A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF MANU- FACTURING TIN, OR IRON PLATES COVERED WITH TIN, COMMONLY CALLED TIN PLATES, INTO COVERS FOR DISHES AND PLATES
Year: 1806

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT WALE KING, of Kirby Street, in the Parish of Saint Andrew,
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Tin Plate Worker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, in
and by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of May last, for Himself,
His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said William
Robert Wale King, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William
Robert Wale King, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said William Robert Wale
King, 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, use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland called England, the Dominion Wales, and the Town of Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF MANU-
FACTURING TIN, OR IRON PLATES COVERED WITH TIN, COMMONLY CALLED TIN PLATES,
INTO COVERS FOR DISHES AND PLATES;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso for making the same void, in case I 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

page_text: 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 date
of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Robert Wale King, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed; and I
have for that purpose made and prepared the Drawings hereunto annexed,
in which,-
Fig. 1 represents the sides or body of a cover, which are of entire pieces,
and made of tin, or iron plates covered with tin, commonly called tin plates,
and are hollowed, and planished and grooved together, either inside or outside,
from E to F, in the manner heretofore practised for making dish covers. The
sides or body is left of sufficient depth from F to the bottom of the cover, for
the making my new and improved mouldings at the foot or base thereof,
instead of adding a rim to the same by the method now practised. I regulate
this depth according to the particular moulding I propose to put on the cover.
I put the sides or body of the cover together, and solder the grooves thereof
from E to F while the top is yet off. I then lay the sides or body on a piece
of lead or block, having a hollow place or hole sunk in it, and with a bouge
hammer I sink a hollow or bouge on the side or body of the cover, immediately
below F, as represented by letter A, Fig. 2, and which is either higher or
lower, according to the form or depth of the moulding I intend to make. This
hollow or bouge may also be produced by a swage or tool the shape of the
bouge; but I prefer the hammer and lead or block, being less liable to injure
the stuff or metal plates, the bougo being made in the sides or body of the
cover. I then place it between the swage or tool, Fig. 3, to form a moulding
according to the pattern desired, as represented by B, Fig. 3.
Figure 4 represents the sides or body of a cover under the swage or tool,
Fig. 3, which in the operation is moved round by the workman on the bed or
bottom of the swage or tool G, Fig. 3, the form of which is represented by
the dotted lines. The edge of the sides or body of the cover being pressed
by the workman close to the guide H, Fig. 3, the impression is given by
smart strokes of the hammer C, Fig. 3, as represented at D, Fig. 4. When
the cover is finished swaging I solder the sides or body from F, Fig. 1, to the
bottom, and then wire it round and groove the top on in the ordinary way.
Fig. 5 represents a cover finished. I make these covers for dishes or plates
either oval, round, or oblong, in the making of which the operations, as I have
already stated, are the same.

page_text: Fig. 6-represents the tool or swage, which is made of iron or other hard
metal, A being the hammer, having its face cut according to the moulding
proposed to be made on the covers. B is the bed or bottom of the tool or
swage, having its face cut responsive to the indentition on the hammer. C is
the pivot or joint on which the hammer works. D is a ferrel or guide by
which the width or depth of the moulding is regulated, and is moved back-
ward or forward at the will of the workman, and fixed to the intended place
by the means of the nut or screw E. F is the shank of the swage or tool,
which is also made of iron or other hard metal, and is of length sufficient to
raise the sides or body of the cover from the block or bench G, on which the
swage or tool is fixed.
In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal, the Seventh
day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred