IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE. OF PARTS OF HARNESS AND SADDLERY FURNITURE
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DEAKIN, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Merchant and Manufacturer of
Hardware, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at.
Westminster, the Twelfth day of July, in the sixth year of Her reign,.
did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Deakin, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Thomas Deakin, my exors, admors, and assigns,.
or such others as I, the said Thomas Deakin, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE.
OF PARTS OF HARNESS AND SADDLERY FURNITURE;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso, that I, the said Thomas Deakin, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Thomas Deakin, do particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, as follows (that is to say):-
Improvements in the manufacture of parts of harness and sadlery furni-
ture which were and are to be combined with, and also without metallic
substances, namely, turrets, hooks, stands, loops, and guards, for the back
part of harness, saddles, loops, hooks, frontlets, rosettes, circles, and other
shapes, called rein D's or britching D's, and parts of buckles to receive a metal
tongue, and also buckles, ames, or parts of ames, parts of bridle bits, all or
any of such articles were and are to be made of one or more piece or pieces of
horn or hoof of any shape or device, plain or ornamental, or inlaid, or con-
joined with any kind of metal or other material, all or any of the above-
mentioned articles as before named, are to be made by cutting with a saw,
or other suitable instrument, from horn or hoof of sufficient strength,
thickness, and length, a shape required to form any one of the articles
named in horn or hoof, and when so prepared is to put into metal dies, or
steel dies being preferable, having previously had the shape of the article
required cut into or sunk part of the depth on one side of what is termed
the boss, and the other part sunk on the other side of the boss, bosses, or dies,
being formed of two parts; an upper and a lower part. The horn or hoof is
to be boiled or heated in the usual manner for softening horn, and cut with
a knife, to give a cleaner surface to receive a correct impression in the bosses
or dies. The bosses or dies being previously moderately heated in a furnace
sufficiently hot to make the horn or hoof take a good impression, it is then
submitted to the pressure of a pressing vice, or any other pressing instrument
of sufficient power, and left there until nearly cold, thus the article required
is prepared for finishing in a turning engine. or by a file and scraper, as the
even or uneven surface or shape of the article will require, and afterwards
polished as horn is polished in the usual way. But, in order to be more
particular in articles included in the Patent, namely, turrets, which I make
by the method as above described, and also by uniting a metallic screw to the
part where the reins pass through, and to the shank of the turret, by boring
or making a hole to receive the metal shank or screw, which, when repressed
together, unites the horn to the metal shank so firmly as to make the whole
as one piece, called a turret. I apply another method to form a turret by
taking a suitable piece of horn or hoof, and preparing and pressing it as above
described, giving a shape required by metallic dies to receive the metal
skeleton intended to be overlaid with horn or hoof as to enclose the metallio
skeleton altogether or in part, by repressing the horn or hoof upon or around

page_text: the metallic skeleton turret, by which means I secure a metallic body, overlaid
with horn or hoof. I apply a third method to form a turret, by rivitting
horn or hoof upon a skeleton turret. I apply a fourth method, which is by
covering a metallic skeleton turret with narrow strips of whalebone, as is
usually done on whip stocks, &c., by lapping and weaving round the metal
skeleton to cover the same.
The same several processes as are here particularly described I apply to the
making of hooks, loops, circles, and other shapes, buckles, parts of buckles,
ames, the ends of metallic ames, and that part of the ames to which the traces
are attached, and the rings of ames through which the reins pass, parts of
bridle bits, all which articles are known by the term of saddlers' ironmongery, -
being parts of harness and saddlery furniture, and which are thus made and
completed of horn, or hoof, or whalebone, and metal, by the methods before
described, at the option of the manufacturer. Rosettes and guards to saddle
backs have been made and lapped with whalebone before my Patent, and
which I disclaim, but not when made of horn or hoof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Deakin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
THOMAS (L.S.) DEAKIN.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being first duly
stamped) by the within named Thomas
Deakin, in the presence of
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1842, the aforesaid Thomas Deakin came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her 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 stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-three.