (and upwards to twenty pounds), the more conveniently to divest it of its
heterogenious particles, and to purify it from its earthly or sulphurous qualities.
When the iron has attained a proper heat, I take charcoal dust mixed with
lime or common salt, which I throw into the pot of melted iron, and by
frequently stirring it with an iron röd, I bring to the surface of the iron a
scoria, which I frequently skim oll, and thus bring my iron into a refined state.
I then pour it into the mould, before described. The articles being thus formed
are capable of being softened, hardened or tempered in the usual way, by
which, needles, bodkins, fish hooks, knitting pins, nitting needles, and snil
needles, have heretofore been manufactured; therefore the principal merit of
my Invention is in casting them instead of making them in the usual way.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bell, havo hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.
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in Chancery Extraordinary.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of October, in
the year above written, the aforesaid William Bell came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form abov owritten. And
also the Specification aforesaid was staniped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provideil.
Inrolled the Sixth day of October, in the year above written.