FOR REMOVING OR CONVEYING CONDENSED WATER FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE ROOFS OF HOTHOUSES, GREENHOUSES, AND ALL. OTHER HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS
Year: 1814

page_text: JORDEN'S SPECIFICATION:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
STUBBS JORDEN, of Birmingham, in the. County of Warwick, Patent Sash
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty: King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Seventh day of June, in the fifty-fourth year of His reign, did give and grant
unto ine, the said John Stubbs Jorden, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His
special licence, full power, sole priviledge and. authority, that I, the, said. John
Stubbs Jorden, my exors, adññors, and assigns, during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and. vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new
Invention "FOR REMOVING OR CONVEYING CONDENSED WATER FROM THE INTERIOR
OF THE ROOFS OF HOTHOUSES, GREENHOUSES, AND ALL. OTHER HORTICULTURAL
BUILDINGS;" in which Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said John Stubbs Jorden, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said

page_text: Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Stubbs Jorden, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and declare my Invention or principle is intended for the
purpose of removing or conveying the condensed water from the interior of
the roofs of hothouses, greenhouses, and all kinds of horticultural buildings,
by the addition of an horizontal bar, made of metal or any composition of
metals, placed above or below the rabbit, and connected with the perpendicular
bar heretofore used by me; and also for a method of applying a superior
perpendicular bar, which for distinction sake I call a waterscape bar, and
which I commonly use in the making of skylights, sashes, shop fronts, church
windows, and every other description or denomination of windows; and also
for the method usually adopted by me in connecting my perpendicular and
horizontal bars applied to these lights of any shape or form to which my said
Invention may be adapted. The more fully to explain this Invention I call them
waterscape bars, intended to convey the condensed water formed upon the glass
or bars in the interior of the hothouses, greenhouses, and all kinds of horticul-
tural buildings, into the gutter, groove, or channel affixed to the outhouses or
other buildings to which my said Invention may be applied, and which I per-
form in the following manner :-I take a piece of metal or composition of metals
that can be cast, rolled, drawn, or forged, of a suitable thickness, and which
I fold or bend by the aid of machinery or otherwise into the shape required
for my bar, forming two grooves or channels therein; or I make a bar of a
similar form or shape by soldering, brazing, or uniting with rivets, or by any
other means, two or more pieces of metal or composition of metals, or by
forging or casting, or by any other method by which I can form or make
these bars with the waterscape grooves or channels to receive the condensed
water or any water that may pass or escape through the putty or glazing in
the lights; and I vary or alter the form or shape of my bar as the specific
purpose to which I apply my said Invention may from time to time require.
I sometimes plate or cover the bar with silver, tin, lead, or any other metal
or composition of metals, and I occasionally gild, paint, or varnish them, as
the nature of their application requires. To give additional strength and
security to the lights, I apply a second or additional horizontal bar to the one
I have heretofore used, and I perforate the perpendicular bars above or below
the rabbit as best suits my purpose, and I pass an horizontal bar through the
hole pierced in the perpendicular bars above and clear of the waterscape
grooves or channels, and I fix a second horizontal bar, of greater strength and

page_text: support, underneath the other horizontal bar, and by means of loops,, links,
screws, or rivets, or by brazing or soldering, I connect the two horizontal bars
together under the centre of the panes of glass, leaving a space betwixt the per-
pendicular bar and the lower horizontal bar sufficient for any condensed water to
escape without any obstruction from or connection with the lower horizontal bar
and the perpendicular bar. I make these bars of metal or any composition of
metals, or of wood, or wood and metal united, or of any substance or composition
of substances, or of any form or shape adapted to the purpose or object of my
Invention, and which bars I fix into rims of deal, oak, or mahogany, or any
other wood, or in iron, copper, brass, or any metal or composition of metals.
In the application of my said Invention or principal, I use rafters, which I
make of cast iron, wrought iron, copper, brass, or any other metal or compo-
sition of metals, to which I apply the waterscape bars or grooves, as occasion
requires, and which I make of lead, tin, copper, or any other metal or com-
position of metals, and apply the same to the under side of the rafters to
receive such water as may condense on the cast-iron or metal rafters, or may
escape or pass betwixt the lights and the rafters into the gutter, groove, or
channel attached to the hothouse or other building to which my said Invention
may be applied; and I also occasionally use or apply the moulding under-
neath my rafters to prevent the water or steam which may arise, evaporate,
exbale, pass, or escape, from condensing, and which moulding I make of wood,
leather, papier machee, or any other substance or composition of substances
(except metal or composition of metals).
In witness whereof, I, the said John Stubbs Jorden, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
JOHN STUBBS (L.S.) JORDEN.
Sealed, delivered, and acknowledged
by the within-named John Stubbs
Jorden, at Birmingham aforesaid,
this Fifth day of August, 1814,
being first duly stamped, in the
presence of

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifth day of August, in the
year of our Lord. 1814, the aforesaid John Stabbs Jorden came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowleged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the. Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fourteen.