CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF BUTTONS
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DWYER, of Lower Bridge Street, in the Parish of Saint Andeon, in the
County of the City of Dublin, Silk Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of October, One thousand eight-hundred
and twenty-five, in the sixth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Dwyer, His especial
licence that I, the said Thomas Dwyer, my exors, admors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Thomas Dwyer, my exors, admors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my. Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BUTTONS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Thomas Dwyer, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause
the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
6 months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, referenco being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Dwyer, do hereby declare that the nature of my 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)-
My improvements in the manufacture of buttons are effected or made by
sowing, netting, or knitting covers of suitable stuff of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or
of any other material, or of any of these mixed with other materials on pieces of
metal, commonly called blanks, or on concave sheels or shapes of metal (which
may be cast in moulds, or which, from being flat, the edges may be raised,
bent, or turned), so that one side of the said blanks, or of the said shells or
shapes of metal (both of which are well known to the button manufacturers),
shall represent the basis of the form or shape of the buttons intended to be
manufactured, and the other side shall afford accommodation for the coverings
being sewn, netted, or knitted on.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Dwyer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
THOMAS (L.S.) DWYER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord 1826, the aforesaid Thomas Dwyer came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforo-
said, 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.
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.