GB Patent: GB-161,800,010
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| Engine for cutting iron
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Patentee:
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| Clement Dawbeney (exact or similar names) - London, England |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Dec. 11, 1618 |
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Complete specification for Dawbeney's patent
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| In 1588 a 12-year patent, GB-158,800,001, was granted to Bevis Bulmer for his water-powered engine for cutting iron into bars for making nails and wool-carding combs; in 1606 the patent was extended, and Bevis became Sir Bevis. When Sir Bevis Bulmer died in 1615, the rights to the invention passed to Clement Dawbeney, who improved the invention and then obtained this updated patent. "A spiall priviledge graunted to Clement Dawbeney, gent., for terme of 21 years, for the sole using of an engine, to be wrought withall by water, for the cutting of iron into small barres for rodds to serve for the making of nayles, and for the saving of the waste that commonlie grewe upon cutting iron into small barres."A letter from Francis Bacon, dated 27 January 1616. "According to your lordship's reference of the 12th of June last, I have considered the Patent of Clement Dawbeney, gentleman, for slitting of iron bars into rods. And I have had before me the patentee that now is, and some of the nailers and blacksmiths that complained against the same, whereupon it pleased your lordships to call in the said patent. Bur upon examination of the business I find the complaint to be utterly unjust, and was first stirred up by one Burrell, master carpenter to the East India Company: who hath already himself begun to set up the like engine in Ireland, and therefore endeavoured to overthrow the said Patent, the better to vent his own iron to his further benefit and advantage; whereas the nailers and blacksmiths themselves do all affirm that they are now supplied by the patentee with as much good and serviceable iron or rather better than heretofore they have been, and the said patent hath been of much use to the kingdom in general, and likewise very beneficial to themselves in their trades: and therefore your lordships may be pleased to suffer him quietly to enjoy it without any further interruption; and to this did Burrell himself and the opposers willingly condescend: which nevertheless I submit to the wisdom of this most honourable board." Given the dates, the referenced patent of Mr. Dawbeney must have been the extended patent granted to Bevis Bulmer.From the paper "The development of the iron industry in south Staffordshire in the 17th century: history and myth", by P. W. King, Transactions of Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society XXXVIII (1999 for 1996-7), 59-76. "A second patent for slitting was obtained by Clement Dawbeney of London in 1618, despite the opposition of London nailers and ironmongers, who were nevertheless reported to be being supplied with iron from his mill 'better than heretofore'. James Lasher and Delionel Russell must have been Dawbeney's sale licensees, for it was Dawbeney, rather than Lasher and Russell, who sought to enforce the patent in the following decade..." |
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