NEW METHODS OF POLISHING AND ROLLING INTO DIFFERENT FORMS ALL MALLIABLE METAL, AND MAKING OF TYRE POR ALL SORTS OF WHEEL CARRIAGES
Year: 1759

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BLOCKLEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Locksmith, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second hath
been graciously pleased to grant unto me, the said Thomas Blockley, and my
heirs, His Royall Letters Patents, bearing date the Fourteenth day of July,
in the thirty-third year of the reign of His said Majesty, for my "NEW
METHODS OF POLISHING AND ROLLING INTO DIFFERENT FORMS ALL MALLIABLE METAL,
AND MAKING OF TYRE POR ALL SORTS OF WHEEL CARRIAGES," to have, hold, exer-
cise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein
granted unto me, the said Thomas Blockley, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date thereof, fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute
in such case made and provided. And to the end that I, the said Thomas
Blockley, my executors, administrators, and assigus, and every of them, may
have and enjoy the full benefit and sole use and exercise of the said Invention,
His said Majesty did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, require and strictly
command all and every person and persons whatsoever in that part of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, during the continuance of
the said term of fourteen years thereby granted, either directly or indirectly
do make, use, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same
so attained unto by me, the said Thomas Blockley, as aforesaid, nor in any

page_text: wise counterfeit, immitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or consent to
be made any addition thereunto or substraction from the same, whereby to
pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of me, the said Thomas
Blockley, my executors, administrators, or assigns, in writing under my or
their hands and seals, first had and obtained. Provided always, that if at
any time during the said term thereby granted it should be made appear to
His said Majesty, His heirs or successors, or any six or more of His Privy
Council, that the said grant is contrary to law, or prejudicial or inconvenient
to his subjects in general, or that the said Invention is not a new Invention as
to the publick use and exercise thereof, or not invented or found out by me,
the said Thomas Blockley, then, upon signification or declaration thereof made
by His said Majesty, His heirs or successors, the said Letters Patent should
forthwith cease and be utterly void. Provided also, that nothing therein
contained should be construed to extend to give priviledge to me, the said
Thomas Blockley, my executors, administrators, or assigns, to use or immitate
any Invention which had thentofore been found out and publickly used in the
said Kingdom of Great Britain, the Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed. And whereas in the said Letters Patent there is a proviso to
the effect following: Provided also, that if I, the said Thomas Blockley,
should 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 inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and the liberties
and advantages thereby granted, should cease and be void.
NOW I, the said Thomas Blockley, in pursuance of the said provisoe in
the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare the following to be a true
and particular description of the same:-
Let two rolls for the rolling of iron be prepared, turned in such
different forms as occasion may require. And the same are to be
rolled right hand and left, two or more together, as in the margin
hereof. And the same may be polished by an engine called a crank
carrying a stone. And for tire for the use of wheel carriages, let
a bar of iron, of the length intended, be heated in a furnace. When
hot let the same be put into a press or stamp with which the holes
may be peirced. When this is done let the barr be taken to an
anvell made hollow, in the nature of a mould, to the form and size
the tire is intended; and let the same be wrought by a hammer

page_text: fixed in an engine of the exact dimensions of the sloop or hollow of the anvell,
by which the tire may be compleated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Blockley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine.
The presence of us,
THO BROMFIELD.
MILES CROSBY.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Eighth day of November, in
the thirty-third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second,
the said Thomas Blockley came before our said Lord the King in His Chan-
cery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing
therein contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped
according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
William and Queen Mary, and so forth.