IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC WINDOW FRAMES AND OTHER METALLIC MOULDINGS, APPLICABLE TO THE ORNAMENTING OF FURNITURE
Year: 1823

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
BAILEY, of High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Ironmonger, and
THOMAS HORNE the younger, of Belmont Row, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Brass Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of that part of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighteenth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-three, in the fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto us, the said
William Bailey and Thomas Horne, our exors, adñors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that we, the said
William Bailey and Thomas Horne, our exors, admors, 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, our Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC
WINDOW FRAMES AND OTHER METALLIC MOULDINGS, APPLICABLE TO THE ORNAMENTING
OF FURNITURE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
that if we, the said William Bailey and Thomas Horne, shall not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months

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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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
William Bailey and Thomas Horne, do hereby declare that the nature of our
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are
particularly described and ascertained in the following description thereof,
that is to say:-
"Our Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Window Frames and
other Metallic Mouldings applicable to the Ornamenting of Furniture," consists
in certain additions to and improvements on a process described in the Speci-
fication of a Patent granted to me, William Bailey, by His late Majesty, and
inrolled in the High Court of Chancery, January, One thousand eight hundred
and nineteen. In the said Specification I have described the method I then
practised, (viz):-To take bars of iron and other metals of a breadth and
thickness suitable to the size and strength of the required bars, and to pass
these bars between grooved rollers, by which rebates and mouldings were
formed upon the bars suited to the construction of sashes or window frames,
and other purposes, as therein described. Now, our improvements are a con-
tinuation of this process, so as to make bars or ribs for the formation of such
sashes or window frames, and for other articles of furniture in a more perfect
and finished manner, by means of what is called drawing. The bars of metal
(brass and copper we particularly employ) are recommended to be first pro-
duced by rolling with the form of the required bead or moulding, and when
this has been effected the said bars are passed through a driving apparatus.
Now, this apparatus may be furnished with a drawplate in the usual manner,
suited to the particular moulding intended to be produced upon the bar, but
we prefer an apparatus of the kind shewn in the annexed Drawing:-
Fig. 1 exhibits a pair of dies confined in a frame, which may be made
fast by a screw on the top, as shewn. The upper die contains the recess which
is to dress the back part of the metallic bar; the lower die has the recess
which is to dress the bead or moulding on the face of the bar (it being under-
stood that the form is produced by the previous process of rolling), a section
of which bar is shewn at Fig. 2. Other forms of bars suited to metallic
window frames are shewn in section at Figures 3, 4, and 5. These descrip-
tions or forms of bars we prefer to dress by passing through between a pair
of fixed rollers at Fig. 6, the curved surfaces of which we find to effect the
object of dressing or polishing the metal bar much better than the square-

page_text: edged dies before described. Our Invention therefore is confined to the
drawing of solid bars of metal after they have been prepared by rolling,
according to the process described in the Specification above mentioned.
In witness, whereof, I, the said William Bailey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this eighteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1823, the aforesaid William Bailey came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written, and also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.