A NOVEL KIND OF NAIL OR TACK FOR UPHOLSTERY AND CABINET WORK
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedge
and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agents, for the Invention of "A NOVEL KIND OF NAIL OR
TACK FOR UPHOLSTERY AND CABINET WORK."-A communication from
abroad by Louis Gabriel Ragueneau, of 39, Faubourg St. Martin,
Paris, France.
Sealed the 21st April 1868, and dated the 24th October 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th October 1867.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NOVEL
KIND OF NAIL OR TACK FOR UPHOLSTERY AND CABINET WORK," a communication
to me from abroad by Louis Gabriel Ragueneau, of 39, Faubourg St. Martin,
Paris, France, to be as follows :—
The object of this Invention is the manufacture of an ornamental and
inoxydizable nail or tack, to be used in covering chairs and couches with silk,
velvet, or other material, in fixing the hangings of apartments, and in
upholstery and cabinet work generally.

page_text: This improved nail or tack is made of brass or of copper, and by casting, so
that any desired ornamentation may be moulded on its head, which may then
bc gilt, silvered, or burnished, as may be preferred.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd April 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said William
Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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 "A NOVEL KIND OF NAIL OR TACK FOR UPHOLSTERY AND CABINET
WORK," a communication to me from abroad by Louis Gabriel Ragueneau,
of 39, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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 William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The object of this Invention is the manufacture of an ornamental and
inoxydizable nail or tack, to be used in covering chairs and couches with silk,

page_text: velvet, or other material, in fixing the hangings of apartments, and in
upholstery and cabinet work generally..
This improved nail or tack is made of brass or of copper, and by casting, so
that any desired ornamentation may be moulded on its head, which may then
be gilt, silvered, or burnished, as may be preferred.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)