IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOCKS FOR SCREWING AND CUTTING IRON PIPES, BOLTS, AND OTHER SIMILAR USES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Leech,, of Goat Lane, in the City of
Norwich, in the County of Norfolk, Gas Fitter and Bell Hanger, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOCKS FOR
SCREWING AND CUTTING IRON PIPES, BOLTS, AND OTHER SIMILAR USES."
Sealed the 19th August 1870, and dated the 23rd February 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Leech at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd February 1870.
I, GEORGE LEECH, of Goat Lane, in the City of Norwich, in the
County of Norfolk, Gas Fitter and Bell Hanger, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUPActure of
STOCKS FOR SCREWING AND CUTTING IRON PIPES, BOLTS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
USES," be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the method of constructing
and manufacturing stocks so that they may be taken to pieces and
render them portable and capable of receiving certain dies, for screwing
and cutting iron tubes of different sizes, and likewise to screw iron bolts,
also brass, copper, and steel.
This small portable stock is constructed to screw and cut from one-
eighth inch to two-inch iron tubes, and it combines all the advantages
of other ordinary stocks as those made in solid wrought or cast iron.

page_text: This stock takes the place of the three stocks now in use. When taken
to pieces it can be enclosed in a small tin case of the following
dimensions, viz., twenty inches long and two and a half inches diameter.
And that my Invention may be clearly understood reference is made
to accompanying Drawings, in which,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Leech in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd August 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
LEECH, of Goat Lane, in the City of Norwich, in the County of Norfolk,
Gas Fitter and Bell Hanger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Leech, Her special
licence that I, the said George Leech, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Leech, my 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
THE MANUFACTURE OF STOCKS FOR SCREWING AND CUTTING IRON PIPES, BOLTS, AND
OTHER SIMILAR USES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said George Leech, 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
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page_text: 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 George Leech, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:---
This Invention consists of improvements in the construction of stocks
so as to render them portable and capable of receiving certain dies for
screwing and cutting iron tubes of different sizes, and likewise to screw
iron bolts, or brass, copper, and steel.
This small portable stock is constructed to screw and cut from an
eighth of an inch to two-inch iron tube, and it combines all the uses and
advantages of other ordinary stocks, such as those made in solid wrought
or cast iron, and it is arranged and constructed so as to supply the place
of the three separate and distinct stocks now in use. When taken to
pieces it can be enclosed in a small tin case of the following dimensions,
twenty inches long and two and a half inches diameter.
That this my Invention may be clearly understood reference is made
to the accompanying Drawings, of which the following is a description :-
A shews the stock and dies; H, H, the two handles; G, the wrench;
I, I, the two side arms; B, the two-inch die; C and D, the tube
cutter; E, the two-inch die shewing the two top wrenches; F, the tin
case for stocks when taken to pieces; A shews stocks in case.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the mode of
carrying the same into effect, what I claim and desire to be secured to
me by Letters Patent is, the said Invention for improvements in the
manufacture of stocks for screwing and cutting iron pipes, bolts, and
other similar uses, substantially as herein described and as shewn on the
accompanying Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Leech, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this 15th day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
GEORGE LEECH. (L.S.)