IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF KETTLES, SAUCEPANS, AND OTHER COOKING VESSELS
Year: 1851

page_text: WILKES, of Wolverhampton, Brassfounder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of
December, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, in the fifteenth year of
Ier reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Wilkes, my exors, adñors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel Wilkes, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Wilkes, my
exors, adiñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with and no others, from
time to time, and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should, and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Town, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF KETTLES, SAUCEPANS, AND OTHER COOKING VESSELS;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Samuel
Wilkes shall cause a particular description of 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 Her Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months, next and immediately after the dato
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
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
Samuel Wilkes, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner of performing the same are fully described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to
say:-
My Invention consist of manufacturing kettles, saucepans, and other cooking
vessels from sheet brass, by employing a succession of dies and tools for
raising the discs, and then using dies and pressure to bring the parts into the
desired form. Heretofore, like vessels have been made from copper, and
alloys of copper by stamping in dies, and also by stamping combined with
planishing on suitable chucks or shapes; and I would state that die and
pressure tool have heretofore been used in shaping sheet metal in the manu-
facture of buttons and other small articles. The metal I employ is that known
as Muntz's metal, consisting of pure zinc and copper, in the proportion of as
nearly as may be of forty parts of zinc to sixty parts of copper, and such class
of brass will be found particularly applicable for such manufactures, and its
application to the making of such articles is a great improvement.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
In
Figure 1 shews a disc, which is cut out by cutting dies or tools; and
Figure 2 is a small saucepan made therefrom by a succession of dies and tools,
and the bulge is produced by dies such as are shewn at Figure 3. In reducing
the disc, Figure 1, to the form desired, six dies and tools are used, the result of
each of which is shewn respectively at A, B, C, D, E, F, the same being
annealed between the processes, and before employing the dies or tools,
Figure 3. The upper edge may be turned over and have a handle affixed and
finished in like manner to other similar saucepans, and the same is to be
tinned on the inside, as heretofore practised in making similar saucepans.
making teakettles the lower part or body, whether circular or oval, is to be
raised in like manner to that above described, by means of a succession of dies
and tools; the bottom part and spout are to be formed and affixed, and the
interior tinned as heretofore; and in making other forms of saucepans and
other cooking vessels they are to be raised as above described, and finished
by fixing handles and parts as heretofore, when making like cooking vessels
by the means heretofore resorted to, and which being well known will not
be required to be explained.
"
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of

page_text: performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is
the manufacture of kettles, saucepans, and other cooking vessels herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Wilkes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.