A METHOD FOR MAKING STAMPED FRONTS FOR REGISTER STOVES; SHIP STOVES, AND OTHER STOVES, FENDERS, TEA TRAYS, AND OTHER TRAYS, MOULDINGS, AND OTHER ARTICLES IN BRASS AND OTHER METALS
Year: 1814

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
MASON, of Willenhall, in the County of Stafford, Tea Tray. Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of
April, in the fifty-fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Isaac Mason, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that. I, the said Isaac Mason, my exors,
admors, and assigns; should and lawfully might,.during the term of years
therein mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD FOR
MAKING STAMPED FRONTS FOR REGISTER STOVES; SHIP STOVES, AND OTHER STOVES,
FENDERS, TEA TRAYS, AND OTHER TRAYS, MOULDINGS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
IN BRASS AND OTHER METALS;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso that if I, the said Isaac Mason, shall 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 six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease,

page_text: determine, and become void, 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
Isaac Mason, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, that is to say:-
Upon brass or other metals rolled thin and cut or shaped into proper
lengths, sizes, or dimensions, I stamp such impressions as may be required
to pattern or fashion, or are proper for fronts for register stoves, ship
stoves, and other stoves, fenders, tea trays, and other trays, mouldings,
and other articles. I line or cover the inside of the brass or other metals
so stamped with stamped sheet iron, and the iron lining or inside cover-
ing I fasten to the stamped and impressed fronts by means of rivets or
other sufficient fastenings (rivets I generally make use of, but any other
sufficient fastening may be used), for the purpose of giving strength or stability
to the whole. The brass or other metals thus stamped, impressed, lined, and
prepared, I then neatly fit and affix together by means of screws, loops, pins,
or other sufficient fastenings, so as to resemble the fitting and affixing together
of disjointed pieces or parts of such articles made of wood or other materials,
and so and in such manner as to form, when fitted and affixed together as
aforesaid, an entire front for a register stove, ship stove, or other stove; fender,
tea tray, or other tray, moulding, or any other article (as the case may be) to
which my Invention can or may be applied. Such of the articles to which my
said Invention is applicable as are made with the view of being used as fronts
to register stoves, ship stoves, or other stoves, mouldings, or other articles, and
required to be fixed or fastened up, may be fixed up permanently by being
built in with brickwork, or by means of screws, loops, pins, or other sufficient
fastenings; or they may, by means of bolts, pins, slides, springs, or other
moveable fastenings, be attached to register stoves, ship stoves, or other stoves
or other fixed things, or to any casing, groundwork, abutment, or substance
built, put up, or made for the purpose, and so as that the fronts themselves
may be rendered moveable and be easily and conveniently taken away or
moved from such things as they may be so attached to for the purpose of
being cleaned, or in order to be preserved, in case the room or place where
they shall be situated shall not at any time be occupied or used, and may
afterwards, with like ease and convenience, be replaced when wanted. The
sheet iron lining is formed into proper shape and size by using a stamp so
much less in size or dimension than the stamp to be used for the stamped
fronts, as will make the sheet iron lining fit into the stamped fronts as nearly

page_text: as may be (except only the reeded, fluted, or hollow parts of such stamped
fronts, which parts always necessarily remain raised above the level or fit of
the sheet iron lining), before such stamped fronts and sheet iron linings or
inside coverings are rivetted or fastened together in the manner herein-before
described. Fenders, tea trays, and other trays, and such other articles as are
generally moveable when used, and to which my Invention is applicable,
may be stamped and constructed in manner aforesaid to pattern or fashion
either with or without the sheet iron lining.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Mason, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
above-named Isaac Mason, in the
ISAAC MASON. (L.s.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
above-named Isaac Mason, in the
presence of
EDWD CROWTHER.
1.0
ISAAC MASON. (L.S.)