Specification of James Archibald Jaques : surgical instruments.

  • Jaques, James Archibald.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of James Archibald Jaques : surgical instruments. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jaques Sf Banks^ Improvements in Surgical Instruments» SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Janies Archibald Jaques and John Banks in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 31st July 1872. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PEESENTS SHALL COME, we, James 6 Archibald Jaques, of Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex, Chemist, and John Banks, of Colney Hatch Hoad, Wood Green, in the same County, Surgical Instrument Maker, send greeting. WHEEEAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the year 10 of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty- fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said James Archibald Jaques and John Banks, Her special licence that we, the said James Archibald Jaques and John Banks, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the 15 said James Archibald Jaques and John Banks, our executors, adminis¬ trators, 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 20 Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for ‘‘ Improvements in the Manu¬ facture OF Surgical Instruments,’’ upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said James Archibald Jaques and John Banks, our 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 25 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 James Archibald Jaques, on behalf 30 of myself and of the said John Banks, 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 (that is to say) :— Our Invention of improvements in the manufacture of surgical instru- 85 ments relates to that class of instruments (either tubular or solid) which