A METHOD OF MAKING PLANE IRONS, AND MAKING AND FASTENING TO PROPER HANDLES HOES AND ALL SORTS OF TROWELS, FROM ROLLED STEEL
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WASTEL
CLIFFE, of West Bromwish, in the County of Stafford, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Ninth day of December, in the thirty-fourth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Wastel Cliff, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His special licence that I, the said Wastel Cliffe, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within Eng-
land, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A
METHOD OF MAKING PLANE IRONS, AND MAKING AND FASTENING TO PROPER
HANDLES HOES AND ALL SORTS OF TROWELS, FROM ROLLED STEEL;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Wastel
Cliffe, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Wastel Cliffe, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Method of
Making Plane Irons, and Making and Fastening to proper Handles Hoes and
all Sorts of Trowels, from Rolled Steel, is described in the manner following;
that is to say:

page_text: First, take a piece of steel and roll it to the proper thickness of a trowol
plate, then cut it with a chisel or shears into the form of a trowel; then punch,
or drill and countersink one or more holes to fix on the tang; then harden it
by making it red hot in a furnace, and putting it into a liquid or composition
to be made of oil (commonly called sweet or pale oil), rosin, and tallow, which
liquid or composition make as follows:-Take twenty-eight pounds weight of
rosin, fifty-six pounds weight of tallow, and cight gallons of oil, which mix and
boil together; then temper the plate by heating it over a fire till it becomes
nearly the colour of a dark yellow, and then fix on the tang with screws, or pins,
or dovetails, which tang is to be forged of iron or steel, to be punched or drilled
for the pins or screws; and stamped for the raising of the dovetails for brisk
and pointing trowels. And for the plaistering trowels the tangs are to be forged,
or rolled, or stamp'd, to raise one or more dovetails, which are to be used only
to fasten the handle to the plate, and then to be set and ground.
The hoes are made on the same principles as the trowels; and the Specifica-
tion of the plane irons is as follows:-Take a piece of steel rolled in a twilled
or taper form, then cut it with a chisel, or stamp, or shears, into the shape of a
-plane iron, and harden and temper it after the same manner as the trowels and
hocs, in a similar liquid or composition.
In witness whereof, I, the said Wastel Cliffe, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand coven hundred and ninety thro
in Chancery
Extraordinary.
WASTEL CLIFFE. (L.s.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirty-first day of December,
in the above mentioned, the aforesaid Wastel Cliffo came before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
'Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Soventh day of January in the your One thousand soven