IMPROVEMENTS IN COMMUNICATING BETWEEN PLACES SEPARATED BY WATER
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
PHILIP PLRCEVAL, of East Hoisley, in the County of Surrey, Clerk, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Пer present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Gicat Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third
day of April, in the ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Hei hens
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Philip Perceval, my
exois, adinors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Arthur Philip Perceval, my cñors, adînors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur Philip Perceval, my exors,
adors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times during the term of years therem expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in the Islands of Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and in all Her Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMMUNICATING
BETWEEN PLACES SEPARATED BY WATER;" in which said Letters Patent 15.
contained a proviso that 1, the said Arthur Philip Perceval, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, to be inrolled in Iler said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in' compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Arthur Philip Perceval, do hereby declare. that the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say
First, when the electric wire or wires has or have been effectually secured
from water, whether by alternate layers of thread and gum (caoutchouc or any
other), or by any other flexible processes, enclose the whole in a necklace of
iron rings in contact with each other, or of iron sockets dovetailing one into
the other, coil it on the deck like any other cable, and throw it overboard in
tiansit.
Note a. When less than two wires are so enclosed, surround the necklace
with a spiral cord.
Note
The substance of the necklace may vary according to the nature
(hard or soft, rough or smooth) of the bottom on which it has to lie.
Second, where this means of communication is unavailable, transfer tho
apparatus for conveying signals used in the semaphores on land to hulls,
Circular, polygonal, or ordinary; and fix them at proper distances, securing
them when necessary by mushroom anchors. The hulls in all cases to be
of sufficient size to afford accommodation for the men necessary to work the
signals, and where desirable to be fitted up as floating batteries.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Philip Perceval, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-thnd day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
ARTHUR PHILIP PERCEVAL. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Arthur Philip Perceval came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.