IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACINGS FOR PIANOFORTE BACKS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Rogers, of 105, Hampstead Road, N.W.,
Pianoforte Maker, James Monington, of 32", William St., N.W.,
Pianoforte Maker, and John Weston, of 32", William St., N.W.,
Pianoforte Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACINGS
FOR PIANOFORTE BACKS.”
"
Sealed the 24th October 1871, and dated the 27th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Rogers, James
Monington, and John Weston at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 27th April 1871.
We, DAVID ROGERS, of 105, Hampstead Road, N.W., Pianoforte
Maker, JAMES MONINGTON, of 32ª, William Street, N.W., Pianoforte
Pianoforte
Maker, and JOHN WESTON, of 32, William St., N.W.,
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN BRACINGS FOR PIANOFORTE BACKS,” to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists of a new and original manner of combining
wood and metal to form the bracings for the back of the pianoforte
which support the frame upon which the strings are stretched. The

page_text: manner in which the combination is effected is by taking a bracing as
at present used, only shorter than the full length required, and making
up the full or proper length with metal, which is made to receive the
end of the bracing, and they are screwed together, and which we claim
to form a perfect compensating bracing, the temperature acting contrary.
wise on metal and wood, heat contracting wood and expanding metal,
cold expanding wood and contracting metal, which preserves the pitch
of the instrument completely.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Rogers, James Monington, and John Weston
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, DAVID
ROGERS, of 105, Hampstead Road, N.W., Pianoforte Maker, JAMES
MONINGTON, of 32, William Street, N.W., Pianoforte Maker, and
-JOHN-WESTON,--of- 32,-William--Street,-N.-W.,-Pianoforte-Maker,-send.
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in
the thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said David Rogers, James
Monington, and John Weston, Her special licence, that we, the said
David Rogers, James Monington, and John Weston, executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said David Rogers,
James Monington, and John Weston, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACINGS FOR PIANO-
FORTE BACKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
David Rogers, James Monington, and John Weston, executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was

page_text: 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 David Rogers, James Monington,
and John Weston, 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 statement :-
What we claim as new and original is the manner in which the metal
and wood are joined, and which is done by taking a bracing as at present
used, only shorter, and making it up to the full or proper length
required with metal, which is made to receive the end of the bracing,
and they are screwed together, and this we claim to form a perfect com-
pensating bracing, the temperature acting contrarywise on wood and
metal, cold contracting metal and expanding wood, heat expanding
metal and contmeting wood.
D. ROGERS.
(L.S.)
JAMES MONINGTON.
(L.S.)
JOHN WESTON.
(L.S.)