A NEW METHOD OF PERFORMING THAT KIND OF WORK COMONLY CALLED CHASING, FOR THE WORKING IN GOLD, SILVER, BRASS, TIN, AND OTHER METALS OF VARIOUS THINGS, PARTICULARLY COFFIN FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS FOR COACHES, CHARIOTS, SEDANS, AND OTHER CARRIAGES, FOR CABINET WORK AND OTHER DOMESTICK FURNITURE, AND OTHER ARTICLES, BY A MACHINE CONSISTING OF AN OBLONG SQUARE FRAME WITH TWO RODS, IN WHICH A MOVING FORCER IS WORKED UPON A STRIKING BLOCK, WITH A DIE FIXED THEREON FORMED FOR EACH RESPECTIVE PURPOSE, WHEREBY THE WORK IS EXECUTED IN A MUCH MORE EXPE- DITIOUS MANNER, AND FAR SUPERIOR IN BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE TO ANYTHING OF THE KIND (NOT BEING ACTUAL CHASING) EVER YET PERFORMED BY ANY OTHER MEANS
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PICKERING, of London, Gilt Toy Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Seventh day of March, in the ninth year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said John Pickering, His especial licence that I, the said
John Pickering, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and also within all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF PERFORMING THAT KIND OF WORK
COMONLY CALLED CHASING, FOR THE WORKING IN GOLD, SILVER, BRASS, TIN, AND
OTHER METALS OF VARIOUS THINGS, PARTICULARLY COFFIN FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS
FOR COACHES, CHARIOTS, SEDANS, AND OTHER CARRIAGES, FOR CABINET WORK AND
OTHER DOMESTICK FURNITURE, AND OTHER ARTICLES, BY A MACHINE CONSISTING
OF AN OBLONG SQUARE FRAME WITH TWO RODS, IN WHICH A MOVING FORCER IS
WORKED UPON A STRIKING BLOCK, WITH A DIE FIXED THEREON FORMED FOR EACH
RESPECTIVE PURPOSE, WHEREBY THE WORK IS EXECUTED IN A MUCH MORE EXPE-
DITIOUS MANNER, AND FAR SUPERIOR IN BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE TO ANYTHING
OF THE KIND (NOT BEING ACTUAL CHASING) EVER YET PERFORMED BY ANY OTHER
MEANS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging
me, the said John Pickering, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as

page_text: in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
John Pickering, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a New Method
of performing that kind of Work commonly called Chasing, for Working in
Gold, Silver, Brass, Tin, and other Metals of various Things, particularly Coffin
Furniture, Ornaments for Coaches, Chariots, Sedans, and other Carriages,
for Cabinet Work and other Domestick Furniture, and other Articles, by a
Machine consisting of an Oblong Square Frame with two Rods, in which a
Moving Forcer is worked upon a Striking Block, with a Die fixed thereon
formed for each respective Purpose, is described in the manner following (that
is to say) :-
The various kinds of work are performed by different machines, each
respectively adapted to the dimensions of the piece in hand, but being of the
same kind and consisting of an oblong square frame with two rods, in which
an iron moving forcer, or weight, or hammer, faced with a softer metal the
better to assist the impression, is worked by the assistance of three wheels
upon a striking block, with a die fixed thereon formed for each respective
purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Pickering, have hereunto set my ?