THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONDUIT PIPES AND TUBES FOR SEWERS, DRAINS, CONDUITS, GAS, AND OTHER PURPOSES." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Montague John Turner and Marcus William Turner,
of Woodcote, in the County of Surrey, Esquires, for the Invention of
"THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONDUIT PIPES AND TUBES FOR SEWERS, DRAINS,
CONDUITS, GAS, AND OTHER PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Montague John Turner
and Marcus William Turner at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 17th December 1857.
We, MONTAGUE JOHN TURNER and MARCUS WILLIAM TURNER, of Woodcote,
in the County of Surrey, Esquires, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONDUIT PIPES AND TUBES FOR SEWERS,
DRAINS, CONDUITS, GAS, AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The manufacture and moulding of glass into conduits, tubes, pipes, and
drains, watercloset pans and pipes, & casting and moulding variegated glass
into mantlepieces and cornices. From the indestructible nature of glass and
the resistance which it offers to all decaying substances and time, being
totally exempt from corrosing or absorption, and from its exceedingly smooth
and hard surface not admitting of obstructions, furring, or secretions, as at
present found to prevail in brick courses, iron and earthenware pipes would
always be kept clean with an ordinary supply of water for sewerage and
gas pipes; this would be found of estimable value as a sanitary measure
alone, because with glass there can never be any escape or leakage of either
obnoxious and unwholesome matter or liquid, or the emission of effluvia
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page_text: whatever; no absorption could take place in the surrounding earth of the
deliterious liquids which do largely escape from the sewers at present, and
are. found to impregnate the various wells, especially in the metropolis,
rendering the water unwholesome and unfit for human consumption. Bricks
and iron decay and rust, and in no very lengthened period waste into holes,
and then become choaked up and infested with rats; in warm weather their
pernicious essences rise into the air. Strong glass will be found to obviate
all these defects and to resist also the ravages of time, and may be as easily
inspected if required at any time as the iron tubing or brick courses, the
joints being merely cemented and fitted with slight shoulders one into the
other of easy lengths. They would be found as little liable to break as iron
tubes at present in use, and less expensive, and never to wear out. As
regards its use for watercloset pans and pipes, it would be kept casier clean
and free from fur, and not at all liable to crack in frosty weather. For
montelpieces, plain or variageted cornices, and ornamental works for ceiling
and fitting for rooms, elegance, brillancy, lightness, and economy, would
certainly recommend its use to the public; and it is obvious that for water
tanks and pipes its advantages would be very great, inasmuch as it could
be kept clean with so little trouble and care.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Montague Jolin
Turner and Marcus William Turner in the Great Seal Patent Office on
23rd June 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, MONTAGUE
JOHN TURNER and MARCUS WILLIAM TURNER, of Woodcote, in the County of
Surrey, Esquires, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reiga, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
tho said Montague John Turner and Marcus William Turner, Her special
licence, that we, the said Montague John Turner and Marcus William
Turner, our oxocutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Montague John Turner and Marcus William Turner; our executors,
administrators, and assigus, should at any time agree with, and no others,

page_text: 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 Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONDUIT PIPES AND TUBES
FOR SEWERS, DRAINS, CONDUITS, GAS, AND OTHER PURPOSES.' upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Montague John Turner and Marcus
William Turner, or one of us, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, or one of our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Marcus William Turner, on behalf of
myself and the said Montague John Turner, 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 :-
My Invention consists in the manufacturing of glass formed into conduit
tubes or pipes and drains for the conveyance of water and gas and for the
main drainage for the sewerage of towns, for drainage pipes for stables, for
watercloset pans and pipes, for mantelpieces in plain and variegated colours,
chimney flues and chimney tops, and for the cornices and dressings for
ceilings, and for pillars and columns as supports. The formation of the pipes,
drains, watercourses, and gas pipes will be accomplished by the making and
casting of hard block glass into moulds of the required size and in various
lengths to suit the purpose for which it may be required, lipped and grooved
at either end in the manner of screw to prevent leakage or escape, with or
without cement. The pans and tanks will be simple casting.
.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marcus William Turner, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
MARCUS W. TURNER. (L.6.)