IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL HODS AND VASES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE SCOOPS AND SHOVELS TO BE UBED THEREWITH.
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Goodwin Cunnold, of Ipswich, in the
County of Suffolk, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN COAL HODS AND VASES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE SCOOPS AND SHOVELS TO BE
UBED THEREWITH.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Goodwin
Cunnold at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th November 1871.
I, WILLIAM GOODWIN CUNNOLD, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL HODS AND VASES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE SCOOPS AND
SHOVELS TO BE USED THEREWITH," to be as follows, that is to say :—
The object of this Invention is to deaden the sound and lessen the
wear caused by the coals striking or rubbing against the surface of coal
hods and vases of all kinds, and of the scoops and shovels used there-
with.

page_text: To carry out my Invention I line the coal hod, vase, or other article
for containing the coal, and also the scoop or shovel to be used there-
with with kamptulicon, felt, cork, india-rubber, leather, paper, cloth, gutta
percha, or other like material. The said materials are fixed to the said
articles to be lined by means of glue or other suitable adhesive com-
position, by turning down the metal edges of the article over the said
lining, or by means of rivets, screws, and metal bushings. By this
means when coals are placed in or removed from the hod or vase instead
of striking against the metal or wood surface of the hod or vase, and the
scoop or shovel as heretofore and causing a noise they will strike
against the elastic lining, by which but little noise will be caused.
These improved hods or vases are of great service in sick rooms, studies,
public buildings, and other places.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Goodwin Cunnold in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 15th May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GOODWIN CUNNOLD, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her s
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Goodwin Cunnold, Her
special licence that I, the said William Goodwin Cunnold, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Good-
win Cunnold, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL HODS AND VASES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE SCOOPS AND
SHOVELS TO BE USED THEREWITH,” upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said William Goodwin Cunnold, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands

page_text: and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, 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 William Goodwin Cunnold, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :-
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The object of this Invention is to deaden the sound and lessen the
wear caused by the coals striking or rubbing against the surface of coal
hods and vases of all kinds, and of the scoops and shovels used there-
with.
To carry out my Invention I line the coal hod, vase, or other article
for containing the coal (whether such article be made of wood or metal,
or of wood lined with metal), and also the scoop or shovel to be used
therewith with kamptulicon, linoleum, felt, cork, india-rubber, leather,
paper, cloth, gutta percha, or other like material. The said materials
are fixed to the said articles to be lined by means of glue or other
suitable adhesive composition, by turning down the metal edges of the
said articles over the said lining, by means of nails, screws, and metal
bushings, or by clips, grooves, or other suitable means. By this means
when coals are placed in or removed from the hod or vase, instead of
striking against the metal or wood surface of the hod or vase and the
scoop or shovel as heretofore, and causing a noise, they will strike against
the elastic lining by which but little noise will be caused. These
improved hods or vases are of great service in sick rooms, studies, public
buildings, and other places.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Goodwin Cunnold, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of May, in
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WILLIAM G. OUNNOLD. (L.S.)