IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORNICES, MOULDINGS, AND WINDOW SASHES
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
CUERTON, Junior, of Percy Street, in the County of Middlesex, Brassfounder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-second day of February, in the third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Cuerton, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and autho-
rity, that I, the said Richard Cuerton, my exors, admors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Cuerton, my exors, admors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times 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, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF CORNICES, MOULDINGS, AND WINDOW SASHES;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that I, the said Richard Cuerton, shall cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Cuerton, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereunto annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):-
My Invention relates to a mode of shaping and affixing sheet metal on the
surfaces of cornices and window sashes, and thus covering the mouldings
thereof by means of dies and pressure, whereby the front surfaces of such
cornices, mouldings, and window sashes have all the character of metal
without the weight thereof, and in order to give the best information in my
power, I will proceed to describe the apparatus and machinery used by me,
the dies varying according to the figure. The mouldings of wood of the
figure desired are to be first formed by suitable planes, and short metal, such
as brass or zinc, or other suitable metal, is then to be cut to the proper size,
and drawn through the matrice or die, Figure 1, which is done to form the
sheet metal into the proper shape for the reception of the wood. After
placing the wood into the sheet metal, as above prepared, I remove the interior
die A, and fix the top piece C in its place, and pass the wood and sheet metal
together through the die thus formed for the purpose of turning down and
forcing the sides of the sheet metal into wood; and whatever be the pattern
to be produced, the operations to be performed are the same as those above
described, the only difference being in the shape of the dies used and the tools
employed for sinking the sheet metal to the figure of the wood cornices,
mouldings, or window sashes.
The nature of the required dies and tools will readily be understood by de-
scribing the mode of making the patterns of mouldings shewn in the Drawing.
The sheet metal, and then the wood and metal together, are drawn through the
matrice or die or draw plate means of a draw bench, or other similar
means, as is well understood, the interior of the opening of the draw plate or
die being of the figure of the exterior finished moulding, as D, Figure 1 ;
Figure 2 being a small circular cornice or moulding, it is not necessary to
shape the sheet metal for the reception of the wood, but both may be drawn
through the die together, the sunk angles on each side turning down and
forcing the sides of the sheet metal into the wood. Figure 3 shews suitable
dies for sinking a sheet of metal for a moulding, such as is shewn at D.
Figure 4 shows a die or tool for sharpening the angles of such patterns as
require it, and which cannot be so well accomplished with draw plates alone.
In using this tool the sunk plates are drawn between the rollers A and B, the

page_text: roller A pressing one of the angles at a time into the angular groove in the
roller B, and by such means those angles which require sharpening are
successively treated. Figure 5 is the frame for the dies.
Having thus explained the nature of my Invention, I would remark that'
the workman in forming dies or draw plates for sinking other patterns will
readily do so by first understanding those shown, and it should be stated that
my Invention does not relate to sinking sheets of metal, but to the mode of
employing such sheets, when sunk, by fixing them on wood or other suitable
mouldings by dies and pressure, and turning over the edges as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Cuerton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty.
RICHARD (L.S.) CUERTON, JUR.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1840, the aforesaid Richard Cuerton came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty.