IMPROVEMENTS IN SILVER WATCH CASES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Williamson, the younger, of Coventry, in the
County of Warwick, Engine Turner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN SILVER WATCH CASES."
Sealed the 26th April 1861, and dated the 2nd November 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Williamson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd November 1860.
I, HENRY WILLIAMSON, the younger, of Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, Engine Turner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SILVER WATCH CASES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the combination of gold and silver in the manu-
facture of silver watch cases, and consists in inlaying and making parts
thereof of gold; these inlaid and other parts of gold I form of ornamental
design, and which may be flush, sunk, or raised above the other surfaces of
silver, and engine-turned, engraved, and otherwise ornamented as may be
required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Williamson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st May 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
WILLIAMSON, the younger, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Engine
Turner, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred-and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Williamson, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Williamson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Williamson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IN-
PROVEMENTS IN SILVER WATCH CASES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Henry Williamson, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Williamson, 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 relates to the combination of gold and silver in the manu-
facture of silver watch cases, and consists in inlaying and making parts
thereof of gold; these inlaid and other parts of gold I form of ornamental
design, and which may be flush, sunk, or raised above the other surfaces of
silver, and engine-turned, engraved, or otherwise ornamented as may be
required.
In carrying out my Invention I either engrave or otherwise sink one or
more recesses in the watch case, such recess or recesses being more or less
ornamental in their outline, and so as to represent flowers, birds, an escutcheon,
or garter, or other suitable devices or designs; having made such concave
designs in the silver watch case, I form like designs of gold to fit into such
recesses, so as either to fill them up flush with the surface of the watch case
or they may be sunk a little below or raised above the surface. In order to
fix these ornamental pieces of gold in the case, I solder them in with hard
solder in same manner as adopted for soldering other parts of the case,
although soft soldering will answer the purpose if the case is not afterwards

page_text: subjected to any heat that will melt such soldering. These designs or devices
in gold may be engine-turned as other parts of the case, although I prefer to
engrave them so as further to carry out and improve the design formed by the
outline, which in itself, in many instances, would not be sufficiently orna-
mental, for instance, the outline of a flower or bird may be represented by the
inlaid piece, and the flower or bird completed by engraving on the surface of
the gold so inlaid, such ornamentation, by engraving, being well understood, it
will be unnecessary to describe. Instead of positively inlaying the gold the
recesses might be cut through the cases, and the devices in gold inserted from
the back, and if necessary backed up with a plate on the inside; or, further,
the design in gold may be soldered to the exterior of the case, so as to appear
in relief and be further ornamented by engraving or otherwise.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing
the I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, inlaying or combining gold
with silver watch cases for the purposes of ornamentation, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Williamson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
HENRY WILLIAMSON, JR. (L.S.)