IMPROVEMENTS IN COCKS OR TAPS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Verinder Kiddle, of 4, Elder Street.
Norton Folgate, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COCKS OR TAPS."
Sealed the 9th April 1853, and dated the 2nd February 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Verinder
Kiddle at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd February 1853.
I, JOHN VERINDER KIDDLE, of 4, Elder Street, Norton Folgate, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COCKS OR TAPS " to be as follows:-
This Invention is principally intended for use at chemical works,
and consists of constructing the barrel of a cock of lead or other
metals, and the plug of earthenware, glass, or porcelain, and it is
the combination of these two materials which constitutes the
peculiarity of this Invention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said John Verinder Kiddle in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 2nd August 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN VERINDER KIDDLE, of 4, Elder Street, Norton Folgate, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Verinder Kiddle, Her special
licence that I, the said John Verinder Kiddle, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Verinder
Kiddle, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN COCKS OR TAPS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Verinder Kiddle, by an in-
strument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 John Verinder Kiddle, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be, particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention is principally intended for use at chemical works,
and consists of constructing the barrel of a cock of lead or other
metal, and the plug of earthenware, glass, or porcelain, and it is the
combination of these two materials which constitutes the peculiarity
of this Invention. And in order that the same may be more fully

page_text: understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe
the means pursued by me; and I would state that I prefer to use
lead for making the barrels of the cocks, but other metals may be
used when the fluid will not prejudicially act on such metals; and I
cast or form the barrels of cocks in the ordinary manner, and in
place of metal plugs, I fit into such metal barrels plugs of earthen-
ware, glass, or porcelain, which I make in the ordinary forms. And
I would state that I am aware that plugs of cocks have before been
made of earthenware, glass, and porcelain, but in such cases the
barrels have been made of the same material as the plugs. I do not
therefore claim to make the plugs of cocks of carthenware, glass, or
porcelain generally; my Invention consisting in combining earthen-
ware, glass, or porcelain plugs of cocks with barrels of cocks made
of lead or other metal.
The barrels being formed as is well understood, and as if to receive
metal plugs, and the earthenware, glass, or porcelain plugs having
been formed in the ordinary manner, as if to be used in earthenware,
glass, or porcelain barrels, such plugs are to be fitted or ground into
the lead or other metal barrels, and it is the combining of lead or
other metal barrels of cocks with plugs of cocks made of earthen-
ware, glass or porcelain, which constitutes the peculiarity of the
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Verinder Kiddle, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of August,
in the year of our Lord One tliousand eight hundred and
fifty-three.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
JOHN V. KIDDLE. (L.S.)