IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GARDEN POTS
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
BROWN, of Surbiton Hill, near Kingston, in the County of Surrey, Tile and
Brick Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fifteenth day of November, in the sixth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert
Brown, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Robert Brown, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Robert Brown, my exors, adñññors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times 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
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GARDEN POTS;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Robert Brown, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her 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 thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Brown, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and

page_text: ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):-
My Invention consists in a mode of making double garden pots, or that
description of pot where one pot is placed within another, leaving a space
between them to contain water, such water filtering through the inner pot,
giving nutriment to the plant contained therein. I would here observe, that
heretofore garden pots of this description have been so made that the water
between the spaces has been exposed to the atmosphere, consequently, when
subjected to a high degree of temperature the water soon evaporated, and the
pots required constantly re-filling, and little or no benefit has been derived from
their use. Now the object of my Invention is, so to construct garden pots
that the water shall not be exposed to the effects of the .atmosphere, but that
by entirely closing the top of the water space the only escape of the water
will be through the pores of the pots, consequently a more uniform supply of
water will be provided for the plants, and much less attention will be found

page_text: claim is, the so making double flower pots that the space between the inner
and outer pots containing the water shall be entirely closed from the
atmosphere.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
1
One thousand eight hundred and forty-three."
Enrolled the Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-three.