AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FENDERS OF BRASS, IRON, OR STEEL
Year: 1823

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
EYRE, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Fender Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of May, One thousand eight hundred.
and twenty-three, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Eyre, my exors,
admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Edward Eyre, my exors, adiñors, and assigns,
during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FENDERS OF BRASS, IRON, OR STEEL;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, that if I, the said Edward Eyre, 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, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two 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, determine, and become void, as in and by.
the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
'Edward Eyre, 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 explanation thereof, herein-after contained, and in
and by the Drawing or Drawings hereunto annexed.
His Majesty's Letters Patent have already been granted to Henry Ibbotson,
⚫of Sheffield aforesaid, for an Invention of a fender capable of being extended
.or contracted in length, so as to fit fire-places of different dimensions. And
the said Henry Ibbotson has, in describing and ascertaining the nature of his
said Invention, confined himself to a method or methods of extending or con-
tracting the fender in a straight or right-lined direction, whereas my Invention
or improvement consists in a method of extending or contracting the fender,
not in a straight or right-lined direction, but in a curved line, that is to say,
the extending or contracting parts turn upon centres, and consequently move
in arcs of circles; and I hereby claim every method by which this my Invention
can be carried into effect.
As an example of the method of carrying my said Invention into effect, I
refer to the said Drawing or Drawings hereunto annexed, and in which
Drawing or Drawings Fig. 1 is a front view of the fender; Fig. 2, a view of
one end of the fender; Fig. 3, a plan of the fender; Fig. 4, a view of the
under side of. the fender; and Fig. 5, an inside view of the fender; in all. of
which, said last-mentioned Figures, as well as in the Figures 6, 7, 8, 9, the
same letters of reference apply to the similar. parts of the fender. A, A, &c.
are the upright fixed part or plate of the fender; B, the fixed bottom plate;
C, C, &c., the moveable or extending or contracting ends of the fender, turning
upon joints or hinges at D, D, &c., upon the pins E, E, &c., and which moveable
or extending or contracting ends are kept or retained in their required position
by means of the screws F, F, &c., which are affixed to the bottom of the fender
B, and passing through the circular slits or grooves G, G, &c. in the moveable
or extending or contracting ends C, C, &c., are secured by the means of
screwed nuts, as shewn in Figures 4, 6, and 2; H, H, &c., are raised ledges, to
retain the fire-irons in their places, and which may either be supported above
by means of rests or standards formed of or united with the pins E, E, &c., of
the joints, or otherwise. In Figures 3 and 4, the moveable or extending or
contracting ends C, C, are shewn as closed or contracted; and in Figures
6 and 7, the ends are represented as opened or extended. Fig. 8 shews one
end of the fixed part B of the fender; and Fig. 9, one of the moveable or
extending or contracting ends, the other ends being similar but reversed. The