PATENT INFORMATION
INVENTOR: BAILEY, FRANCIS
TITLE OF INVENTION: PUNCHES FOR MAKING IMPRESSIONS
US PATENT CLASS: 83/651

PHILADELPHIA PA 29 JAN 1791

The United States

To all whom these Presents shall come … Greeting …

Whereas Francis Bailey of the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, Printer, hath invented certain Methods not before known or used performing Punches, by which to impress on the … Matrices of printing Types, whether such Types be for letters or Devices as well as to impress on any Metal or other Substance capable of receiving and sustaining Impressions of various Marks which are difficult to be counterfeited, and the said Invention appears to be useful and improving. These are therefore in pursuance of the Act, entitled, “An Act to promote the progress of Useful Arts,” to grant to the said Francis Bailey, his heirs, Administrators and Assigns, for the Term of fourteen years, the sole and exclusive Right and Liberty of using and vending to others the said Improvement, according to the true Intent and … Meaning of the Aforesaid …

In Testimony whereof I have caused these Letters to be made patent, and the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Given under my Hand at the City of Philadelphia this Twenty ninth Day of January in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety one and of the Independence of the United States of America the Fifteenth.

Type Patent

Delivered to the within named Francis Bailey this thirty first of January 1791.

(signed) Thomas Jefferson

City of Philadelphia January 29th, 1794 …
I do hereby testify that the foregoing letters patent were delivered to me
In pursuance of the Act entitled “An Act to promote the progress of useful
Arts,” that I have examined the same, and find them conformable to
The said Act.

(signed) Edmund Randolph
Attorney General of the
United States

(signed) George Washington
By the President

(signed) Thomas Jefferson

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