A METHOD OF ROLLING MOULDS OR PLATES FOR TROWELS FROM PIECES OF EITHER BLISTER, SHEER, OR CAST STEEL, OF A SQUARE OR NEARLY SQUARE OR OBLONG FORM
Year: 1808

page_text: HUNTS SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HUNT, of the Brades, in the Parish of Rowley Regis, in the County of
Stafford, Iron Master, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said William Hunt, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third that I had,
after much trouble, labor, and expence, found out and invented "A METHOD OF
ROLLING MOULDS OR PLATES FOR TROWELS FROM PIECES OF EITHER BLISTER, SHEER,
OR CAST STEEL, OF A SQUARE OR NEARLY SQUARE OR OBLONG FORM;" that I, the
said William Hunt, was the first and true Inventor thereof, and that the same
had never been made or used by any other person or persons, to the best of my
knowledge and belief; I did therefore most humbly pray His Majesty that He
would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the sole use, benefit, and
advantage of my said Invention within that part of His Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of

page_text: Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years,
according to the Statute in that case made and provided; IIis said Majesty,
being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be
for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and
therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the
Tenth day of May, in the forty-eighth year of His reign, of His especial grace,
certain knowledge, and mere motion, for Himself, Elis heirs and successors,
did give and grant unto me, the said William Hunt, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Hunt, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, by ourselves, or by our deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said William Hunt, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein and herein-after
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said
Invention within that part of Ilis Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said William Hunt, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet,
and that I, the said William Hunt, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein and
herein-after mentioned, to have, bold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence,
powers, privileges, and advantages, therein-before granted or mentioned to be
granted unto me, the said William Hunt, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from
the date of the said Letters l'atent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to
be complete and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and pro-
vided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said
William Hunt, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the
said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-

page_text: before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in
and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, more fully and
at large appears.
NOW KNOW YE, that in obedience to the said Letters Patent, and the
proviso therein contained, I, the said William Hunt, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of my aforesaid Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, in manner following (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in substituting square or nearly square or oblong
pieces of steel in lieu of moulds, either cast or formed in the usual way, for
rolling into trowel plates, by which a considerable expence is saved, and a
much better article made. Having obtained such piece or pieces of steel, of
the form or forms above described, either by cutting or otherwise, from blister,
sheer, or cast steel, either before or after being hammered or rolled; and what
I would recommend, and for the most part make use of myself, are pieces of
sheer or cast steel, the dimensions of which for common or ordinary-sized
bricklayers' and masons' trowels are of from three inches to three inches and
an half square, or nearly square, and from three eighths of an inch to half an
inch thick. But these sizes I vary, or vary from them, according to the
different sized trowels I intend to make, viz', much less than those dimensions
will be sufficient for pointing, guaging, putty, and garden trowels, and larger
pieces will be required for the largest bricklayers' and masons' trowels. And
having made choice of such piece or pieces of steel, suitable for the trowel or
trowels I intend to make, and after the same is or are heated, I pass it or
them diagonally through a pair of plain rolls, or such part or parts of a pair of
indented rolls as are plain, till I have obtained the width or widths of the
trowel or trowels wanted (once or twice is usually sufficient for that purpose).
I then pass such piece or pieces of steel transversely through a pair of indented
rolls in order to obtain the swell or swells which is to form the tang or tangs,
and likewise at the same time to obtain the length or lengths of the trowel or
trowels wanted, which are then cut into form and finished in the usual way.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Hunt, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixth day of June, in the forty-eighth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and in the year of our One thousand eight hundred and eight.
WILLIAM (L.S.) HUNT.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixth day of June, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Hunt came before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, 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.
MIT I