AN IM- PROVED METHOD OF MAKING AND CONSTRUCTING ROLLERS OR CYLINDERS, BOTH SOLID AND HOLLOW, WHICH WILL BE FOUND USEFUL IN VARIOUS MANUFACTORIES OF THIS KINGDOM
Year: 1817

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
Cook, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gilt Toy Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His inost Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing. date at Westminster, the Seventeenth day of
the
May, in the fifty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me,
said Benjamin Cook, my exors, adñññors, and assigns, His especial licence,.
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Benjamin Cook,
my exors, admiors, 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, my Invention of "AN IM-
PROVED METHOD OF MAKING AND CONSTRUCTING ROLLERS OR CYLINDERS, BOTH
SOLID AND HOLLOW, WHICH WILL BE FOUND USEFUL IN VARIOUS MANUFACTORIES OF
THIS KINGDOM;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
that if I; the said Benjamin Cook, shäll 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

page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin Cook, 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)-
:-
Instead of hollow rollers or cylinders now used for printing of calicos,
cottons, &c. &c., made entirely of copper, my improved method is as
follows: I make my rollers or cylinders either hollow or solid, of cast iron,
or wrought or hammered iron, of such sizes I find convenient, which cast
iron or wrought or hammered iron rollers or cylinders I place within
cylinders of copper, brass, or a mixture of copper, brass, or other metals,
which outside cylinders of copper, brass, or mixture of copper, brass, or
other metals, I compress upon the inside cylinder of cast iron, or wrought or
hammered iron, by passing them through holes in a draw plate, or otherways,
as I find convenient, which compressed cylinders, when engraved or otherwise
finished, &c. &c. &c., will be found useful for printing of linens, calicos,
cottons, woollens, paper, or any other article that may be embossed, printed
upon, or ornamented by means of rollers or cylinders. The advantages
of this my Invention are that the cheap metal of iron is so intimately
combined with other more valuable metals that both become identified as one,
so that rollers or cylinders made under my Patent, which will cost the
manufacturer only perhaps half the price of those in present use, will at the
same time be found more valuable, inasmuch as they will admit the engraving,
&c. &c. &c., being obliterated and renewed twice or thrice, and when the
outside cylinder of copper is worn out, the inside cylinder of iron may always
be covered again at a very small expense, thereby preventing that great loss
which the manufacturer now experiences in being obliged to dispose of his
old worn-out rollers at the price of old copper.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Cook, have hereunto set my
hand. and seal, this . Eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
BENJAMIN (L.S.) COOK.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1817, the aforesaid Benjamin Cook 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 Tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventeon.