MAKING PIPES, SPOUTS, TROUGHS, AND CISTERN HEADS OF MATERIALS NOT HERETOFORE USED AND APPLIED TO AND FOR SUCH PURPOSES
Year: 1791

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WYATT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,"
liv His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Eleventh day of May, in the thirty-first year of His reign, give and grant
into me, the said Charles Wyatt, His especial licence that I, the said Charles
Wyatt, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
Liso, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "MAKING PIPES, SPOUTS, TROUGHS, AND CISTERN
HEADS OF MATERIALS NOT HERETOFORE USED AND APPLIED TO AND FOR SUCH
PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patents there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said Charles Wyatt, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
one calender month next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
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NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Wyatt, do hereby declare that my said Invention consists in making
pipes, spouts, troughs, and cistern heads of sheets or plates of metal, sold under
and known by the name of tinned copper sheets, which sheets or plates consist
of copper or brass, or a compound mictal of which copper is the basis, covered
and combined with tin or lead, or a semi-metal, or a compound of two or more
of those substances, and for the Invention of which sheets or plates of metal so

page_text: covered and combined, His Majesty did, by His Letters Patent, bearing date
on or about the Thirteenth day of March, in the thirtieth year of His reign,
give and grant unto William Collins, of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey,
Engine Maker, and me, the said. Charles Wyatt, His especial licence to use,
exercise, and, vend the same during the term, and in manner as is therein
particularly exprossod,
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The pipas are to be formed and manufactured in the same manner and by
the same methods as copper pipes formed out of sheets or plates are now
usually mado; and in order to form and manufacture the said pipes expe-
ditiously, the sheets or plates of the covered and combined metal, herein-
before specified under the name of tinned copper sheets, must first be out
proper form and dimensions, and then turned or formed upon a maundrill
or other instrument of the shape and size required, until the edges mest, so
as to admit of being joined together, either by folding, soldering, or rivetting.
The troughs, spouts, and cistern heads are maile and composed of the same
sheets or plates of covered and combined metal, called as aforesaid, tinned
copper sheets, and are first to be out of proper form and dimensions, and then
worked and joined together, in the same mariner and by the same methods as
are used and practiced in working and joining together copper sheets for the
same purposes, until they are brought into the shape and size required; but
the material part of the Invention is the application of the aforesaid metal,
called tinned copper sheets, to the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Wyatt, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of June, One thousand seven hundred and