AN IMPROVED POLISHING AND BRIGHTENING SURFACE
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Leake Worth, of 293, Oxford Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Brush Maker, and Agmond Dishin
Vesey Canavan, of Fitzroy Street, also in the County of Middlesex,
late Sergeant Saddler in the 13th Light Dragoons, for the Inven-
tion of "AN IMPROVED POLISHING AND BRIGHTENING SURFACE."
Sealed the 29th March 1854, and dated the 5th October 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Leake
Worth and Agmond Dishin Vesey Canavan at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 5th October
1858.
We SAMUEL LEAKE WORTH, of 298, Oxford Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Brush Maker, and AGMOND DISHIN VESEY CANAVAN, of
Fitzroy Street, also in the County of Middlesex, late Serjeant Saddler
in the 13th Light Dragoons, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED POLISHING AND BRIGHTENING SURFACE" to
be as follows:—
In the polishing of knives and articles generally a flat band of buil
leather fixed to a plain flat surface or round a drum or wheel is
generally employed. Now our Invention consists in producing a

page_text: polishing and brightening surface by forming a band or belt of strips or
pieces of leather, placed endwise and secured at bottom, piece to piece,
by wires or other suitable means of fastening. The several pieces are
pressed closely together, and form a firm surface at top of great polish-
ing and brightening power, arising from the greater friction produced by
the several distinct pieces compared to the friction produced by a flat
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Leake Worth and Agmond Dishin Vesey
Canavan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
SAMUEL LEAKE WORTH, of 293, Oxford Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Brush Maker, and AGMOND DISHIN VESEY CANAVAN, of
Fitzroy Street, also in the County of Middlesex, late Serjeant Saddler
in the 13th Light Dragoons, send greeting.
1.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing, date the Fifth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Samuel Leake Worth and
Agmond Dishin Vesey Canavan, Her special licence that we, the
vaid Samuel Leake Worth and Agniond Dishin Vesey Canavan, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Samuel Leake Worth and Agmond Dishin Vesey Canavan, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED POLISHING AND BRIGHTENING SURFACE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Samuel Leake Worth and Agmond
Dishin Vesey Canavan, or one of us, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals. or under the hand and seal of one of us,

page_text: should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Samuel Leake Worth and
Agmond Dishin Vesey Canavan, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, that is to say:
In the polishing of knives and articles generally a flat band of buff
or other leather fixed to a plain flat surface or round a drum or wheel
is generally employed. Now our Invention consists in producing a
polishing and brightening surface by forming a band or belt of strips
or pieces of leather placed endwise or edgewise, and secured at
hottom, piece to piece, by wires or other suitable means of fastening.
The several pieces are pressed closely together, and form a firm surface
at top of great polishing and brightening power, arising from the greater
friction produced by the several distinct pieces compared to the friction
produced by a flat even surface. This improved surface may be attached
by glue or cement to a wooden or other suitable back.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claini,--
The producing of an improved polishing and brightening surface in
the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Leake Worth, for myself
and on behalf of the said Agmond Dishin Vesey Canavan, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of April, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
SAMUEL LEAKE WORTH. (L.S.)