A COMBINATION OF MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING VARIOUS SHAPES, PATTERNS, AND SIZES FROM METALS OR OTHER MATERIALS CAPABLE OF RECEIVING AN OVAL, ROUND, OR OTHER FORM
Year: 1823

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PIERRE
JEAN BAPTISTE VICTOR GOSSETT, of Queen Street, Haymarket, in the County
of Middlesex, Merchant, 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 Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster,
the Eighteenth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-
three, in the fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Pierre
Jean Baptiste Victor Gosset, my exors, admors, and assigns,. His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Pierre Jean
Baptiste Victor Gosset, my exors, adñiors, 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, and
also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, the Invention of
"A COMBINATION OF MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING VARIOUS SHAPES, PATTERNS,
AND SIZES FROM METALS OR OTHER MATERIALS CAPABLE OF RECEIVING AN OVAL,
ROUND, OR OTHER FORM," (which said Invention was communicated to me by
a certain Foreigner residing abroad); in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso that if I, the said Pierre Jean Baptiste Victor Gosset,
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 inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the salu
Pierre Jean Baptiste Victor Gosset, do hereby declare that the nature of
the Invention (which has been communicated to me as aforesaid), and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained by the following description thereof, reference at the same time
being had to the Drawings represented in the margin hercof, and to the
letters and Figures marked thereon as follows (that is to say) :-
The Invention consists in the employment of certain machinery, tools, or
apparatus, for the purpose of forming or producing articles of various shapes,
patterns, and sizes out of materials which are usually known under the
denomination of metalic or wire gauzes or tissues, or other materials, such as
gauzes or open textures made of cane, wicker, whalebone, or other suitable
substance. The operation being performed by pressing or forcing the said
metalic or wire gauzes or other materials, as aforesaid, into proper shaped
moulds or cavities, and when the said wire gauzes or other material is so
pressed or forced into the said moulds' or cavities, the articles so formed or
produced may be secured and caused to retain in a permanent degree thic
shape or pattern which may have been given to them by the moulds, even
after the said articles have been completely withdrawn and removed from the
moulds, so as thereby to produce articles of various shapes, patterns, and sizes,
adapted to a variety of useful and ornamental purposes in a more expeditious
and economical manner than has been hitherto practised.
Figs. 1 & 2, of the Drawing in the margin hereof, represent the said
machinery or moulds adapted to form or produce articles of an oval, round, or
other form, which said articles may require or admit of a small aperture being
made in the top or crown thereof, for the purpose of receiving a nob or
button to hold them by, or for any other purpose. It consists of a pattern or
block A, of metal, wood, or other suitable material, which is formed on the
exterior surface to the desired shape and size of the article intended to be
produced. The block A has a screw a, a, projecting up from the top or crown
thereof. B represents a pattern or mould, made in like manner of any
suitable material; the interior surface of this mould is formed to the desired
shape of the article intended to be produced, and has an aperture made in the
crown thereof, so as to be capable of passing over the screw a, a, and thus
permit the mould B to come down over the block A, in the manner seen in
Fig. 2. The manner of using this machinery is as follows:-The metalic
wire gauze or other material (which is intended to be shaped) has a hole made
through it, and is passed over the screw a, a, so as to rest upon the crown of
the block A, as seen at b, b, in Fig. 1. In this situation the upper mould B is
placed upon the said metalic gauze, with the screw a, a, passing through its

page_text: aperture as aforesaid, and the nut or handle C is put on its place, and is
turned down upon the screws a, a, by which means it presses down the
upper mould B upon the metalic wire gauze or other material, and thereby
forces it into cavity or space between the block A and mould B, as represented
by the Figure 2, so as to give it the desired shape of the article required.
In this state the whole machinery is inverted, as Fig. 2, and placed upon a
bench or other convenient support, with the screw a, a, projecting downwards,
and a ring or hoop of tinned wire or other suitable material is inserted within
the lower edge of article, and is soldered or otherwise securely fixed to the
wire gauze or other material of which the article is formed; this ring or hoop
is seen at c, c, in Figs. 2 & 3. The nut C may then be screwed back off
the screw a, a, and the mould and block may be separated so as to take out
the article which will be found to retain the shape or pattern given to it by
the said mould or machinery. After this the portions of the metalic wire
gauze or other material which may happen to project beyond the edges of the
aforesaid hoop or ring are to be cut off evenly all round, and a small orna-
mental band of metal or other material may be soldered or otherwise fixel
upon the exterior edge of the article, so as partly to conceal the interior hoop
or ring and render the whole neat, and then to finish and complete it a small
nob or button may be fixed through the aperture in the crown for the con-
venience of carrying the article by. Articles of this description will be
found very serviceable for covering up delicate commodities or articles of
food to preserve them from the effects of flies, and for a great variety of useful
purposes.
Figs. 3 and 4, in the Drawings upon the margin, represent another con-
struction of the said machinery, being adapted to form or produce articles of
such a description as will not admit of a hole or aperture being made in
them. It consists of the external mould B and the internal block or shape A,
which are adapted to enter and fit into each other sufficiently to have the
metalic wire gauze or other material pressed between them, as herein-before
described. They are represented as being pressed together by the aid of a
screw a, a, working through a nut formed in the upper part of a frame or
stirrup D, D, as represented in the Fig. 4, but the mould and blocks may be
pressed together in any other convenient and suitable manner. The metalic
wire gauze or other material are treated in this last-described machine by
nearly the same process as has been herein-before described with reference to
the Figs. 1 & 2. The hoop or ring which is fixed within the edge of the
article to cause it to retain its shape or pattern is represented at C, C, in

page_text: I have now described a convenient construction of the aforesaid machinery
for producing various shapes, patterns, and sizes from metals or other
materials capable of receiving an oval, round, or other form, and I hereby
declare that the said Invention consists in forming or producing articles of
various shapes, patterns, and sizes, out of metallic wire gauze or other suitable
material as aforesaid, by the operation of pressing or forcing the said metallic
wire gauze or other material into moulds or shapes of the desired form of
the article intended to be produced. The articles so formed are produced
from the metalic wire gauze or other material being caused to retain or
preserve the shape or pattern which may have been given to them by means
of one or more hoops or rings, which are secured by solder or otherwise to the
edges of the said articles during the time that they remain within the mould.
At the same time it must be observed that the said Invention is not considered
to extend to the forming of articles out of sheets or plates of metal by pressing
or forcing them into mould or shapes, but only to such articles of metal as the
wire gauze before mentioned or other gauzes or open textures formed of
suitable materials, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Pierre Jean Baptiste Victor Gosset, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of February, One
thousand cight hundred and twenty-four.