AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AUGURS
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GILPIN, of Wedges Mills, near Litchfield, in the County of Stafford, Augur.
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 Sixteenth day of May,
in the fifty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said William
Gilpin, my exors, adñors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said William Gilpin, my exors, adiñors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, during
the term of years therein expressed, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention or discovery of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF
MANUFACTURING AUGURS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, that if I, the said William Gilpin, 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 enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited 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 said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Gilpin, do hereby declare that my said Invention or discovery is
particularly described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and the following description thereof (that is to say):-
a, piece of timber upon which the axle of the wheel 6 works, and through
which the screw is fastened; b, the wheel, which forms a pivot for the hammer h,
to work upon; c is a large screw, which passes through a and a, and makes a
stay for the whole machinery; d, a cross bar with a hole in its centre, through
which the rope-g passes; e, a screw, which passes through c, and makes a stay
for the upper end of the slide f; f,f, two strong iron slides, the inside edges of
which must be made fine, and exactly parrallel; g, the rope which elevates the
hammer h; h, the hammer, the four. extreme points, of which have a grove,
which direct its motion up and down the slides f; i, a bracket, to catch the
hammer when not in immediate use; j, a screw to stay the lower end of the
slide f; k, a screw to adjust the lower die 1, which is taken in or out at
pleasure; 7, a die, in which is made the form of the outside of the augur or
tool required; m, a large block of iron for the whole to work upon; n, the top
die, the upper end of which is inserted into the hammer h, the lower part is
made of the form of the inside of the augur or tool required; o, a stirrup, in
which a man puts his foot, and by a sudden motion of his body elevates the
hammer h four or five feet, as may be required, which hammer falls upon the
metal placed between the two dies n and b, and makes it of the form required.
In witness whereof, J, the said William Gilpin, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand night bundund and