CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF COFFIN FURNITURE."
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Kendrick, of Balsall Heath, in the
:
County of Worcester, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF COFFIN FURNITURE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Kendrick at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 11th May 1874.
I, THOMAS KENDRICK, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester,-
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF COFFIN FURNITURE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the ornamentation of coffin furniture in the
manner as follows:-I take the ordinary tin, and by means of tools or
dies cut out or raise any design, form, or pattern (chiefly in outline). I
then take any suitable device, design, or pattern printed upon prepared
paper, and by a process well known as 'transferring," viz., laying the
said paper with the design towards the tin and moistening the back.
The paper is then removed, leaving the impression or device upon the
tin, and in this manner designs of the most varied form both of figure.
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page_text: and ornament are imparted in simple outline and elaborate colors. This
process is also economical, the effect being produced at considerable less
cost than the old method of blacking or "picking out."
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Kendrick in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 11th November 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
KENDRICK, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Warwick,. send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Kendrick, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Kendrick, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Kendrick,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should, and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF COFFIN FURNITURE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Kendrick,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Kendrick, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in the ornamentation of coffin furniture in the
manner as follows:-I take the ordinary tin, and by means of tools.or

page_text: dies cut out or raise any design, form, or, pattern (chiefly in outline). I
then take any suitable device, design, or pattern printed upon specially
prepared paper, and by a process known as transferring, viz., laying the
said paper with the design towards the tin and moistening the back.
The paper is then removed leaving the impression or device upon the
tin, and in this manner designs of the most varied forms both of figure
and ornament are imparted in simple outline and elaborate colors. This
process is also economical, the effect being produced at a considerable less
cost than the old method of blacking or picking out.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention
I claim the printing or transferring of any suitable design, device, or
pattern upon sheets of iron, whether tinned or untinned, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Kendrick, have here-
⚫ unto set my hand and scal, this Ninth day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
THOMAS KENDRICK, (L.S.)