MAKING TOOLS FOR TAPERING CYLINDERS OF DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS;, MADE OF IRON, STEEL, METAL OR MIXTURE OF METALS, AND ALSO POR TAPERING BARS OF IRON, -STEEL, METAL ORTURE OFS
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1,
HENRY OSBORN, of Whitmore House, in the Parish of Aston, in the
County of Warwick, send greeting..
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of October, in the fifty-third
year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Henry Osborn,
my exors, adiiors, and, assigns, His special licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that T, the said Henry Osborn, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, during the term, of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and Berwick on Tweed, my new Invention of "MAKING TOOLS
FOR TAPERING CYLINDERS OF DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS;, MADE OF IRON, STEEL,
METAL, OR MIXTURE OF METALS, AND ALSO POR TAPERING BARS OF IRON,
-STEEL, METAL, OR MIXTURE OF METALS;" in which Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Henry Osborn, under my
-hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next. immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
will more. fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Osborn, in compliance and
performance of the said proviso, do hereby declare that this instrument
in writing under my hand and seal doth particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, by the description in writing herein-after
mentioned (that is to say):
I make spindles of wrought or cast iron, or metal or mixture of
metals, of a square or any other convenient form and of any length,
as may best suit my purpose. The said spindles working in east or
wrought iron or metal frames on spindles so made, I fix collars or tools
made of cast or wrought iron, or metal, or mixture of metals. In these
collars or tools groves or hollows are made, taper in form and various
as to size, and adapted to the intended purposes by means of which, and
being applied to mill or machine power, I taper my cylinders, bars of
iron, steel, or other metals and implements, in such manner as may
be required for all the purposes intended for the tapering a cylinder,
and so forth, which is to make a gun or pistol barrel, or any other
article. I fix one, two, three, or more tools or collars on one or more
spindles, and work them in pairs. And for the better explaining my
ideas I annex a Drawing of a spindle, on which tools or collars are
fixed, and also a frame in which the same is to work; see Nos 1, 2, 3,
and 4. My tools thus prepared, I proceed as follows:-I take cylinders
or bars of steel, iron, metal, or mixture of metal, and place them in a
furnace properly constructed, and having made them of a proper heat
I
pass
the same through the said tools or collars; first, through N° 1;
second, through No 2; third, through N° 3; but I do not confine myself
to any given number, but go from 1, to any number, as occasion may
require, until I have accomplished my purpose. And lastly, I do
declare that any workman of competent skill on the making and con-
structing of tools for tapering and the like purposes, will find no difficulty
in forming, making, and completing the same, from the general instruc-
tions hereby given.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Osborn, have to this Spe-
cification set my hand and seal, the Eleventh day of December,
One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
HENRY OSBORN. (L.S.).

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1813, the aforesaid Henry Osborn 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 stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.