PLATED POKERS, TONGS, AND SHOVELS (COMMONLY CALLED FIRE IRONS), AND FENDERS, OF ALL PATTERNS ;
Year: 1791

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BEESLEY, of the Parish of Saint Giles in the Fields, in the County of Mid-
lesex, Silver Plate and Coach Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said James Beesley, did, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
after much labor, study, and expence, I had invented "PLATED POKERS, TONGS,
AND SHOVELS (COMMONLY CALLED FIRE IRONS), AND FENDERS, OF ALL PATTERNS ;" and
that in regard I was the first and true Inventor thereof, and that the same
had not been made by any other person or persons, to my knowledge or belief,
I therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty, that He would be graciously
pleased to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole use and
benefit of my said Invention, within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute
in that case made and provided; and His 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 His said Majesty
did therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Third day of March, in the thirty-first year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Beesley, iny executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and

page_text: authority, that 1, the said James Beesley, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said James
Beesley, 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 expressed, should and lawfully might make, usc, exercise,
and vend ny said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdoin
of Great Kingdom called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said James Beesloy, my
exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions
seem meet; and that I, the said James Beesley, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to timo coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein-before grauted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said James Beesley, 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 Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided.
In which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if 1, the said James
Beesley, 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 late of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly censo, determine, and become void, anything therein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by
the said Letters Patent, reference being therounto had, may more fully and at
largo appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Beesley, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the samo is to be performed in manner following, that is
to say:-
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The usual fire utensils called fire shovels, pokurs, tongs, and fenders, being
commonly made of iron and steel, which require much trouble in cleaning; in
order to lessen this trouble, I plate those utensils with silver, either with hard
or soft solder. The method of plating with hard solder (which will last longer
than the soft) is, by fixing on the iron or steel a body of silver according to the

page_text: pattern, and binding it on with wire and so much silver solder, according to the
size. It is heated in charcoal fire until it becomes red hot for the solder to
melt, and that becomes fast to the iron or steel. The method of plating with
soft solder is, by fixing the silver on the iron, steel, copper, brass, or on a
composition of other metals, and afterwards tinning the same; but as tin does
not require much heat, instead of heating it red hot, I just melt the tin. It is
soldered with the same by applying rosin to it when it is hot. I plate tho
shovels, tongs, or pokers made of copper, brass, or composition, with soft solder
and iron, and steel ones with either hard or soft solder. I make the fenders of
silver, plated copper, brass, or composition of metals, by piercing them to any
pattern of a stove, and putting on mouldings made of iron, steel, copper, brass,
or composition to keep it in its right form, and rivetting or soldering the same
to the fender; and putting a fixture on the inside of the fender makes it
compleat.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Beesley, have hereunto set my hand
seal, this Second day of April, in the thirty-first year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third, 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
ninety-one
stamped) in the presence of
BD KIRKHAM, Symonds Inn.
Tuo. BAINBRIDGE, Rolls Chapel.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of April, in the
thirty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
James Beesley came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in the sixth year
of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and
so forth, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the reign of His
present Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the said Second day of April, in the year above written.