IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CUPS, BOWLS, SAUCERS, AND OTHER DISHED ARTICLES AND CASES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CUPS, BOWLS, SAUCERS, AND OTHER DISHED ARTICLES
AND CASES."-A communication from abroad by Frederic Wilhelm
Marx, of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 13th January 1862.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CUPS, BOWLS, SAUCERS, AND OTHER DISHED ARTICLES
AND CASES," (communicated to me from abroad by Frederic Wilhelm Marx,
of Paris, France,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing cups, bowls, saucers, and other
like articles, as also cases of leather, velvet, silk, and other like materials, as.
hereafter described.
I cut out from a skin or other material two discs, and if desired, cement or
fix on the back of each of the discs, paper, muslin, cloth, or other strengthening
material. Each of the discs, alone or strengthened, is afterwards stamped in
relief, or in intaglio with any pattern desired; the two discs thus prepared are
placed over, are one within another, and the edges or closed or ornamented by
a metal moulding.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th July 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence, that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF CUPS, BOWLS,
SAUCERS, AND OTHER DISHED ARTICLES, AND CASES," (communication from
Frederic Wilhelm Marx, of Paris, France,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 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 I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing cups, bowls, saucers, and other
dished articles, as also cases of leather, velvet, silk, and other like materials,
as hereafter described.

page_text: I cut out from a skin or other material, two discs, and if desired, cement
or fix on the back of each of the discs, paper, muslin, cloth, or other
strengthening material, or I apply a stiffening agent, such as shell lac. Each
of the discs, alone or strengthened, is afterwards stamped in relief, or in intaglio,
with any pattern desired; the two discs thus prepared are placed over, or one
within another, and the edges are closed and ornamented by a metal moulding,
or not, according to the nature of the article.
For cases, the stamped discs are superposed and united by a hinge at back
and snap in front.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings show the two discs which
are cut out of leather or any other suitable material; c, c, Figures 3 and 4, are
the discs of canvas or other strengthening material cemented to the back of the
discs. The discs are stamped to the desired shape, as shewn at Figures 5 and 6,
by means of suitable presses or dies, which latter are plain or engraved,
according to the bowl or other dished article to be manufactured. The discs
are then placed one within the other, and the edges are clipped and held
together by a metal moulding or bead, as shown at d, Figure 7. Bowls thus
made may be mounted on a stand, as shewn at Figure 8. By reversing the
discs and uniting them by means of a hinge or hinges, boxes, cases, and other
articles of capacity may be made, or the discs may be stamped in dies or
moulds shaped in such manner that they may be made to form a hat, as shewn
at Figure 9, a cap, as shown at Figure 10, or a shako or "kepi," as shewn at
Figure 11. By this Invention an article is formed of two thicknesses of
leather or other material, which may be used plain or may be ornamented by
silvering, gilding, metallic mounts, and in various other ways.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the manufacture
of cups, bowls, saucers, and other dished articles, and cases of two thicknesses
of leather or other material, strengthened or not by some fabric or stiffening
agent, by means of stamps or discs, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of July One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)