A NEW MANUFACTURE, VIDELICET, PAPER ORNA- MENTED BY EMBOSSING OR ENCHASING
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GREGORY, HANCOCK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Dye Sinker,.
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellant Majesty King George the Third, by His.
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixth day of April, in the thirty-sixth year of His said Majesty's
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said John Gregory Hancock, His
special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John.
Gregory Hancock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and law-
fully might, during the term of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise,.
and vend my Invention of "A NEW MANUFACTURE, VIDELICET, PAPER ORNA-
MENTED BY EMBOSSING OR ENCHASING," within that part of His Majesty's King-
dom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Majesty's Colonies and Plan-
tations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said John Gregory Hancock,
my executors, administrators, and assigns,.should in my or their dis-
cretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
whereby it was and is declared, that if I, the said John Gregory Hancock,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which 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 one calendar month next and imme-
diately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent should be void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the said John
Gregory Hancock, do hereby declare that the following is a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of my said Invention, and of the manner in which the same
is to be performed (that is to say):-
My new invented manufacture, videlicet, of paper ornamented by embossing
or euchasing, is made or produced by the following described means :-The
ornament may be embossed or enchased upon the paper in the same or a
similar manner as impressions are or may be made upon other thin substances,
such as copper, tin, &c., by its being put between a die and its force of the full
size of the paper to be ornamented, or at least of the size of the ornament,
which ornament may be engraved upon the dye in such form and stile as fancy
may suggest. The dic, force, and paper are in this state compressed by any of
the powers or mechanical means usually employed in such cases, such as a
press, stamp, rolls, &c. By the technical term "force," which by artists is well
understood, is meant the substance or matter, which, having received the
impression of the die, either by the force being cast upon the die or by striking
the former upon the latter, becomes a sort of counter die, between which and
the die itself the substance to be enchased is placed. The substances which it
may be used for forming forces in the ornamenting of paper are, any ductilo
metal, or composition of metals, or leather, paper, linen, or other material. that.
will receive and retain sufficiently the impression of the die. For the more
ready and accurate adaptation of the force to the die, I sometimes use them
connected by a joint or hinge, in a similar manner to that of the following
described rims or frames. In such cases as require the ornament to be upon
the margin only of the paper, I generally use rims or frames seperate or
jointed. The latter kind are shown in the Figures annexed, of which Figure
1 and 2 shew the side view and plan of the hinged ones open, wherein
(a, a, a, a, shews the rim frame or die upon which the ornament to be com-
municated to the paper is engraved, or the die may be formed in parts, fixt
contignons in the frame, (b, b, b, b,) the other rine or frame, upon which or in a
groove of the same is fixed the force; (c) is the handle; (d, d,) are the hinges
or joints. When the rims or frames are used in a press, or stamp, or any such
like machine, I place a strong plate of metal or other strong material, as (E),
Figure 3, upon the upper one, the lower one resting on the bottom of tho
press or stamp, or on a plate fixed upon it, upon which strong plate the bolt of
the press or stamp, or the end of the screw of the press acts. It will be con-
venient in many cases to fix this plate to the bolt or hammer of the press or
stamp, so that they may rise and fall together. If the power of compression
be communicated by means of rolls or any such like means, it will be neces-

page_text: sary or at least eligible to have two plates of metal (as f, 9), Figure 4, to
include the pair of frames or rims, having their external surfaces or planes
nearly parallel. Figure 5 shews the method of forming the joints of the
frames or rims, by fixing two screws (h,h,) in the two studs (i,i,) that rise upon
the cross bar of the lower frame or rim, the ends of which screws are made
pointed to constitute the center of motion of the upper frame or rim, and
are received into the ends of the cross bar or axle (k), so that it may be free or
nearly free from shake. Figure 3 & 4 shew the frames or rims closed;
the same letters are put upon the same parts in all the Figures.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Gregory Hancock, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of May, One thousand seven
handed and ninety-six.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
W. WHATELEY.
THOMAS LLOYD.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Second day of May, in
the year above written, the aforesaid John Gregory Hancock came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.