Improvements in Lead Letters and the like for Monumental and other Purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lead Letters and the like for Monumental and
other Purposes.
WILLIAM SKELTON, 70 Senhouse Street Maryport, Cumberland, Monumental
Mason, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists of solid lead letters, scrolls, figures, flowers, and the like,
and their application for inlaying in marble, granite, or other stone, brass, or other
metals, for memorial, or other purposes of every description.
I make the letter, figure or device in the marble, or other material, in the usual
way, which may be of various sizes or shapes as required, and bore holes as shewn
in drawing the number or size of which may be varied as thought desirable;
(a process well known to monumental masons).
:
For the purpose of inlaying I cast in moulds made of stone or other suitable
material, perfect solid lead letters, numerals, etc., of the shape required, preferably
less in size (as shewn in drawing) but bulkier to allow of their beating into the
holes.
The letters thus made are hammered into the marble, etc., which may be done
whilst in position, or in brass, or other metals, (wrought or cast) for memorial plates,
door plates and the like, the lead may be either hammered, or run direct into the
letters or other device to be inlaid. All superfluous lead to be cleaned and letters
finished in the usual way.
In the drawings, Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, represent the leads for inlaying,
and 14, 24, 34, and 4 represent the letters, etc., to be inlaid with the holes shewn.
Dated this 10th day of April 1893.
WILLIAM SKELTON
Maryport.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lead Letters and the like for Monumental and
other Purposes.
WILLIAM SKELTON of 70 Senhouse Street, Maryport, in the County of
Cumberland, Monumental Mason do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
The invention consists of solid lead letters, scrolls, figures, flowers and the like,
and their application for inlaying in marble, limestone, granite, slate, or other stone,
(natural or artificial) brass, copper, gunmetal or other material, for memorial or
other purposes of every description.
-I-make the letter figure or device in the marble, or other material, in the usual
way, which may be of various sizes-or-shapes as required, and bore holes as shewn
in drawing (filed with Provisional Specification) the number-or-size of which may
be varied as thought desirable, (a process known to monumental masons).
For the purpose of inlaying I cast in moulds made of stone (or other suitable
material) or punch from sheets, perfect solid lead letters numerals, etc., of the shape
required, preferably less in size as shewn in drawing (filed with Provisional
Specification) but bulkier to allow of their beating into the holes.
The letters, etc., thus made are hammered into the marble, etc., which may
be done whilst in position, or in brass, or other metals (wrought or cast) for
memorial plates, door plates, and the like, the lead may be either hammered or run
Price 8d 1

page_text: direct into the letters or other device to be inlaid. All superfluous lead to be
cleaned off and letters finished in the usual way.
In the drawings (filed with the Provisional Specification) Figures 1, 2, 3, & 4
represent the leads for inlaying, and 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, represent the letters, etc., to be
inlaid with the holes shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is,
1. The application of perfect solid lead letters, numerals, etc., for memorial and
other purposes substantially as above described.
2. Letters and the like made as above described are of the most substantial
character and may be executed whilst the marble or other material is in any
position.
Dated this 18th day of May 1893
WILLIAM SKELTON.