The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

THE RIVAL FIREPROOF SAFE

TANN'S PATENT FIREPROOF SAFES

J. G. HARRISON and Co. beg to call the attention of the
public to an advertisement which Mr. Miller has published for
some time in the Liverpool papers, setting forth that the Court
of Chancery had granted an injunction prohibiting the sale of
safes made according to " Tann's Patent." The perseverance
with which Mr. Milner still proclaims an assertion so manifestly
untrue prevents further forbearance on the part of J. G. H. and
Co., and compels them to repeat that his attempt to invalidate
" Tann's Patent" has been completely unsuccessful. In proof
of this, J. G. H. and Co. would quote the following extracts
from the judgment of his honour, Vice-Chancellor Sir George
Turner, given so recently as the 15th instant, in the cause of
Milner v. Harrison. His honour says, " I have very carefully
perused the affidavits on this part of the case, and I am fully
satisfied that no order for commitment can be founded upon
it. Any comments upon these affidavits would involve obser-
vations calculated to affect the characters of- the parties, and I
therefore abstain from commenting on them." His honour
also stated, referring to a safe made according to Tann's Patent,
" This safe is proved to have been -manufactured according to
' Tann's Patent,' and the question, therefore, is, whether the
manufacture under Tann's,Pfitent' is an infringement of Mil-
ner's patent. This questi has not been tried in the action at
law, for it is in proof be eme that the safes which formed the
subject of that actin were not manufactured according to
Tann's Patent, and herefore, if lam to make an order for
committing this Pendant I must do so on my own opinion,
unaided by anything which has passed at law. lam not pre-
pared to go-that length; it would be to affirm that Milner's
patent applies in all cases where the materials interposed
between the boxes evolve steam on being affected by heat,
which is certainly not a necessary construction of Milner's
patent, nor, as I think, a necessary corollary from what has
already passed at law. The case cannot, I think, be nut more
favourably for the plaintiff than to suppose that the action, in
this case, which was brought against the defendant had been
brought against Tann, and that the action having succeeded,
this bill had been filed to restrain Tann from manufacturing
according to his patent ; and in that position of the case I
think the court would not have granted an injunction until after
a further trial at law, even independently of the plaintiff's
conduct in having permitted Tann so long to continue manu-
facturing under his patent, and certainly not after such a long
acquiescence by the plaintiff; and, yet, what the plaintiff asks
by this motion is in effect to stop Tann's trade, by committing
Tann's agent." J. G. Harrison and Co. have only to add in
conclusion, that until Mr. Milner proves that Tann's patent is
an infringement of his patent, he is bound, in common honesty,
not to publish statements which convey most inaccurate im-
pressions. Messrs. Tann have used their patent with success
for upwards of six years, without a word ofcomplaint from Mr.
Milner or any other party ; and, up to the present moment all
the proceedings taken by Mr. Milner have failed to invalidate
" Tann's Patent."
14, Lord-street, Liverpool, Jan. 29, 1852.

THE PRIZE MEDAL, AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION,
HAS BEEN AWARDED TO TANN'S PATENT FIRE
AND THIEF PROOF SAFES, AND ALSO TO TANN'S
-PATENT RELIANCE LOCKS.
Warranted to bear more heat, without injury to their contents
than any other safe made.
They have been publicly tested in Liverpool, London, and
Glasgow, for a space of time longer in each instance than any
Safe of similar dimensions has ever yet been subjected to.
Makers to the Government, by recommendation of the Engi•
veers to the Honourable Board of Ordnance.
" Office of Ordnance, 25th June, 1851.
" Gentlemen,—The Engineers of the Honourable Board of
Ordnance have it in command to notify to you the Board's
acceptance of your Contract, dated the 24th instant, to con-
struct Two of your Safes for Money, &c., (to enclosed specifi-
cations,) wnich are to be delivered at the Tower of London
within two months from the date of order.
" To Messrs. Tann, Patentees."
N.B.—These Safes weighed Two Tons each.

J. G. HARRISON and CO.,
14,—LORD-STREET, LIVERPOO4-14

Prices and full particulars of the principle, and certificates
of tests, to be had, URATIS, on application ; also, verbatim
Reports of the Judgment of Sir George Turner, to which
J. G. H. and Co. beg respectfully to direct the attention of
the Public.