WHEREBY THE OBJECTIONS GENE- RALLY MADE TO PLATED WARES MANUFACTURED ON COPPER OR OTHER METALS ARE AVOIDED BY COVEREING THE MITRES, ANGLES, OR JOINTS WITH STRONGER PLATED METAL OR SOLID SILVER, AS THE NATURE OF THE WARES MAY REQUIRE, AND WHICH INVENTION IS LIKEWISE APPLICABLE TO WARES MADE ROUND, OVAL, &C.
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, VALENTINE
RAWLE, of Cursitor Street, in the Parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Sixteenth day of April, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Valentine Rawle, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I,.
the said Valentine Rawle, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself or themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Valentine Rawle, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times hereafter during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention "WHEREBY THE OBJECTIONS GENE-
RALLY MADE TO PLATED WARES MANUFACTURED ON COPPER OR OTHER METALS ARE
AVOIDED BY COVEREING THE MITRES, ANGLES, OR JOINTS WITH STRONGER PLATED
METAL OR SOLID SILVER, AS THE NATURE OF THE WARES MAY REQUIRE, AND WHICH
INVENTION IS LIKEWISE APPLICABLE TO WARES MADE ROUND, OVAL, &C.," in such
manner as to me, the said Valentine Rawle, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, or any of them, should in my or their directions seem meet, and that
I, the said Valentine Rawle, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should

page_text: and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time 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 granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Valentine
Rawle, 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 that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Valentine Rawle, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, 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, as 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 proviso, I, the said
Valentine Rawle; do hereby declare that the said Invention consists and is
performed in manner following; viz
The nature or manner of covering or applying the joints or acute angles,
called by the makers the mitres or arras of candlesticks, and other articles,
with silver or stronger plated metal, so as to avoid shewing the copper in those
parts, which, according to the common method, they do before the other parts
are wore; and in the common method of making square candlesticks are never
covered by the maker, from the difficulty in making the mitre or joint of so
long and irregular a form as a candlestick is, which is obviated as follows:-
When the candlestick (or other article) is tied together, or brought to form a
piece of plain silver or strong plated metal; it must be stamped in a die or drawn
in a swage tool, to give it the form required. In the same method other swages
are raised, which is so well known by the manufacturers as not to need an
explanation; which swage must then be overlaid or inserted in the joint, so as
to compleatly cover it, which takes of the friction from those acute angles to
which they were before exposed to in cleaning; and from the thinness of the
edge of the swage, it is sure to lay close to the part, and forms an additional
strength to the article, not only as to shew, but by holding the joints together,
which before, if only a square bent, and not soldered, was considerably
weaker than the other parts, but a soldered joint was still weaker; this swage,
being a separate piece applied to it, gives another thickness to the part, by
which its strength and durability in every respect are improved. This swage,

page_text: after on, may be engraved or chased, if required, tho' better plain, on account
of cleaning, and may be hard or soft solder'd, after the manner of other works.
This is the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which I perform
the same.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fourteenth
day of May, in the twenty-fifth 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 eighty-five.
V. RAWLE. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of May, in
the year above mentioned, the said Valentine Rawle came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
mentioned. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of Their Majesties
King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of May, in the year above written.