A MACHINE FOR THE CUTTING OF FILES USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF IRON AND OTHER METALS
Year: 1752

page_text: LIGHTOLER'S SPECIFICATION..
TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
TIMOTHY LIGHTOLEB, of Warwick, in the County of Warwick, Carver, sendeth
greeting.
WHEREAS our Sovereign Lord King George the Second, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Ninth day of
April last past before the date hereof (reciting that the said Timothy Lightoler,
by his Petition, humbly represented to His said Majesty that he had by great
study, application, and expence, found out and invented "A MACHINE FOR THE
CUTTING OF FILES USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF IRON AND OTHER METALS,"
and in regard the said machine was intirely new, and of his own invention,
and would be for the service of the publick, humbly prayed His said Majesty
to grant him His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain for
securing to him the sole use and benefit thereof for fourteen years, according
to the Statute in that case made and provided), hath, of His special "grace,
certain knowledge, and meer motion, given and granted unto the said Timothy
Lightoler, his executors, administrators, and assigns, special licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Timothy Lightoler, his exors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and
their deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as he, the said
Timothy Lightoler, his exors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, & no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter, during the said'
term, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his said Inven-
tion of a Machine for the Cutting of Files used in Manufacturing of Iron and

page_text: other Metals within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to him, the said Timothy Lightoler, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or any of them, sould in their discretions seem meet; and
that he, the said Timothy Lightoler, his executors, administrators, & assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, comodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, & arising by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the said term; to hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages by the said
Letters Patent granted or mentioned to be granted to the said Timothy
Lightoler, his exors, adñiors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
iñiediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended; in and by which
said Letters Patent it is (amongst other provisoes & restrictions, provided
that if the said Timothy Lightoler should not particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same was and
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months next and imediately 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,
as in and by the said Letters Patent, inrolled in His Majesty's said High
Court of Chancery, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of the said proviso, and to the intent
that the said Invention may be universally known and be brought into general
use and practice from & after the expiration of the said term of fourteen
years, the said Timothy Lightoler doth hereby, under his hand and seal,
describe ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the
same was and is to be performed, in manner following (that is to say):-
The first movement of the said Machine for the Cutting of Files used in the
Manufacturing of Iron and other Metals, is by a band from a wheel which is
turned by water, by hand, or by a horse, which band has a communication
with a wheel with coggs or studds in it, which fall on the tail of a hammer
which is fixed on two centers, by which means a motion is given to a wheel
which lyes underneath, on whose axis a chain is fixed which is conveyed to
each end of a carriage on which a blank peice of steel, of which the file is to
be made, and which is called the mould of the file, is placed in order to be cut
by which means the carriage is drawn along under a chisel placed betwixt the

page_text: hammer's head and the mould of the file, and as the carriage moves along
the hammer keeps striking on the head. of the chissel and so produces the
cutts; when the carriage is gone so far as the mould of the file is cutt to the
end, it throws up a catch which stops the hammer, and the carriage returns to
the place from whence it first set out, in order that the workman may take
out the file and put in another mould.
In witness whereof, the said Timothy Lightoler hath hereunto sett his
hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of July, in the twenty-sixth
year of the reign, of our Sovereign. Lord George the Second, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and fifty-two.
TIMOTHY (L.B.) LIGHTOLER.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
the, within-named Timothy Lightoler
(being first duly stampt, in the pre-

page_text: the said Timothy Lightoler, on the day of the date thereof, in the presence of
this Deponent and one William Sellwood, who are subscribing witnesses to
such execution.